Author Van Roberts

FILM REVIEW OF ''FIGHTING WITH MY FAMILY'' Although Dwayne ‘the Rock’ Johnson gets top billing in British writer & director Steven Merchants’ amusing but insightful wrestling biography...

MOVIE REVIEW OF ''ALITA: BATTLE ANGEL' “Sin City” director Robert Rodriguez’s manga-inspired, post-apocalyptic, science fiction,  cyberpunk, origin epic “Alita: Battle Angel” (*** OUT...

MOVIE REVIEW OF ''WHAT MEN WANT" Remakes rarely top originals. Surprisingly enough, “What Men Want” (**** OUT OF ****) surpasses “What Women Want” (2000).  The above-average Mel Gibson...

MOVIE REVIEW OF ''SERENITY" Ever seen a movie that made no sense? Hollywood goes to extraordinary lengths to make Serenity and its feature films not only palatable, but also coherent for its audiences. After...

Movie Review: "GLASS" "Sixth Sense" writer & director M. Night Shyamalan's psychological superhero thriller “Glass” (** OUT OF ****) concludes the East Rail 177 Trilogy that his earlier...

BATTLE OF THE BULGE: WUNDERLAND Movie Review Hollywood loves to make movies about Adolf Hitler’s last desperate bid to oust American soldiers dug into the snow-swept Ardennes as the last year of World War...

Black Water Jean Claude Van Damme's Action Epic Anybody who watches Belgian martial arts actor Jean-Claude Van Damme’s action epics may find “Black Water (**1/2 OUT OF ****)...

“Peppermint” Jennifer Garner A Vengeful Mom! Imagine what the Liam Neeson abduction thriller “Taken” (2008) might have been had a woman wreaked havoc galore, and you’ll have a fair idea...

The fifty something son of Muppets creator Jim Henson, Brian Henson may have thought everybody would laugh hysterically at the sight of his father’s “Sesame Street” Muppets wallowing in...

The Meg, "A Novel of Deep Terror" “Jaws” for the “SpongeBob” generation, “The Meg” (** OUT OF ****) proves bigger isn’t always better when it comes to atmospheric suspense and a...