Walt Disney Pictures has another one billion dollar movie on its hands with "Beauty and the Beast." This is a live-action remake of the studio's 1991 animated film of the same name. The music by Alan Menken and the 18th century French fairy tale are all [..]

Vin Diesel returns for the third time as Xander Cage in "XXX: Return of Xander Cage." The Paramount Pictures film is long on action and short on original story line, as designed by producer Diesel, director D. J. Caruso ("Eagle Eye" 2008), and screenwriter F. Scott Frazier. [..]

Producer Margot Robbie, director Craig Gillespie ("Million Dollar Arm" 2014), and screenwriter Steven Rogers have put together a dark comedy-drama film about skater Tony Harding called "I, Tonya." It takes a look at her complex relationship with her mother, skating career, and the tragedy of her boyfriend's [..]

"The Wizard of Lies" is a riveting biopic about businessman Bernard Madoff's ponzi scheme where he bilked investors out of some $65 billion dollars. This HBO film has solid direction by Barry Levinson ("Rain Man" 1988) and a high quality teleplay by Levinson, Sam Baum, and John [..]

"Blade Runner 2049" is, to put it bluntly, boring as heck. This sequel to 1982's "Blade Runner" suffers from a slow-moving storyline that makes this nearly two-and-a-half hour movie seem to last forever. We have Denis Villeneuve to thank for this; he is a very cerebral [..]

"The Greatest Showman" is a very entertaining salute to Phineas Taylor Barnum and his Barnum and Bailey Circus, which was in business from 1871 to 2017. The multi-talented Hugh Jackman took over the title role in an exceptional way, acting, singing, and dancing, even as the storyline [..]

Director Kenneth Branagh ("Thor" 2011) has a fresh new version of Agatha Christie's 1934 novel "Murder on the Orient Express." Modern production values, a lively screenplay by Michael Green, and a "fussy" Hercule Poirot played by Branagh make this third movie version a very watchable and entertaining [..]

"Boo 2! A Madea Halloween" has bad writing, terrible acting, and sloppy direction. But somehow this tenth film in Tyler Perry's "Madea" comedy series, that started in 2005 with "Diary of a Mad Black Woman," is somehow entertaining with lots of laughs and was a hit in [..]

"Wind River" is an interesting crime drama about a murder investigation on an Indian reservation in Wyoming. Director-screenwriter Taylor Sheridan ("Hell or High Water" 2016) has given the audience a film with an engrossing story and good character development, the one flaw being the excessive violence. [..]

"Kill Switch" is a Dutch science fiction movie about a power company that builds a massive tower able to tap into unlimited energy. Unfortunately, it is discovered that the tower endangers people in a parallel universe. Don't you hate when that happens? Director [..]