Monthly Archives: August 2018

A leaden, violent and tone-deaf script and two surprisingly unfunny stars — one trying WAY too hard and the other not trying at all — bury “The Spy Who Dumped Me.”  This strictly-according to formula espionage thriller is so laugh-starved … Continue reading →

Disney has a responsibility to Winnie the Pooh that extends beyond licensing agreements and mere commerce. Wherever A.A. Milne’s books still stand within the kid lit universe, Disney gave Pooh a voice, and the childish, gently daft and very English … Continue reading →

An unstable has-been “star” for a granny, who is the source of the family fortune, even now in her Home Shopping Network appearance years. A grandkid who loves the lazy way he lives, forced to scramble for a solution to … Continue reading →

Curiosity gets the better of us all, and as I, like the rest of the universe, missed Charlie Sheen’s big screen “comeback” when it was (barely) released in 2013, I took a gander at this one. The opening on-camera confession/interrogation … Continue reading →

McGinley’s an under-rated funnyman, and parking him in a dugout with a bunch of post-T-ballers is a cute enough idea. Could be funny. Not that the trailer gives a lot of the funny away. “Benched” opens in limited release Aug. … Continue reading →

Reverend Jim, or Doc Brown, if you prefer, as a heavy? Not a first, but usually it’s been in kids’ films that the trapped in flaky roles for life Christopher Lloyd showed a touch of the dark side. Here, he’s … Continue reading →

The letters “YA” are enough to strike terror in the hearts of any sentient movie goer, especially fans of science fiction. Because for every “Hunger Games” or “Maze Runner” that hits and spawns too many repetitive, inane sequels to count, … Continue reading →

The ambition is obvious, right from the swirl of opening credits to “Rest in Power: The Trayvon Martin Story,” a six part documentary series about the “Pandora’s Box” of race, death, the relative values of human lives and the nightmare … Continue reading →

Golly, talk about a MILF buzzkill. Not a lot of household names in this “Trashy Housewives Get Kids Killed” drama — Krista Allen, Megan Ward, Amber Frank. “Party Mom” looks like a “Lifetime Original Movie” with a splash more sex.

“Special” children survived the apocalypse. And now the government fears these “very rare” kid, X-Men and Women by another name. Keep the expectations low — an August movie doesn’t have the potential to be a blockbuster than a July movie … Continue reading →