"Little Italy" is a run-of-the-mill romantic comedy loosely based on Bill Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet," with young people in love who come from two feuding Italian-Canadian families. Director Donald Petrie ("Mystic Pizza" 1988) seemed to throw together this picture at the last minute, with a screenplay penned [..]

Comedy actor Kevin Hart co-produced, co-wrote, and stars in a mediocre motion picture called "Night School." This farce is the story of a salesman who attempts to earn his GED when he loses his job. Director Malcolm D. Lee ("Undercover Brother" 2002) displays his lack of [..]

Director Kevin Connolly ("Dear Eleanor" 2016) and screenwriters Lem Dobbs and Leo Rossi have a horrible bomb on their hands with "Gotti." This story about the real-life mobster has poorly written dialogue, uneven plot lines, and terrible acting, especially by star John Travolta in bad makeup as [..]

Clint Eastwood shows he can still deliver the goods on the big screen after five decades in his latest movie "The Mule." In this true story, Eastwood plays a World War II veteran who becomes a courier for a drug cartel. Eastwood [..]

"Johnny English Strikes Again" for the third time, delivering laughs and fun entertainment as usual. Panned by the critics but popular with the movie going public, Rowan Atkinson is always humorous as the hapless British secret agent on a mission for Her Majesty's government, with bumps in [..]

The new "Robin Hood" is a horrid production, reinterpreting the old Anglo-Saxon hero with modern special effects and political correctness. British director Otto Bathurst and producers Leonardo DiCaprio and Jennifer Davisson created this turkey that audiences rejected at the box office. The lame screenplay was penned [..]

Historical inaccuracies and gratuitous sex scenes plague the latest "Mary Queen of Scots" motion picture. This was Josie Rourke's first movie direction job, and her inexperience shows. (She was mainly a director in live theater.) The picture is also just plain boring, with a lackluster [..]

"BlacKkKlansman" is director Spike Lee's movie about Colorado Springs Police Department's first African-American detective who launches an effort to infiltrate the local Ku Klux Klan in the 1970's. Lee keeps the 135 minute picture flowing smoothly, and gets good performances out of John [..]

"In Like Flynn" tells the true story of the early life of legendary Australian actor Errol Flynn before his movie star years. The fast moving film follow's Flynn's adventures in Papua New Guinea and in the outback of Australia. Down Under director Russell Mulcahy ("Highlander" 1986) [..]

Julia Roberts plays a mom whose son returns unexpectedly from a drug rehab on Christmas Eve, promising a 24 hour roller ride as she endeavors to keep him clean. The melodrama plays out smoothly enough thanks to director-writer Peter Hedges ("What's Eating Gilbert Grape" 1993), who got [..]