the @popcollin reviews

Based on the best-selling novel by Jessica Knoll (who also wrote the screenplay), this pulpy drama stars Mila Kunis as a boarding school rape victim who also survived a school shooting and is now dealing with the fallout. Despite Kunis’ hefty (and possibly career-best) performance, it’s tough to shake the […]

Sylvester Stallone (yep, he’s still kicking it at age 76) stars in this superhero flick about a long-ago crusader living in anonymity in the fictional Granite City… until a precocious kid discovers his true identity. Good timing, because a local bad guy is starting to wreak havoc. It’s not a […]

While certainly relevant and ultimately haunting, this satiric dram-com written and directed by Quinn Shephard is a difficult watch. Zoey Deutch turns heads as Danni, as a schlubby loser who dreams of getting some Insta likes when all of a sudden fame finds her. While lying about being on a […]

Take Kevin Hart’s ‘Central Intelligence’ and swap out Dwayne Johnson for Woody Harrelson, and you’re there… except it’s about hitmen, not spies. Hart yet again plays the woefully inadequate fish out of water and spends the better part of the film whining about how he can’t do certain tasks. Sure […]

When is a Hallmark movie not a Hallmark movie? When it’s trite and gooey and silly… and on Netflix, of course. Not to be confused (or maybe so!) with the wine-themed “The Perfect Pairing”, which hit Hallmark in January, this one finds a wine broker played by Victoria Justice at […]

The easiest comparison is to the Norwegian instant classic ‘The Worst Person in the World’, but this French effort isn’t quite in the same league despite being also centered around a flighty young single woman who steals the show out from under everyone else. While a much more beautiful film […]

The third installment in the ‘Fantastic Beasts’ trilogy rebounds quite a bit from the sluggish second entry but still can’t come close to holding a candle to the original Harry Potter films. In and of itself, it’s not a terrible film (thanks in large part to Jude Law’s capable turn […]

This comedy of errors about a film production (of the super-cheesy ‘Cliff Beasts 6’) during the early days of the COVID lockdown is heavy on the errors and unfortunately light on the comedy. Written and directed by Judd Apatow, the film does have intermittent spots of fresh, hit-your-mark laughs, but […]

Leighton Meester dips her toes in the pulpy ‘Woman in the Window’/’Girl on the Train’ suspense-thriller waters and makes it out relatively unscathed. It’s not eminently memorable and relies on a few too many contrivances to be considered an unqualified success, but as movies like this go, it’s not terrible. […]

Though it tries a little too hard in its attempt to be a Hitchcockian, twist-filled thriller, this Hulu original still manages to be at least somewhat effective in its goals. The tale of a half-dozen people stranded at a winter rest stop takes a little too long to get going […]