Rated R for language, violence and brief drug use.Starring Kevin Bacon, Shea Whigham, Camryn Manheim, Hays Wellford and James Freedson-JacksonDirected by Jon WattsCop Car is dark, menacing and a little depressing. When two rebellious young boys stumble across an abandoned cop car hidden in a secluded glade they decide to take it for a joyride. When the small town...
Rated PG-13 for action violence, some suggestive content, and partial nudity.Starring Henry Cavill, Armie Hammer, Alicia Vikander and Hugh GrantDirected by Guy Ritchie (Sherlock Holmes, Snatch and Lock, Stock & Two Smoking Barrels)The “coolest” film of 2015.Set against the backdrop of the early 1960s, at the height of the Cold War, The Man from U.N.C.L.E. centers on CIA agent...
Rated PG-13 for sci-fi action violence, and language.Starring Miles Teller, Michael B. Jordan, Kate Mara, Jamie Bell, Toby Kebbell and Tim Blake NelsonDirected by Josh Trank (Chronicle)There was nothing Fantastic about this reboot.Fantastic Four, a contemporary re-imagining of Marvel’s original and longest-running superhero team, centers on four young outsiders who teleport to an alternate and dangerous universe, which alters...
Rated PG-13 for sequences of action and violence, and brief partial nudity.Starring Tom Cruise, Jeremy Renner, Ving Rhames, Simon Pegg, Rebecca Ferguson and Alec BaldwinDirected by Christopher McQuarrie (Jack Reacher and The Way of the Gun)The Mission Impossible films do the impossible…they keep getting better.Ethan and team take on their most impossible mission yet, eradicating the Syndicate –...
Rated R for language and some disturbing material.Starring Jonah Hill and James FrancoDirected by Rupert GooldThis film was surprising and predictable at the same time. When disgraced New York Times reporter Michael Finkel (Jonah Hill) meets accused killer Christian Longo (James Franco) —who has taken on Finkel’s identity—his reporting job morphs into an unforgettable game of cat and mouse....
Rated PG-13 for intense violence and action throughout, some sensuality, thematic elements and brief language.Starring Shailene Woodley, Theo James, Miles Teller, Maggie Q, Kate Winslet, Mekhi Phifer and Jai CourtneyDirected by Robert Schwentke (RED and R.I.P.D.)My son and I have watched both of the Divergent films, but I think this was the last one for us. The Divergent Series:...
Rated R for violence, some disturbing images, language and a scene of sexuality.Starring Tom Hardy, Noomi Rapace, Joel Kinnaman and Gary OldmanDirected by Daniel Espinosa (Safe House)After watching Child 44, I'm still not sure what happened or what was supposed to happen. A politically-charged serial killer thriller set in 1953 Soviet Russia, CHILD 44 chronicles the crisis of conscience...