Movie Reviews

We’ve all heard about the perils of smartphones. They’re distracting, addictive and massive time-wasters. But no one has warned us about the dangers within smartphones. Enter The Emoji Movie (PG), which posits a busy digital city within your phone called Textopolis that’s populated by living, breathing emojis – those colorful icons used by the younger generation in place of words. ...

He’s a British man on a World War II mission, but his weapon of choice isn’t a pistol or rifle. It’s a yacht, and hundreds of other British citizens are taking their own boats and joining him on his journey. Their goal: cross the English Channel, avoid Nazi fighter planes, and rescue more than 330,000 Allied troops that are surrounded ...

It’s never a good idea to make gorillas and chimpanzees angry. Just ask the kids who once teased that giant ape at Omaha’s Henry Doorly Zoo in a now-viral video. That gorilla broke the safety glass! Of course, when apes acquire intelligence, speaking skills and then guns, it’s a whole different ballgame. That’s what we discover in War for the ...

Peter Parker is your typical 15-year-old sophomore trying to fit in at school. That is, when he’s not wearing his Spider-Man tights, swinging from skyscrapers and snagging bad guys. Parker, though, isn’t content with fighting local crime. He wants to join the Avengers. He also longs to get a date with the senior girl that caught his eye the other ...

Our favorite villain-turned-hero, Felonious Gru, had everything going for him. Three beautiful daughters. A lovely wife. And a great job with the good guys – the Anti-Villain League. Then a brat by the name of Balthazar Bratt entered the scene, and Gru hasn’t been the same since. Bratt stole the world’s largest diamond, despite the best efforts by Gru (Steve ...

Approximately 1,600 years ago, a Transformer visited Earth to hand humanity a secret weapon: a magical staff. It could have landed in anyone’s lands, but Merlin – yes that Merlin – was the first to acquire it. You see, up until this point in history Merlin really didn’t have any magic. He was simply an old drunk man who lied ...

Poor ole’ Lightning McQueen. Once the dominant racecar driver in the Piston Cup series, he now spends his days staring at his trophies, reading his old newspaper clippings, and watching classic race reruns on TV. It’s downright depressing, but his last season on the circuit wasn’t successful, anyway. A new rookie named Jackson Storm was taking advantage of the latest ...