the @popcollin reviews

If we weren’t entirely sure we needed Hotel Transylvania 2, that goes triple for Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation, the over-busy, hyper-kinetic brain scramble from Genndy Tartakovsky. But since this summer has been largely vacant as far as kids movies go (Incredibles 2 is the only other one to be released since school […]

George Bernard Shaw is credited with the adage: “We don’t stop playing because we grow old, we grow old because we stop playing.” Ironically, it’s that saying that grows old throughout the duration of Jeff Tomsic’s Tag; it’s repeated over and over again like some kind of cheesy playground mantra, and […]

If you’ve ever wondered about how much of a difference a director can make, look no further than Paul Feig. The man who directed Melissa McCarthy in Bridesmaids, The Heat, and Spy showcases the actress’ talents like no one else has been able to, giving her free rein to bring the funny. McCarthy’s own […]

Though not required (or, by the book, legal), it may help to walk into Broken Lizard’s Super Troopers 2 as high as a kite. The disgraced gang of merry Vermont Highway Patrol officers, who were last seen in 2001, are back in all their puerile glory. And since their sense of humor […]

By my count there are at least a half-dozen things the women in A Bad Moms Christmas do that would get normal (not in the movies, that is) people arrested. From public pot-smoking in broad daylight to stealing a mall Christmas tree to faking a charity in order to con people out […]

In the late summer of 1973, the country was abuzz with the impending Battle of the Sexes tennis match between Billie Jean King and Bobby Riggs. Now, some four decades later, the awards circuit is abuzz with the feature film about that famous match, and I’m frankly at a loss […]

Before his too-soon death in 2013 from cancer, author Vince Flynn made a nice name for himself as the creator of the Mitch Rapp series of thriller/black-ops novels—so much so that CBS Films snapped up the rights to his entire book series (eight-strong at that point) with an eye on […]

It is what it is. Luis Prieto’s Kidnap is a fairly by-the-book flick about a woman chasing after the people who kidnapped her young son. That’s it. There’s no twist, no bizarre subplot, not much of anything, really, except for Halle Berry. Yes, the one-time Oscar winner (who hasn’t done anything of […]

The last time we saw Goldie Hawn, she was goof-ballin’ it up in 2002’s The Banger Sisters. So what prompted her to come out of ‘retirement’? The chance to play Amy Schumer’s mom in Snatched. And though the movie is too uneven to be considered memorable or even legitimately worthwhile, […]

The Fast and Furious flicks have never been terribly concerned with obeying the laws of physics (or common sense, for that matter), and eight movies in, with two more still to come, it’s clear that’s not going to change anytime soon. In fact, the nonsensical goings-on in The Fate of […]