Kong: Skull Island (2017)
A quintessential popcorn flick, Kong: Skull Island doesn’t try to go deep with important themes or get entrenched in lots of set-up or explanation, built on the premise that audiences want lots of action and humor...
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Guardians of the Galaxy (2014)
Peter Quill (Pratt, The LEGO Movie) was a young boy in 1988 when he was abducted by an alien spacecraft flying overhead. He has spent the next few decades working as a ‘junker’ as part of...
Wreck-It Ralph (2012)
When the kids leave the arcade, the game characters come to life (in their own cyber world, anyway — akin to Toy Story). Wreck-It Ralph (Reilly) is a ‘bad-guy’ video game character who is tired...
Cedar Rapids (2011)
Ed Helms plays Tim Lippe, an insurance salesperson who lived a highly sheltered life in a small town in Wisconsin. The insurance company’s top salesman (Lennon) suffers a fatal accident that showcases him as a...
Days of Thunder (1990)
Racing footage = good, drama = bad. This is about as short as the review of Days of Thunder needs to be, in this very disappointing misfire from the crew that brought you Top Gun, producer Jerry...
State of Grace (1990)
At its heart, State of Grace isn’t really a new kind of film in the small-time gangster genre, but it is an example of one that follows the formula with well-oiled precision. What these movies all...
Hoffa (1992)
Jack Nicholson’s performance is the spotlight here, and probably the biggest reason why Hoffa, Danny DeVito’s ambitious but mostly disconnected biopic about the controversial union leader, Jimmy Hoffa, The film follows Hoffa’s rise from out of...
The Anniversary Party (2001)
It’s sort of a poor man’s Big Chill, complete with Kevin Kline, in this multi-character piece reportedly shot entirely with DV cameras in 19 days, with roles written specifically for the friends of writer-director-stars Cumming...
Boys (1996)
Ryder is Patty Vare, who has been getting visits from the local police regarding her knowledge about the whereabouts of a stolen car and a missing baseball player. Not wanting to deal with it,...