For some reason, Walt Disney Pictures decided to make a second "Haunted Mansion" movie twenty years after the first one was released. Director Justin Simien ("Dear White People" 2014) and screenwriter Katie Dippold created a winsome and generally entertaining new product that tells the story of a [..]

Director Greta Gerwig ("Little Women" 2019) and her new film "Barbie" have taken the entertainment world by storm. Based on the Barbie fashion dolls by Mattel, this first live-action Barbie movie tells the story of Barbie and Ken as they leave Barbieland to travel to Los Angeles, after [..]

"Skyscraper" is an action-adventure film about a former FBI agent and security specialist who must rescue his family from a Hong Kong skyscraper when terrorists set fire to the structure. Director-screenwriter Rawson Marshall Thurber ("We're the Millers" 2013) filled the movie with loads of action sequences (especially [..]

"Road Trip" is a road sex comedy movie from director Todd Phillips in his big screen debut. Phillips also wrote the screenplay, with Scot Armstrong, which tells the story of high school sweethearts who attend different colleges, in New York and Texas, and have trouble maintaining their [..]

The Best Picture of 2023 is....."Oppenheimer." Producer-director-screenwriter Christopher Nolan ("Tenet" 2020) has put together quite a cinematic extravaganza about the life and times of physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer, from his running the Manhattan Project in the early 1940's to a subsequent fall from grace in the 1950's. [..]

Director Rawson Marshall Thurber and actor Dwayne Johnson team up for a third time in "Red Notice." The story has Johnson playing an FBI agent tracking a missing artifact from the first century that was a gift from Roman general Mark Antony to Egyptian ruler Cleopatra. [..]

"Triple Frontier" is an action-adventure picture from director J. C. Chandor ("All is Lost" 2013) that tells the story of five U. S. Army Delta Force friends who reunite to plan a major heist of a South America crime kingpin. Despite an uneven storyline in the first [..]

"End of Watch" is a finely crafted crime drama about two LAPD officers who patrol the dangerous streets of the South Central Los Angeles area. Producer-director-screenwriter David Ayer ("Harsh Times" 2005) evidently did his research, as the film has an authentic feel to it. [..]

Producer-director-screenwriter Rob Zombie has made a comedy-horror movie based on the old time television show "The Munsters." Strictly speaking, this film should be called a prequel because Zombie goes into the background and history of the characters of the sitcom that ran on CBS from 1964 to [..]

Ethan Hunt and the IMF team must track down a horrifying new AI weapon that could destroy the world if it falls into the wrong hands. The part they need to find is half of a fancy key to the weapon, or else, in "Mission: Impossible - [..]