the @popcollin reviews

It certainly makes sense that, if anyone would make a gangbusters popcorn flick about stuntmen, it would be David Leitch. The former stunt double for Brad Pitt, he then graduated to stunt coordination before becoming a director (‘Atomic Blonde’, ‘Deadpool 2’). His fifth full-length feature is (very) loosely based on […]

Based on the true story of how a rogue group of British ne’er-do-wells helped cripple the Nazi U-boat program in the early stages of World War II, this Guy Ritchie film is a solid action-adventure laced with comedy and oh-so-much violence (but it’s killing Nazis, so it’s okay). Henry Cavill […]

Like a slow-burn drama from the Coen Brothers’ playbook (think ‘Blood Simple’ or an un-quirky ‘Fargo’), this dark and violent pseudo-thriller features Scoot McNairy as a down-on-his luck salesman with a past, who teams up with his old partner in crime (Kit Harington) to run drugs in Big Sky Country. […]

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 […]

A 2010 Canadian home invasion and murder-for-hire scheme unfolds in this Netflix documentary a little like a low-rent episode of ‘Dateline’. There are no real surprises along the way (it’s all right there in the title), and there’s not much depth or backstory either—both of which means this one’s fairly […]