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...
Two cops, Mel Gibson and Vince Vaughn's Brett Ridgeman and Anthony Lurasetti, have crossed so many lines that they're put on leave pending investigation. Needing funds fast, they trail a crew of heavily armed thieves, including recently paroled petty thief Slim (Tory...
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...
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...
Michael Cimino, of?The Deer Hunter?fame and?Heaven's Gate?notoriety, shoots the gap between his Oscar wins for the first and the derision of his work for the second in Mickey Rourke's?The Year of the Dragon. While Rourke had collaborations with Steven Spielberg...
Before?SWAT, Hawaii Five-O, MacGuyver, Lethal Weapon,?and?Magnum P.I.?were remade as television dramas, studios seemed fascinated with remaking old television shows into slightly more offbeat films. In between films like I, Spy,?and later films like?The A-Team?and?21...
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,...
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...
In?Wreck-It Ralph, John C. Reilly's villainous video game character Ralph goes off script, yearning to become a hero, and befriends another video game character, Sugar Rush's?Vanellope von Schweetz. The two of them cause problems, seek out solutions, and end up...