A glimpse into the next life is revealed to movie audiences in "Heaven is for Real." This is the story of four-year-old Colton Burpo, who says he went to Heaven during emergency surgery. Director Randall Wallace ("Secretariat" 2010), co-wrote the screenplay with Christopher Parker, wove together [..]

Another "Robocop" remake draws nothing but yawns from critics and the movie-going public alike. This fourth version from Brazilian director Jose Padilha ("Elite Squad" 2007) is slicker and has better FX, but is still the same old story we have seen before in 1987, 1990 and [..]

"Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit" is a poor attempt to reboot an aging film character series, despite the big names involved. Chris Pine is the fourth Jack Ryan on the big screen (it would be his only appearance), and, despite help from director Kenneth Branagh ("Much Ado About [..]

Special effects in 3D are the star of the show in "Pompeii," a disaster film about the destruction of the Roman city of Pompeii by Mount Vesuvius in 79 A.D. Lousy direction by Paul W. S. Anderson ("Alien vs. Predator" 2004) and a disastrous screenplay by Janet [..]

"The Remaining" is a faith-based film about what happens to a group of people left behind in the Rapture. Director-screenwriter Casey La Scala, as in his 2002 movie "A Walk to Remember," has an unfocused approach to faith-based filmmaking as he combines faith and horror elelments in [..]

"Let's Be Cops" is a comedic story about two friends whose one-time impersonation of police officers grows into a full-time job. Producer-director Luke Greenfield ("The Girl Next Door" 2004) skillfully progressed the storyline in an entertaining fashion; he co-wrote the screenplay with Nicholas Thomas. [..]

Producer-director George Clooney ("Leatherheads" 2008) has turned out quite a gem of a motion picture in the World War II drama "The Monuments Men." The story follows a group commissioned by the Allies to finding and securing artwork and other culturally important items before they could be [..]

Director-screenwriter Nicole Holofcener ("The Land of Steady Habits" 2018) has created an entertaining little film called "You Hurt My Feelings." It stars Julia Louis-Dreyfus as a wife of a therapist and features the amusing daily conversations they have together, and with their son, her sister, and their [..]

Gerard Butler plays a CIA operative stranded deep in hostile territory in Afghanistan who must fight his way out with his translator in the action picture "Kandahar." On the positive side, director Ric Roman Waugh, who worked with Butler on "Angel Has Fallen" (2019), has created a [..]

Walt Disney Pictures continues with their habit of recent years in remaking nearly all of the classic films, this time redoing "The Little Mermaid," a new live action version of the 1989 animated feature. Director Rob Marshall ("Mary Poppins Returns" 2018) and screenwriter David Magee have retained [..]