Hoppers Trades Pixar Magic for Surface-Level Charm

Hoppers Trades Pixar Magic for Surface-Level Charm

Hoppers ★ ★ ½ Hoppers is the latest Pixar animated adventure, following young animal lover Mabel (Piper Curda) as she does everything she can to save the glade by her grandmother’s (Karen Huie) house from Mayor Jerry Generazzo (Jon Hamm), whose city beltway project...
The Bride! Is Dead on Arrival

The Bride! Is Dead on Arrival

The Bride! ★ The Bride! is directed by Maggie Gyllenhaal and attempts to put a new twist on Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. The film opens in black and white, with Mary Shelley lamenting from some kind of spiritual limbo—tortured, tormented and angry. She wrote...
Scream 7 Is All Mask, No Menace

Scream 7 Is All Mask, No Menace

Scream 7 ★ ½ Scream 7 begins with Sidney Evans (Neve Campbell) living in a small town with her husband Mark (Joel McHale), a cop, and their teenage daughter Tatum (Isabel May). Sidney is constantly at odds with Tatum, and Mark does his best to mediate. This film...
How to Make a Killing Leaves Fortune on the Table

How to Make a Killing Leaves Fortune on the Table

How to Make a Killing ★ ★ ½ How to Make a Killing is a loose remake of the 1947 British dark comedy Kind Hearts and Coronets. Both films are adapted from the novel Israel Rank: The Autobiography of a Criminal by Roy Horniman. In each version, a man becomes a killer in...
Crime 101 is a Clever Caper with a Couple Flawed Stones

Crime 101 is a Clever Caper with a Couple Flawed Stones

Crime 101 is a Clever Caper with a Couple Flawed Stones ★ ★ ★ Crime 101 is a witty diamond caper that tells a simple story in a convoluted way. It weaves intrigue with characters so well developed you’d swear you know—or at least know of—someone just like them. What...