Author Van Roberts

"THE BATMAN" MOVIE REVIEW Prepare yourself for a different kind of Caped Crusader in “The Batman” (**** OUT OF ****) as a ripped Robert Pattinson dons the cape and cowl. A grave looking Bruce Wayne...

MOVIE REVIEW OF ''UNCHARTED" The beginning and ending stunts in “Venom” director Reuben Fleischer’s “Uncharted” (**1/2 OUT OF ****) qualify as the best scenes in this otherwise uninspired adaptation...

MOVIE REVIEW OF "DEADLOCK" BRUCE WILLIS AT HIS BEST..OR NOT! The novelty of “Vendetta” writer & director Jared Cohn’s hostage thriller “Deadlock” (**1/2 OUT OF ****) is the casting of Bruce...

MOVIE REVIEW OF ''SCREAM" If you’re keeping count, the current entry in the “Scream” franchise qualifies as number five. Shrewdly, “Ready or Not” co-directors Matt Bettinelli-Olpin & Tyler...

''THE SURVIVALIST" MOVIE REVIEW As COVID-19 rages, infecting, and exterminating millions, filmmakers were bound to appropriate it as the basis for a movie. Adam Mason’s “Songbird” (2020)...

"GHOSTBUSTERS AFTERLIFE" MOVIE REVIEW Not only does the “Ghostbusters” sequel reboot “Ghostbusters Afterlife” (*** out of ****) recapture the whimsical hilarity of the original movies,...

"HELL HATH NO FURY" MOVIE REVIEW Imagine two vintage World War II movies--the European Resistance thriller “5 Branded Women” (1960) and the Clint Eastwood opus “Kelly’s Heroes” (1970), where...

MOVIE REVIEW OF ''APACHE JUNCTION" Villainous varmints with smoking six-shooters proliferate in “Badlands” writer & director Justin Lee’s lame horse opera “Apache Junction” (*1/2...

MOVIE REVIEW OF ''ZONE 414" The suspenseful dystopian thriller “Zone 414” (*** OUT OF ****) appropriates tropes from both Fritz Lang’s silent, science fiction, robot classic “Metropolis” (1927) and...

"TWIST" MOVIE REVIEW A perennial favorite with film producers, Charles Dickens’ second classic novel “Oliver Twist,” published back in 1838, serves as the source material for director Martin Owen’s...