Suicide Squad (2016)
Suicide Squad is the third official film in the DC Extended Universe, a bit tangential to what’s come before, save for a couple of Superman/Aquaman references, as well as the appearance of Bruce Wayne/Batman (Affleck, Gone...
Author: Vincent Leo
Bad Moms (2016)
Bad Moms is one of the more pushy raunchy comedies you’ll likely come across, a film so reliant on using vulgarity as a crutch it has characters drop F-bombs at their children’s schools and during...
Star Trek: Beyond (2016)
The Star Trek reboot franchise takes a step back toward the formula that made it a rabid fan favorite for millions of self-described Trekkers around the world over the last several decades. Although film critics and...
Ghostbusters (2016)
Kristen Wiig (Zoolander 2, The Martian) plays Erin Gilbert, an ambitious associate professor seeking tenure at New York’s prestigious Columbia University. Erin ends up losing that when a book she published years ago on ghosts...
The Secret Life of Pets (2016)
Upon first glance, The Secret Life of Pets would seem like a take-off on Pixar’s Toy Story series, using pets instead of toys to show the world of individual hobbies and collective adventures the characters would go in...
The Purge: Election Year (2016)
With themes that seem to tap into today’s headlines, The Purge: Election Year seems less like a sci-fi premise with a horror-movie sense of aesthetic, and more like a freaky fun-house mirror of our own society...
The Legend of Tarzan (2016)
Based on characters created by Edgar Rice Burroughs, Alexander Skarsgard (Zoolander 2, Hidden) stars as John Clayton III of Greystoke Manor, an earl living comfortably in London during the Victorian Era, whose past has made...
The BFG (2016)
Set in London, a clever but unhappy, insomnia-afflicted orphan named Sophie (Barnhill, “4 O’Clock Club”) wakes up in the middle of the evening and sees something outside the orphanage window. Investigating, she discovers a...
The Shallows (2016)
Blake Lively (The Age of Adaline, Accepted) stars as Nancy, former medical school student from Galveston, TX, who travels to her recently deceased mother’s favorite secret surfing spot in a lush spot on the Mexican...
Central Intelligence (2016)
Central Intelligence is the kind of film I find hard to grade, as it is one that is consummately watchable, and yet it also isn’t really what I would call a truly good movie. I...