The Wolfman (2010)

The Wolfman (2010)

[5] Benicio Del Toro plays the cursed title character in this remake of Universal Pictures' famous 1941 monster movie. After his brother is discovered mutilated, Del Toro returns home to his father's estate to find out who killed him. Anthony…
Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark (2010)

Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark (2010)

[7] Guillermo del Toro presents this creepy tale about a little girl (Bailee Madison) who discovers evil creatures live in the ash pit beneath her father's newly acquired mansion. While the creatures try to persuade the girl to join them,…
King Kong (1976)

King Kong (1976)

[6] After the world saw its first bona-fide blockbuster, 1975's Jaws, daring Italian movie mogul Dino De Laurentiis decided he needed to go down in history for producing the second one. He settled on a remake of 1933's King Kong…
The Incredible Shrinking Woman (1981)

The Incredible Shrinking Woman (1981)

[6] Lily Tomlin stars in this gender-bent retelling of Richard Matheson's short story. Tomlin plays Pat Kramer, who after being exposed to a combination of myriad household chemicals, begins to physically shrink. As she becomes a reluctant worldwide celebrity and…
Madame Butterfly (1932)

Madame Butterfly (1932)

[3] Sylvia Sidney and Cary Grant star in this iteration of Madame Butterfly, the shitty-ass story of a geisha who marries an American Navy officer who leaves her and never comes back. The concept, alone, makes me cringe. Granted, this…
Jumanji: The Next Level (2019)

Jumanji: The Next Level (2019)

[6] There's a certain kind of movie that is really hard to review. This is one of those movies. It's a studio movie, formulaic in structure and unremarkable in substance, but entertaining in laughs and thrills and a great vehicle…
Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle (2017)

Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle (2017)

[6] A big-budget studio action-comedy is one of the least likely candidates to catch my attention these days, but a few people insisted Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle was a cut above the rest. And while the bar is low,…
D.O.A. (1988)

D.O.A. (1988)

[2] Dennis Quaid stars in this remake of a 1949 thriller about a literature professor who has 24 hours to live, and he spends that time trying to figure out who poisoned him and why. I like Dennis Quaid a…
It: Chapter Two (2019)

It: Chapter Two (2019)

[6] The children from It: Chapter One are all grown up when Chapter Two begins with an eye-witness sighting of Pennywise (Bill Skarsgård) finishing off the victim of a hate crime. Mike (Isaiah Mustafa) summons the group back to Derry,…
Emma. (2020)

Emma. (2020)

[2] This is the worst adaptation of Jane Austen's Emma I've seen, with Gwyneth Paltrow's middling 1996 version coming in ahead, and Amy Heckerling's Clueless easily taking the crown. This newest incarnation is directed by Autumn de Wilde, a first-time…