Coming 2 America (2021)
Coming 2 America is the much-belated sequel to Eddie Murphy’s most popular of starring vehicles, 1988’s Coming to America. Murphy returns to his role as Akeem Joffer, an obscenely wealthy prince of the fictional...
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The Jewel of the Nile (1985)
The Jewel of the Nile is a sequel to the successful romantic adventure comedy of the year prior, Robert Zemeckis’ Romancing the Stone, featuring the same main players in Michael Douglas, Kathleen Turner, and Danny...
Black Panther (2018)
Directed and co-written by Ryan Coogler, who has already been on a roll with noteworthy films like Fruitvale Station and Creed, takes on the Marvel Cinematic Universe with Black Panther, one of the better entries to date. Working well as a...
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...
Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls (1995)
In this sequel, a botched rescue attempt of a raccoon in Asia leaves Ace Ventura (Carrey) an emotional wreck, so distraught that he joins a brotherhood of Tibetan monks to help find his way back. While...
Sahara (2005)
I’ve read exactly one of Clive Cussler’s seventeen novels in the Dirk Pitt series, and chances are, I’ll never read any of the other sixteen. If I were a book critic, I’d elaborate more,...
The Lion King (1994)
Disney continues its string of instant classic family films with one of their best in recent years, The Lion King. Essentially, it’s a loose interpolation of Shakespeare’s “Hamlet,” set in the fields of Africa, with...
Jackie Chan’s Who Am I? (1998)
A trio of scientists studying strange meteorites are abducted by a crew of commandos, but the commando squad is sabotaged by someone higher up and only Jackie (Chan) survives – but he can’t even remember...