By Bob Garver               Here’s a movie that certainly surpassed expectations. The low-budget “Terrifier” franchise is not usually one...

By Bob Garver               Back in 2019, “Joker” managed to make over $1 billion at the global box office and earn itself 11 Oscar...

By Bob Garver             For better or worse, late September this year is certainly the time for animated robot movies. Fortunately, we...

By Bob Garver               I actually had high hopes going into “Transformers One.” Not because I’m a big fan of the toys or really...

By: Bob Garver “Speak No Evil” is a remake of a 2022 Danish movie with a famously vile twist. I went into this film expecting it to have...

By Bob Garver               In preparation for “Beetlejuice Beetlejuice,” I watched the original film from 1988. I found that I liked...

By: Bob Garver Nobody is going to mistake cut-rate biopic “Reagan” for a great movie. At best, it’s a pretty standard...

By: Bob Garver “Alien: Romulus” started out at a disadvantage with me because I haven’t liked any of the “Alien” films that came before...

By: Bob Garver With “Trap,” writer/director M. Night Shyamalan has given us a half-decent movie. By which I mean that half of it is…...

By: Bob Garver If nothing else, “Deadpool & Wolverine” is Disney taking a victory lap for acquiring 20th Century Fox and the Marvel...

By: Bob Garver It’s usually at the end of the review that I talk about a film’s MPAA rating, but I’ll twist it up for “Twisters.” Or...

By: Bob Garver The gruesome horror movie “Longlegs” pulled something of an upset at this past weekend’s domestic box office. It wasn’t...

By Bob Garver For a franchise that has been fairly consistent with its style of PG animated humor, the “Despicable Me” movies are kind of...

By: Bob Garver “A Quiet Place: Day One” made a grave miscalculation with its advertising. Scenes were filmed with the intention of...

By: Bob Garver Watching “The Bikeriders,” the word “inauthentic” kept driving through my mind. For example, I wasn’t buying pretty-boy...

By Bob Garver Back in 2015, Disney and Pixar introduced us to 11-year-old Riley and the squabbling emotions inside her prepubescent head....

By Bob Garver I’m not going to go into a lot of depth about the story in “Bad Boys: Ride or Die.” Miami detectives Mike Lowery (Will...

By Bob Garver 2015’s “Mad Max: Fury Road” was one of the most critically-lauded action movies not just of its year, not just of its...

By Bob Garver My biggest complaint about writer/director/star John Krasinski’s new movie “IF”… is that it’s a movie. What I mean is that...

By Bob Garver In this era of constant reboots and re-imaginings and the like, “Planet of the Apes” has had a pretty successful run....