the @popcollin reviews

Almost thirty years after ‘Free as a Bird’ and ‘Real Love’ hit our ears as the ‘last’ Beatles songs, fans of the Fab Four are given one final treat. This short documentary details the fascinating production process that started with a tinny cassette tape of John at a piano and […]

This wrenching 18-minute film by photographer (and first-time director) Misan Harriman is a true testament to the power of ‘less is more’. David Oyelowo stars as a ride-share driver coping with a sudden and tragic loss. It’s sparse, haunting, and powerful—a brilliant debut for Harriman, who proves he’s just as […]

The first narrative feature by documentary directing duo Jimmy Chin and Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi (‘Free Solo’, ‘The Rescue’) stars Annette Bening as marathon swimmer Diana Nyad, who, at age 60, decided it was time to again attempt the 110-mile swim from Cuba to Key West. It’s a wonderfully inspirational story, […]

Zoë Chao and Anthony Mackie star in this twee indie about two astronauts who have been stranded on a spaceship for three years and now find themselves debating whether they should have sex with each other. (Pros and cons abound.) It plays a little like a light and fluffy version […]

The latest from documentarian Errol Morris is a deep dive into the mind of John Le Carré, arguably the world’s most acclaimed spy novelist. More than just a birth-to-death account of the author’s life, however, the film plays almost as a therapy session, as Morris uncovers Le Carré’s motivations, fears, […]

A super-fun mash-up of, say ‘Back to the Future’ and ‘Scream’, this horror-comedy from director Nahnatchka Khan (‘Always Be My Maybe’), is a virtual must-see for children of the Eighties (or anyone who can happily relate). Starring Kiernan Shipka as a modern-day teen who travels back to 1987 to try […]

Writer/director Gareth Edwards (‘Rogue One’) brings us a heady sci-fi morality play about the battle between humans and artificial intelligence, very much in the vein of ‘Blade Runner’ and ‘District 9’. John David Washington stars as a soldier sent to help eradicate the technology but who, instead, winds up going […]

This quartet of short films from director Wes Anderson (‘Sugar’ clocks in at 41 minutes; the other three are a super-quick 17 each) is based on short stories by Roald Dahl, which Anderson himself adapted. Starring some combination of Benedict Cumberbatch, Rupert Friend, Ben Kingsley, Ralph Fiennes, and Dev Patel […]

On the surface, it’s a fizzy little young-adult rom-com about an American girl (Haley Lu Richardson) and a British boy (Ben Hardy), who meet cute on a transatlantic flight and then spend the film trying to get back in touch once they land and get separated. Beneath everything, though, it’s […]

Kenneth Branagh’s third Agatha Christie-based film is the best of the bunch so far, a far spookier and creepier effort that finds his enigmatic Detective Poirot trying to solve a murder case at Halloween in Italy (which isn’t really a thing, but moving on…). Skewed camera angles, the occasional fish-eye […]