Finally, a Transformers film that I wanted to rewatch for myself, and to show to my sons. With Bumblebee, out of the heavy-handed, robot-smacking control of Michael Bay [seriously, Bad Boys, The Rock, etc. are awesome, but his Transformers films not so much], Travis Knight (Kubo and the Two Strings) takes our favorite yellow robot and makes him… amazing. While the… [Read More]

How do you build on a classic? That was the charge given to screenwriter David Magee (Finding Neverland, Life of Pi) and director Rob Marshall (Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, Into the Woods, upcoming The Little Mermaid). Set twenty-five years after the Julie Christie and Dick Van Dyke original, the film finds Poppins returning to… [Read More]

Director Peter Segal had been quiet for the five years after a series of Adam Sandler hits (50 First Dates, Anger Management) and the boxing dud Grudge Match. Now, he’s resurfaced with the Jennifer Lopez-led Second Act and The Pacifier/Spy Next Door-like Dave Bautista film, My Spy, due this year.  With Lopez, Vanessa Hudgens, Leah Remini, Dan Bucatinsky, Milo Ventimiglia, and Treat… [Read More]

Sean Anders and his wife adopted children cross-culturally, undertaking a more difficult task than making audiences laugh with We are the Millers, She’s Out of My League, and the Daddy’s Home films. Thanks to the success he had writing and directing those other films, Paramount Pictures’ greenlit Anders’ more intimate project, Instant Family. Here, Anders told his story, and the… [Read More]

In the second installment of the Creed saga or the seventh chapter in the Rocky series, depending on your perspective, Sylvester Stallone’s script finds Michael B. Jordan’s Adonis Creed wrestling with fatherhood, marriage, and the ghosts of the past, namely Florian “Big Nasty” Munteanu’s Viktor Drago. Drago is of course the son of Ivan Drago (Dolph Lundgren), the fighter who… [Read More]