Low-brow comedy, poorly written script, bad acting, and endless gory scenes characterize "Cocaine Bear." Producer-director Elizabeth Banks ("Pitch Perfect 2" 2015) and screenwriter Jimmy Warden took a real-life 1985 incident where a bear consumed 75 pounds of cocaine dropped from an airplane and made it into a [..]

"Teenagers from Outer Space" is a science fiction B-movie thriller about a young alien who abandons his space ship and crew from another planet. The aliens' mission is to use human life on earth as a farm for giant lobsters they in turn use for food. [..]

Denzel Washington returns as Robert McCall in "The Equalizer 3." Director Antoine Fuqua ("Training Day" 2001) and screenwriter Richard Wenk have kept the formulaic McCall vigilantism, this time in a new setting in a small town in southern Italy. McCall discovers that his new Italian friends [..]

If you enjoyed the first two films in the franchise, then "My Big Fat Greek Wedding 3" is for you. Director-writer-star Nia Vardalos remained faithful to the storylines of the originals, while actually traveling to Greece to film the third installment. The story involves the Portokalos [..]

"Moon" is science fiction story about a man experiencing problems as his three-year work contract on a mining colony on the moon draws to a close. The predictable and slow-moving film was put together by first-time director Duncan Jones, and poorly written by Nathan Parker. It [..]

"Fast & Furious," fourth in the series of movies that began with "The Fast and the Furious" in 2001, is, like its predecessors, heavy on action and slim on story line. The important factor to producer-star Vin Diesel is that this picture is a huge success at [..]

The Best Picture of 2009 is....."The Hurt Locker." This compelling drama about three soldiers who disarm bombs in the Iraq War was very well directed by Kathryn Bigelow ("Point Break" 1991), who became the first woman to win the Best Director Oscar. It also won four [..]

Plenty of laughs and hilarity from chaotic situation abound in "It's Complicated." Producer-director-screenwriter Nancy Meyers ("Private Benjamin" 1980) is responsible for this slick romantic comedy, well paced throughout most of its two hour duration. Meryl Streep and Alec Baldwin star as a [..]

"The Young Victoria" is an interesting look at the early life of Britain's Queen Victoria. Director Jean-Marc Vallee ("Loser Love" 1999) and screenwriter Julian Fellowes created a classy period piece that depicts how the relationship between Victoria and her new husband moved from royal strangers to intimate [..]

"Bobby" is a fictionalized account of the hours leading up to the assassination of Sen. Robert F. Kennedy at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles on June 5, 1968. Although director-screenwriter Emilio Estevez ("The War at Home" 1996) surely had good intentions in this memorial to Kennedy, [..]