Have you ever watched an "Airport" movie and wished the cast would get eaten by sharks? Your dream just came true with DEEP WATER, a disaster movie hybrid with some bloody great action but waterlogged special effects. The cast of characters is straight out of a 1970's Airport sequel. Aaron Eckhart (The Dark Knight) is Ben, the committed First Officer trying to get one last round-trip done so he can get home to his wife and ill son. Ben Kingsley (Gandhi, Schindler's List) play

They don't make them like this anymore. Thank the film gods. Stately, dull and a complete waste of Bisset & Bergen, RICH AND FAMOUS is a 1981 melodrama that manages to even make sex boring. Director George Cukor (My Fair Lady, The Philadelphia Story, Gaslight) turned out his fair share of film classics in the 40's and 50's, but this was his last, tired film. It's gasping on fumes as it reaches out to a past era of two hankie melodramas. Jacqueline Bisset (Bullitt, Airport) mo

Fear is the New Faith....... There is a long sequence near the end of 28 YEARS LATER: THE BONE TEMPLE that is so perfectly staged, so over the top in every way possible that I laughed out loud. It's absolutely, madly, hellishly perfect. Sadly, you'll need to suffer through so much graphic torture and insufferable death to get to that sequence, it's hard to recommend you stay seated. The Devil is in the details, as it were. Picking up shortly after the events of last year's "

Seeing this was trending as the most watched film on Netflix on the lazy day after Christmas, I thought "Great! an old fashioned disaster flick", there's no better cinematic comfort food. THE GREAT FLOOD is kind of a disaster, but not in a good way. Drowning in ideas, and dragged waaaay under by one of the most annoying child characters in history, it's more sink than swim. We meet An Na and her young son in an opening scene so grating that I immediately wanted the kid to d

The creators of MEGAN 2.0 apparently decided early on to forget about horror and just go for something near "Batshit Crazy" territory...

Not nearly as funny or scary as it thinks it is, HELL OF A SUMMER is a disappointing writing/directing debut by Finn Wolfhard and Billy...

After sitting through Bong Joon Ho's follow up to his brilliant "Parasite", I think he's mis-titled his newest work. It should be called...

I just spent nearly two hours in HERE , and can clearly say there's not much there. Robert Zemeckis has made many of my favorite films of...

Sad to hear of Kris Kristofferson's passing yesterday, I wanted to go back and see one of his eighties roles. In 1981, he paired up with...

Francis Ford Coppola is one of my all-time favorite film makers. "The Godfather", "Godfather Part II", "The Conversation", "Apocalypse...

More Elmer Fudd than Elmer Gantry, Steve Martin's 1992 misfire LEAP OF FAITH can't even save itself. I am a huge Steve Martin fan, but...

There are charming moments in John Krasinski's new film IF, but it's a long and winding road to get to the last thirty minutes that holds...

An interesting concept that never quite engages, I.S.S. details what would happen aboard the International Space Station should nuclear...

THE MARVELS is a mildly enjoyable, perfectly unnecessary final entry in the old Marvel universe, which makes its intriguing post-end...

Proof yet again that adapting a great Stephen King short story into a feature length film can be a tricky proposition, THE BOOGEYMAN...

If you want to understand just how great Christopher Nolan's new film "Oppenheimer" is, just compare it to the 1989 big screen effort to...

When Jim Abrahams and the Zucker Bros created 1980's comedy classis "Airplane!", I had no idea just how much they lifted directly from...

It’s official. Tom Hardy loves being in movies where you can’t understand a damn thing he’s saying. I’ve seen him as Bane in “The Dark...

If horror films were graded by the difficulty of their mysteries, YOU SHOULD HAVE LEFT would fall into the level of a First Grader's ...

I'm a huge Gene Wilder fan. From "Young Frankenstein" and "Blazing Saddles" to "The Producers" and "Silver Streak", the man was a...

When you look at the cast of THE WATCH, Ben Stiller, Vince Vaughn, Jonah Hill and very funny newcomer Richard Ayoade, you think, "this...

Visually interesting but living up to the second word of its title, SLEEPY HOLLOW is an empty bag of tricks that never lives up to its...

An occasionally interesting take on the old “two couples rent a too-good-to-be-true beach house” story, THE RENTAL offers some humor, a...

In 2003 upon the release of TIMELINE, the movie adaption of his hit novel, Michael Crichton was so upset that he never granted the film...