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Review: Bad Boys: Ride or Die Reunites Will Smith, Martin Lawrence and More in a Messy Crime Actioner No One Asked For

Some movies just make you a little more cynical about the reasons people make them in the first place, and anyone who doesn’t recognize Bad Boys: Ride or Die for […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • June 5, 2024
    • Film , Film & TV , Review

    Review: Will Smith Stars in Emancipation, a Story of Enslavement, War, Faith and Triumph

    Set about 100 years apart, there are two films out right now built around real-life photographs of brutalized Black bodies that resulted in public outrage and instigated change in American […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • December 2, 2022
    • Film , Film & TV , Review

    Review: King Richard Explores the Driving, Fatherly Force Behind a Tennis Dynasty

    King Richard

    Richard Williams was a man with a plan—an actual written-down plan, dozens of pages long—for each of his many children, mapping out their lives as a path toward guaranteed success. […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • November 19, 2021
    • Film , Film & TV , Review

    Review: A New Entry in the Bad Boys Franchise is Stuck in the Past

    Bad Boys for Life

    Despite the fact that Bad Boys for Life (the third Bad Boys movie, for those counting, and the first since 2003) is meant to focus on its lead characters getting […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • January 15, 2020
    • Film , Film & TV , Review

    Review: Animated Spies in Disguise Could Use a Dose of Danger

    Spies in Disguise

    Well, this animated action-adventure featuring the vocal stylings of Will Smith and Tom Holland doesn’t have a particularly memorable or impressive look or story, but it has a great personality. […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • December 24, 2019
    • Film , Film & TV , Review

    Review: Special Effects Aside, Action Star Will Smith Can’t Save Gemini Man

    Gemini Man

    The latest from director Ang Lee (Life of Pi, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon), Gemini Man is actually based on a screenplay that has been bouncing around Hollywood for more than 20 […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • October 11, 2019
    • Feature , Film , Film & TV

    Film Review: Collateral Beauty, Gross and Ill Conceived

    Sometimes a movie is bad just because it’s bad, and sometimes it’s bad because it wants so passionately to be good that it chokes on its noble intentions. The last […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • December 16, 2016
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