the @popcollin reviews

Sylvester Stallone and Jason Statham lead the way in this wham-bang actioner that slowly but surely turns into ‘Die Hard on a Cargo Ship’. It has its moments, sure, and the fight sequences and testosterone overload are enough to keep your interest (assuming you’re up for fight sequences and a […]

Kaitlyn Dever stars as community outcast Brynn in this efficient and solid sci-fi/horror flick about an alien invasion in a small town. The gimmick here is that not only is it essentially a one-woman show, but only five words of dialogue are spoken over the film’s 93 minutes. It’s a […]

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 […]

Denzel Washington is back as Robert McCall, the Jason Bourne-like one-man killing machine in the third (and last?) installment of director Antoine Fuqua’s franchise. Oddly enough, the installments keep getting better with each outing, culminating with this Italy-set adventure, where McCall takes it upon himself to save a small coastal […]