Walt Disney's money making machine continues this year with "Frozen II." This sequel to the 2013 movie "Frozen" has become the sixth film released by Walt Disney Pictures in 2019 to earn over a billion dollars at the box office, joining "Captain Marvel," "Avengers: End Game," "Aladdin," [..]

The long anticipated "Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker" is out, a satisfying conclusion of nine motion pictures that began with the original "Star Wars" in 1977. Producer-director-screenwriter J. J. Abrams filled the two hour and twenty-two minute picture with continuous action sequences, special effects, unexpected plot [..]

Though Dwayne Johnson and Jason Statham are listed at the top of the credits in "Hobbs and Shaw," the real star of the show is the non-stop action-adventure and car chase scenes. We would expect nothing less from director David Leitch, who was also at the helm [..]

Cate Blanchett turns in another sterling performance, this time as an anti-social architect who mysteriously leaves her husband and daughter in Seattle and flees to Antarctica. The director and writer of "Where'd You Go, Bernadette," Richard Linklater ("Bernie" 2011), gave Blanchett the room and the material to [..]

John Travolta has another terrible film out called "The Poison Rose." This crime drama was sloppily directed by George Gallo and Francesco Cinquemani, who also co-wrote the terrible screenplay with Richard Salvatore and Luca Gilberto, adapted from Salvatore's novel of the same name published in 2018. [..]

"Breakthrough" is an engrossing faith-based motion picture based on the true story of a teenager who falls into a coma and his family's efforts to heal him through faith and prayer. Director Roxann Dawson did quite well here in her big screen debut, with the watchable film [..]

Renee Zellweger delivered a memorable performance as legendary entertainer Judy Garland in the biopic "Judy." She was so convincing in the role that it was easy to forget that this was indeed Zellweger acting and not Garland herself. Rene Zellweger was awarded the Best Actress Oscar [..]

Director Sam Mendes ("Skyfall" 2012) put a lot of attention to detail in the World War I drama "1917," which he also produced and co-wrote with Krysty Wilson-Cairns. It is the story of two British soldiers deployed to deliver an important message to another battalion that an [..]

Will Smith plays a government agent who finds he is fighting a younger clone of himself in "Gemini Man." On the positive side, director Ang Lee ("Life of Pi" 2012) and producer Jerry Bruckheimer ("Top Gun" 1986) installed good production values, outstanding special effects, and a generous [..]

"Jumanji" is the tale of a supernatural board game that releases wild animals from the jungle upon anyone and everyone that comes into contact with it. This strange story seems to translate well to the big screen with major stars like Robin Williams and Bonnie Hunt and [..]