By Bob Garver “Goosebumps” is based in a series of kids’ books from the mid-90s.…
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Bob Garver movie reviews
“Pan”
By Bob Garver “Pan,” the well-meaning prequel to “Peter Pan,” already has a reputation as…
“The Martian”
By Bob Garver It’s becoming an annual tradition to get a big space epic in…
“Hotel Transylvania 2”
By Bob Garver “Hotel Transylvania 2” is a lame animated movie that takes some of…
“Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials”
By Bob Garver The last “Maze Runner” movie ended with a handful of our teenage…
“A Walk in the Woods”
By Bob Garver It happened again. A film playing on less than 2,000 screens beat…
“War Room”
By Bob Garver The Christian film “War Room” pulled off an incredible box office feat this…
“Sinister 2”
By Bob Garver “Sinister 2” is a dreadful movie, as was the 2012 original. The…
“Fantastic Four”
By Bob Garver “Fantastic Four” was supposed to be the last blockbuster of the summer,…
“Pixels”
By Bob Garver A common complaint about the recent films of Adam Sandler and Kevin…
“Ant-Man”
By Bob Garver “Ant-Man” is the second movie this summer for the Marvel Cinematic Universe (which…
“Inside Out”
By Bob Garver After a year off following a bit of a critical slump, Pixar…
“Jurassic World”
By Bob Garver “Jurassic World” takes place in a future where dinosaur cloning technology has…
“Spy”
By Bob Garver Few actors, male or female, comedic or dramatic, have a better track record…
“Tomorrowland”
By Bob Garver “Tomorrowland” is an uneven film. It gets off on the wrong foot,…
“Hot Pursuit”
By Bob Garver “Hot Pursuit” is a witless action comedy opening in the enormous shadow…
“Avengers: Age of Ultron”
By Bob Garver “The Avengers” is just about the biggest movie franchise in the world.…
“Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2”
By Bob Garver It has been over six years since the first “Paul Blart,” which…
“Furious 7”
By Bob Garver The “Fast and the Furious” franchise used to be largely about drag…
“Cinderella”
By Bob Garver “Cinderella” has always been good to the people at Disney. The 1950 animated…
“Chappie”
By Bob Garver “Chappie” is a film that really wants to explore the role of artificial…
“Focus”
By Bob Garver Regular readers should know by now that I’m not a big fan…
“Fifty Shades of Grey”
By Bob Garver There is no denying that “Fifty Shades of Grey” is one of the…
“The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water”
By Bob Garver I watched a few episodes of the “SpongeBob SquarePants” cartoon to get…
“American Sniper”
By Bob Garver “American Sniper” follows the life of Chris Kyle (Bradley Cooper), a…
“Taken 3”
By Bob Garver “Taken” has always been a pretty lowbrow franchise. The appeal of the films…
“Into the Woods”
“Into the Woods” is the big holiday offering from Disney, a jaunty yet dark adaptation of…
“Unbroken”
By Bob Garver “Oh no, the depressing POW movie “Unbroken” was somehow the hottest new…
“The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies”
By Bob Garver For better or worse, “The Hobbit: Battle of the Five Armies” is…
“Exodus: Gods and Kings”
The Exodus story has been depicted onscreen many times before, most notably in “The Ten Commandments”…
“Horrible Bosses 2”
By Bob Garver 2011’s “Horrible Bosses” was a solid, funny movie. The thing I remember most…
“Penguins of Madagascar”
By Bob Garver The most noticeable theme that runs throughout “Penguins of Madagascar” is probably…
“The Hunger Games:
Mockingjay – Part 1”
By Bob Garver “The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1” is probably going to be the…
“Dumb and Dumber To”
By Bob Garver It has been twenty years since the Jeff Daniels and Jim Carrey first…
“Big Hero 6”
“Big Hero 6” is Disney’s only major animated offering this year, the…
“Interstellar”
“Interstellar” is three hours long and you feel every minute of it. It’s an epic about…
“Nightcrawler”
By Bob Garver Almost all of the memorable scenes in “Nightcrawler” are ones where Jake…
“Ouija”
By Bob Garver Here it is: the official scary movie of Halloween 2014. I have to…
“Fury”
By Bob Garver “Fury” is a brutal war movie that wants to provide a jarring, emotional…
“Gone Girl”
By Bob Garver “Gone Girl” is one of those movies that is so twisty that…
“The Equalizer”
By Bob Garver “The Equalizer” is a story that we’ve seen plenty of times before.…
“Dolphin Tale 2”
By Bob Garver 2011’s “Dolphin Tale” told the story of Winter, a rescued dolphin…