the @popcollin reviews

Another day, another Liam Neeson action thriller. This time, our hero is an FBI fixer who uncovers nefarious truths inside the agency and goes on a one-man mission to take out the bad guys (all of whom are half his age and have much bigger guns). There’s little about this […]

The fourth installment in this kid-friendly monster series comes without the voice talents of regulars Adam Sandler and Kevin James and also the guidance of 1-through-3’s director Genndy Tartakovsky (though he does have a co-writing credit), but it still flies along just fine. When Drac and crew accidentally become human, […]

Proving for the gazillionth time that Tom Hanks can make even the worst thing bearable, Finch arrives on Apple TV+ like a muddled mash-up of Wall-E, Cast Away, and Short Circuit. The premise is simple enough (last man on Earth builds a robot so his dog will be taken care […]

Following in the footsteps of the excellent films Greta and The Year Earth Changed is this documentary chronicling how the planet is slowly dying, but that there’s still time to turn things around. Its heart is in the right place, sure, and the addition of David Attenborough certainly lends some […]

Starring Harry Melling and Tom Brooke as good Christian hitmen sent by their priest to bump off an atheist intellectual, this British black comedy certainly had the potential for some dry, whack-a-doo fun. And though there are plenty of moments (including a delightful Greek Chorus of spiffy gents) to warrant […]

Half Jackass-style prank show and half raunchy road trip comedy, this over-the-top flick starring Eric Andre and Lil Rel Howry does have its moments but, overall, gets tiresome right around the 60-minute mark. You’ll laugh here and there, but you’ll cringe throughout, and may even throw up in your mouth […]

Forty years after her Punky Brewster days, actress Soleil Moon Frye unleashes all her secret diaries and 90s-set home movies on the world, giving us some hefty insight into the Hollywood culture for kid actors back in those days. Drug abuse, teen sex, suicide, and pubescent burnout all figure heavily […]

Call it a kinder, gentler (and supernatural) version of “The Goonies”, set in Hawaii. This tween-friendly kid flick is fine fun, to be sure, but at more than two hours it does start to drag by the time we near the end; it might be hard to have your little […]

Margot Robbie stars (and shines) as an outlaw on the run from Texas authorities during the Great Depression who comes upon a lonely teenage boy willing to help her escape. Though it has all the trappings of an exciting and dramatic thriller, the movie meanders far more than it needs […]

Olivia Cooke stars in this Ireland-set Tarantino-esque crime flick complete with violence, bumbling idiots, and botched robberies. It’s nothing you haven’t seen already (much, much better) elsewhere, but Cooke and co-star Ben Hardy hold up their end of the bargain. The same can’t be said of Alec Baldwin, though, who […]