I think I saw Snow White and the Huntsman (2012).  I think.  I can’t be 100% certain.  Obviously it didn’t make that big of an impression on me if I can’t remember seeing it, but it made a ton of money, so obviously it was going to get a second film, though I doubt it needed one.  The Huntsman: Winter’s War is a sprequel, part prequel, part sequel, and a middle of the road film that…

I really liked the first Barbershop (2002).  It’s a very sweet, funny movie with good messages about family and friendship.  Did it deserve a sequel?  Probably not.  Did it deserve to be a trilogy?  Definitely not.  But here we are with Barbershop: The Next Cut, the third film in the Barbershop series and, even though it didn’t deserve a trilogy, it is arguably the best film of the three. With the rise in gang violence surrounding the neighborhood, Calvin…

Hardcore Henry follows Henry, a man who was in some horrific accident and put back together using robotics and turned into a killing machine.  He sets out to get his wife (Haley Bennett) back from a Magneto-like villain Akan (Danila Kozlovsky) before he creates super solders similar to Henry to take over the world. The entire movie is shot in the first person from the perspective of Henry, something that has never been done in the action…

Jon Favreau’s live-action version of The Jungle Book had my jaw on the floor for the entire 105 minute run time.  This movie is spectacular in every way.  The visuals are astoundingly beautiful with great use of 3-D, the action is exciting, and the story is better and darker than the original animated film, yet still keeps the films spirit perfectly. Mowgli (newcomer Neel Sethi), a man-cub living amongst the wolves, tries to flee the jungle after a threat…