the @popcollin reviews

It’s a year late, sure, but this Disney ride-based actioner is, for the most part, worth the wait. Emily Blunt and Dwayne Johnson lead the way in what winds up being an entertaining (though not entirely family-friendly) romp. It’s more violent than it needs to be, more convoluted than it […]

New Girl’s Jake Johnson co-wrote and stars in this quirky, quarantine-filmed indie about a man whose estranged mother (Susan Sarandon) left him an inheritance on the condition that he finish a to-do list she created for him. D’Arcy Carden and J.K. Simmons co-star. It’s pleasant and endearing and uplifting— like […]

Shailene Woodley and Felicity Jones headline this dual-period romance about women finding love in their own times. It’s based on the sappy novel by Jojo Moyes, and despite straddling the thin line between treacle and genuine emotion, it never really goes astray. Calling it an elevated and evolved Hallmark movie […]

The R.L. Stine-based trilogy wraps up with this olden-times conclusion to the gory goings-on in Shadyside and Sunnyvale, and, it turns out, they saved the best for last. The satisfactory final chapter brings everyone from the first two films back together for a helluva ride. It’s still cartoonishly violent and […]

Though it would be easy to write this off as a female-centric version of ‘John Wick’, there’s actually quite a bit more going on. Karen Gillan stars as a young woman thrust into the assassin business by her mother (Lena Headey). When the crap hits the fan, mom’s old gang […]

Chris Pratt and Yvonne Strahovski lead the way in this sci-fi actioner helmed by The Lego Batman Movie’s Chris McKay. Pratt stars as an Army vet called back into duty and sent to the future to battle a race of aliens. The action is slick, the tension is ramped up, […]

The first-ever celebrity chef gets his (long overdue) documentary treatment courtesy of the Mouse House and the director of Jiro Dreams of Sushi, David Gelb. In a scant 78 minutes, you get a crash course on everything Wolf, from his Austrian childhood, through Spago, and to his present day life […]

What could easily have clunked into theaters as a juvenile, cartoon violence-filled bit of ephemera instead (as with the first) delivers not only for kids but for the parents forced to tag along, too. Sure, Rose Bryne and Domhnall Gleeson are great, but it’s the sharp script and solid comic […]

This efficient (72-minute) documentary tracks the trio of London bombings in 1999 that paralyzed the country, leaving three people dead and more than 100 injured. It’s not as probing and insightful as you might hope or expect, but it’s an above-average primer on those three April weeks, and it features […]

The rock-doc chronicling the popster’s 2019 European tour is a revealing look into her life on the road as she balances long days rehearsing and performing with offstage time as a mother and wife. Not only is it fun and infused with all her greatest musical hits, it gives us […]