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 [..]

"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, [..]

Director Steven Spielberg ("Duel" 1971) created a movie masterpiece with the science fiction thriller "Jurassic Park." Spielberg and screenwriters Michael Crichton and David Koepp tell the story of a new theme park featuring cloned dinosaurs falling victim to industrial sabotage, causing safety protocols to fail, resulting in [..]

Helen Mirren delivers an outstanding performance as Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir in the biopic "Golda." Israeli director Guy Nattiv ("Skin" 2018) and screenwriter Nicholas Martin (also one of the producers) contain most of the story to the Yom Kippur War of Oct. 6-25, 1973, when Egypt [..]

A good script, a wonderful ensemble cast headed by a major star, and a setting in Hawaii all combine to make "The Descendants" one of the best movies of 2011. George Clooney stars as attorney Matt King, a man with a lot on his plate. His [..]

Kathleen Turner returns to the big screen playing a dying millionaire who suddenly has numerous relatives kissing up to her to inherit some of her fortune in "The Estate." Director-screenwriter Dean Craig ("Love, Wedding, Repeat" 2020) has inculcated this black comedy with so much coarse language and [..]

"The Old Way" is a western drama starring Nicolas Cage as a farmer and retired gunman who goes on a mission to find the outlaws who killed his wife. Director Brett Donowho ("Acts of Violence" 2018) and screenwriter Carl W. Lucas put together an enjoyable and watchable [..]