Low-brow comedy, poorly written script, bad acting, and endless gory scenes characterize "Cocaine Bear." Producer-director Elizabeth Banks ("Pitch Perfect 2" 2015) and screenwriter Jimmy Warden took a real-life 1985 incident where a bear consumed 75 pounds of cocaine dropped from an airplane and made it into a [..]

"Teenagers from Outer Space" is a science fiction B-movie thriller about a young alien who abandons his space ship and crew from another planet. The aliens' mission is to use human life on earth as a farm for giant lobsters they in turn use for food. [..]

Denzel Washington returns as Robert McCall in "The Equalizer 3." Director Antoine Fuqua ("Training Day" 2001) and screenwriter Richard Wenk have kept the formulaic McCall vigilantism, this time in a new setting in a small town in southern Italy. McCall discovers that his new Italian friends [..]

If you enjoyed the first two films in the franchise, then "My Big Fat Greek Wedding 3" is for you. Director-writer-star Nia Vardalos remained faithful to the storylines of the originals, while actually traveling to Greece to film the third installment. The story involves the Portokalos [..]

"Bobby" is a fictionalized account of the hours leading up to the assassination of Sen. Robert F. Kennedy at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles on June 5, 1968. Although director-screenwriter Emilio Estevez ("The War at Home" 1996) surely had good intentions in this memorial to Kennedy, [..]

Director Steven Spielberg ("Duel" 1971) created a movie masterpiece with the science fiction thriller "Jurassic Park." Spielberg and screenwriters Michael Crichton and David Koepp tell the story of a new theme park featuring cloned dinosaurs falling victim to industrial sabotage, causing safety protocols to fail, resulting in [..]

Helen Mirren delivers an outstanding performance as Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir in the biopic "Golda." Israeli director Guy Nattiv ("Skin" 2018) and screenwriter-producer Nicholas Martin put together a film depicting the actions of Israel's fourth prime minister in the Yom Kippur War of Oct. 6-25, 1973, when [..]

A good script, a wonderful ensemble cast headed by a major star, and a setting in Hawaii all combine to make "The Descendants" one of the best movies of 2011. George Clooney stars as attorney Matt King, a man with a lot on his plate. His [..]

Kathleen Turner returns to the big screen playing a dying millionaire who suddenly has numerous relatives kissing up to her to inherit some of her fortune in "The Estate." Director-screenwriter Dean Craig ("Love, Wedding, Repeat" 2020) has inculcated this black comedy with so much coarse language and [..]

"The Old Way" is a western drama starring Nicolas Cage as a farmer and retired gunman who goes on a mission to find the outlaws who killed his wife. Director Brett Donowho ("Acts of Violence" 2018) and screenwriter Carl W. Lucas put together an enjoyable and watchable [..]