Luca – Review Phil W. Bayles June 19, 2021 Reviews After giving us all an existential crisis with Soul, the folks at Pixar have taken things down a few notches with Luca. It’s a charming story about two boys - Luca (Jacob Tremblay) and Alberto (Jack Dylan...
The Mitchells vs. The Machines – Review Phil W. Bayles April 30, 2021 Reviews Even if you didn’t already know that The Mitchells vs. The Machines - originally titled Connected - was produced by Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, you’d probably guess it within five minutes. It bears...
The Happytime Murders – Review James Andrews September 1, 2018 Reviews The conceit of The Happytime Murders might have made a half decent Saturday Night Live sketch but a good, even passable, feature film it does not. Most frustrating is the sheer laziness of the script. Todd...
Life of the Party – Review Rachel Brook May 11, 2018 Reviews Do Melissa McCarthy movies get less funny as she gets more famous? Life of the Party, McCarthy’s latest collaboration with her writer-director husband Ben Falcone, suggests yes. What sounds like a riotous,...
The Emoji Movie – Review Kambole Campbell August 5, 2017 Reviews The Emoji Movie struggles to know its audience from the very beginning. It wants to be an earnest film about the wonders of the inside of a smartphone, but also wants to mock teenagers for depending on them....
The Angry Birds Movie – Review Phil W. Bayles May 15, 2016 Reviews A mobile game most people use to pass time on the toilet is not the ripest material for cinematic adaptation. The writers of The Angry Birds Movie know this, and their solution is to throw as many jokes as...
The Citizen Kane of Awful: Grown Ups 2 Tom Bond January 22, 2014 Features, Nostalgia, The Citizen Kane of Awful 7 Comments For Your Consideration: Grown Ups 2 Cast: Adam Sandler, Chris Rock, David Spade, Kevin James, Salma Hayek, Maya Rudolph Director: Dennis Dugan Writers: Fred Wold, Adam Sandler, Tim...