the @popcollin reviews

The fourth entry into the Will Smith-Martin Lawrence buddy-cop franchise follows 2020’s ‘Bad Boys for Life’ and re-teams the pair with directing duo Adil and Bilal. Though it may not have any long-term cinematic repercussions, it certainly fits nicely into the canon of the franchise and does exactly what it […]

Presented as a bizarre and outrageous true-crime documentary about the ‘Hollywood’ bank robberies in early/mid-90s Seattle, this Netflix original winds up being a fairly straight-forward story about Scott Scurlock, an eccentric guy who was good at robbing banks. Sure, he lived in a treehouse and liked to stand around naked […]

The fourth in the recent ‘Apes’ reboot series, this entry takes place ‘many generations’ after the goings-on of 2017’s ‘War for the Planet of the Apes’, and reveals that humans have devolved and the apes now rule the dystopian world. Director Wes Ball (the ‘Maze Runner’ series) has put together […]

If you mashed up ‘Leaving Las Vegas’ and ‘The Bad News Bears’, you might be in the ballpark of this addiction dramedy starring Johnny Knoxville. Far from his ‘Jackass’ roots, Knoxville proves he has some decent chops in this predictable but still effective effort about the residents of a halfway […]

Though there’s very little here that is actually ‘untold’ (given the endless supply of Titanic books, documentaries, feature films, and all the rest), there’s still a decent story at work in this so-so film. The serviceable script, which is mostly drawn from recorded testimony, follows Senator William Alden Smith’s committee […]

I’m not convinced the world needs yet another big ol’ monster movie, but the Legendary MonsterVerse keeps spitting them out. This latest, the fifth in the franchise, is the weakest and most unnecessary of the bunch—though fans of the genre will, no-doubt, get all they need from it. Yet again, […]

Is the Lohan-aissance a thing? The former Hollywood darling-turned-pariah follows up 2022’s ‘meh’ Netflix flick ‘Falling for Christmas’ with this more admirable effort about a young book editor who makes a wish to marry the author she’s fallen for (and who is, sigh, engaged to one of her best friends). […]

What’s largely a one-woman show for Millie Bobby Brown, this solid action flick finds the star as an unwitting sacrifice, left for dead in a dragon’s lair and forced to fight her way out. Girl power is, of course, the name of the game, and Brown is more than up […]

It’s been eight and a half years since Po (voice by Jack Black) last skadooshed his way into theaters, and though I can’t say I’ve missed him terribly, the fourth installment gives the under-tween target audience plenty to stand up and cheer about. Despite the absence of the Furious Five […]

This cute new Peanuts short serves as the origin story of Franklin Armstrong, the first African-American character in the Charlie Brown universe. It’s a perfectly pleasant offering (executive produced by Charles Schulz’s son and grandson) that breezily moves along, telling the tale of how Franklin came to town and struggled […]