Author Van Roberts

Rampage // Big Meets Bigger If you didn’t get your fill of colossal robots and chimerical lizards toppling Tokyo skyscrapers in “Pacific Rim Uprising,” you can find something similar in the...

Laudable though their intentions, “Supremacy” writer-director Deon Taylor and star-producer Paula Patton have forged a half-baked abduction opus “Traffik” (* OUT OF ****) about domestic...

Movie Review//Tomb Raider The long-awaited reboot of “Tomb Raider” (** OUT OF ****) runs out of momentum about an hour into its melodramatic, 111-minute running time.  Basically, this...

Movie Review//Game Night The best movies spring one surprise after another in such swift succession that you struggle to keep up with all the revelations. "Vacation" co-directors John Francis Daley...

Den of Thieves // Think fast, shoot faster. Don't miss An audacious, white-knuckled, adrenaline-laced, cops and robbers’ crime thriller with a twist ending, writer & director Christian Gudegast’s...

Bright // A human and an orc walk into a bar... Clearly, Netflix wants to go toe-to-toe with Hollywood, and they are challenging it with their own provocative, slam-bang, $90-million, pulp-fantasy-thriller...

Downsizing // We're Meant for Something Bigger The best thing about director Alexander Payne’s science-fiction, social satire “Downsizing”  is Matt Damon.  Damon makes such a friendly, sympathetic,...

DADDY'S HOME 2 // More Daddys, More Problems. “Sex Drive” writer & director Sean Anders scored a box office hit back in 2015 when he cast slapstick comic Will Ferrell and smash-up action hero Mark...

Only the brave // Based on a true Story A top-notch, true-life, tale of tragedy, “Only the Brave”, starring Josh Brolin, Jeff Bridges, Miles Teller, Taylor Kitsch, and Jennifer Connelly, salutes an...

AMERICAN ASSASSIN // It Takes one to Kill One You’d think with gifted writers like Stephen Schiff, who wrote “True Crime” and “Lolita,” Michael Finch who penned “Hitman: Agent 47” and “The...