the @popcollin reviews

What starts out as an entertaining documentary from director Laurent Bouzereau about one of moviedom’s most enduring leading men unfortunately devolves into little more than an extended advertisement for ‘Dial of Destiny’ about halfway through. (I see what you did there, Disney+.) Even so, extended interviews with a who’s-who of […]

Adam Sandler’s latest Netflix offering is a surprisingly cute and endearing animated musical about, of all things, classroom pets. Sandler voices the titular lizard, and Bill Burr co-stars as a cranky turtle, and when the fifth graders in Ms. Malkin’s class discover that the animals can talk (and actually have […]

Set 64 years before the events of ‘The Hunger Games’ this prequel introduces us to a young Coriolanus Snow (Tom Blyth), a privileged (or so he makes the world believe) young man forced to mentor a ragamuffin tribute (Rachel Zegler) in the 10th edition of the morbid festivities. Directed by […]

David Fincher’s first film since 2020’s ‘Mank’ stars Michael Fassbender as an ice-in-his-veins hitman who goes on a cross-country killing spree after getting targeted himself. Though it certainly occupies the same dark and gloomy space as Fincher’s best (‘Gone Girl’, ‘Se7en’, ‘The Social Network’), the movie suffers a bit from […]

Director Neill Blomkamp burst on the scene in 2009 with the incredible ‘District 9’, but since then, it’s been a downhill slide (‘Elysium’, ‘Chappie’). His latest offering is a whiz-bang race car movie that combines the popular PlayStation franchise with the true(ish) story of how a gamer wound up behind […]

The story of the massive cyber theft of the Bangladeshi Central Bank in 2016 is brought to the screen in this well-done (and eminently accessible) documentary. Featuring interviews with experts and key players from every corner of the captivating story, the film unwraps all of the what, how, and why […]

Anyone wanting or expecting a light and frothy summertime romp about a doll’s adventures in doll-land better run in the other direction. Co-writer and director Greta Gerwig has instead given us Barbie (Margot Robbie) coping with a deep existential crisis as Ken (a brilliant, scene-stealing Ryan Gosling) becomes the poster […]

The fifth (and hopefully last?) Indy flick finds our intrepid hero in 1969, on the hunt for a nifty little time-travel gadget that, naturally, the Nazis can’t wait to get their hands on. (Yes, there are still Nazis around to torment Indy, even in the late 60s.) Phoebe Waller-Bridge holds […]

Based on the true story of the Mexcian janitor at Frito-Lay who brought the world super-spicy snacks, this feel-good flick is a great, uplifting story that’ll make you instantly wonder how you’ve never heard even a bit of it before. Eva Longoria, directing her first feature, pulls off the fascinating […]

Chronicling Colombian cyclist Rigoberto Uran’s journey through the 2020 Tour de France, this documentary by first-timer Ted Youngs will only be of interest to devout Tour fans and/or fans of Rigo himself. It’s well done, certainly, and provides plenty of behind-the-scenes insight, but for anyone who doesn’t reserve three weeks […]