Tag: Richard Roeper

IMAGINE waking up in a world where everything is the same, with one exception: Nobody has ever heard of The Beatles or any of their songs.

Now that’s what I call a fantastic follow-up of a pop-in.

POP QUIZ! What do the following actors have in common:

MARIE COLVIN was one of the great combat correspondents of our time, covering conflicts everywhere from Chechnya to Sierra Leone to Sri Lanka to East Timor, and breaking stories of great impact in a career spanning more than a quarter-century.

LET’S SEE, how did we do with our Summer Preview?

WELCOME, Wakanda.

IT MUST be a kick for the makeup and nifty effects people to sit in the back of a theater and soak in the reaction from the audience when a character has to stitch up that nasty cut on her forehead with a makeshift needle and thread. Or how about that moment when someone rips open a jeans leg, and we see the “bone” jutting out from a gaping wound? GROSS!

DEEP into the astonishingly dopey, odiously off-putting and thoroughly unfunny Tag, one of the main characters says, in all sincerity:

“And she said, ‘We are all just prisoners here, of our own device.” -- The Eagles, “Hotel California”

By Richard Roeper, Chicago Sun-Times (Warning: The following column is brimming with spoilers about movies old and new. If you haven’t seen Deadpool 2 yet...

By Richard Roeper Movie Review Love, Simon Directed by Greg Berlanti MAYBE IT’S TOO EASY to say Love, Simon feels like a 21st-century John Hughes high school movie...

By Richard Roeper Movie Review The Florida Project Directed by Sean Baker FOR MOST of The Florida Project, I found myself rooting for unseen authorities. The police. The Florida...

By Richard Roeper Movie Review 7 Days in Entebbe Directed by Jose Padilha THE RAID is on. Israeli commandos are about to descend on Entebbe Airport on a mission...

By Richard Roeper “THE Walking Dead Is Finally Getting Its First Totally Nude Zombie” — actual headline on Forbes.com. Only the most popular and lasting TV...

By Richard Roeper Movie Review Battle of the Sexes Directed by Valerie Faris and Jonathan Dayton “YOU’VE COME a long way, baby, to get where you got to...

By Richard Roeper Movie Review A Bad Moms Christmas Directed by Jon Lucas and Scott Moore DEEP into the inept and lazy and uninspired A Bad Moms Christmas,...

By Richard Roeper TOLD YA SO! In my 2017 Summer Movie Preview, I listed Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, Alien: Covenant, Dunkirk, Wonder Woman, Detroit,...

By Richard Roeper MOVIE REVIEW Everything, Everything Directed by Stella Meghie SOME 41 YEARS after John Travolta played The Boy in the Plastic Bubble and 25 years after...

By Richard Roeper Movie Review Pirates of the Caribbean: Salazar’s Revenge (aka Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales) Directed by Joachim Ronning and Espen Sandberg WHEN...

By Richard Roeper Movie Review The Wall Directed by Doug Liman THIS IS a monster movie disguised as a war movie. Set in the middle of Nowhere, Iraq, in...

Movie Review Gifted Directed by Marc Webb Go see Gifted SOMETIMES YOU LOVE a movie even as you realize it’s far from perfect. That’s what I’m here to tell...

By Richard Roeper Movie Review Gifted Directed by Marc Webb SOMETIMES YOU LOVE a movie even as you realize it’s far from perfect. That’s what I’m here to tell...

By Richard Roeper LET’S TAKE A LOOK at my 17 most hotly anticipated movies of 2017. (You should have seen how many I listed in...

MOVIE REVIEW Collateral Beauty Directed by David Frankel By  Richard Roeper Stop. Someone in a position of power should have said just that long before Collateral Beauty ever made...

By Richard Roeper 10. Arrival — This is one of those sci-fi thinkers that get better with a second or third viewing. Amy Adams gives...

By Richard Roeper 10. London Has Fallen — The sequel to the moderate hit Olympus Has Fallen is just as bad: cliché-riddled terrorism actioner packaged...

By Richard Roeper MOVIE REVIEW The Secret Life of Pets Directed by Chris Renaud and Yarrow Cheney TALK ABOUT a split personality. If I broke down The Secret Life...

By Richard Roeper Movie Review Me Before You Directed by Thea Sharrock WHEN THE LIGHTS dim and the movie begins, we try to shed our perceptions of the...

By Richard Roeper Movie Review My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2 Directed by Kirk Jones WHEN they turned the 2002 feature film My Big Fat Greek Wedding into...

By Richard Roeper Movie Review London Has Fallen Directed by Babak Najafi IT’S YOUR FAULT I had to endure London Has Fallen. Well, maybe not YOU, specifically, but because...

By Richard Roeper Movie Review Risen Directed by Kevin Reynolds Give the Sony Pictures-backed Affirm Films and Risen director and co-writer Kevin Reynolds credit for making a different...

By Richard Roeper Movie Review The Finest Hours Directed by Craig Gillespie PROPS to the cast of The Finest Hours, most of whom spend about three-quarters of their...

By Richard Roeper Movie Review Zoolander 2 Directed by Ben Stiller FOR Austin Powers in Goldmember, the third installment of the franchise in 2002, a bounty of big-name...

By Richard Roeper FOR A manic-depressive, alcoholic, washed-up political consultant of a certain age who’s dealing with altitude sickness in strife-torn Bolivia, and, oh yeah,...