By Jake Coyle/AP Film Writer For a not small segment of the audience for “Minions: Rise of Gru,” only one thing really needs to be said. The Minions are in it. That’s […]
Minions run wild in “Rise of Gru”
OC native is the “new Elvis”
By Jake Coyle/AP Film Writer On the day of Austin Butler’s final screen test for “Elvis,“ director Baz Luhrmann threw everything at him. Butler had spent five months building up to that […]
“Lightyear” movie is a buzzkill
By Jake Coyle/AP Film Writer “In 1995, Andy got a toy from his favorite movie. This is that movie.” So begins “Lightyear,” a new Pixar release that takes a meta approach to […]
“CODA” and “Dog” Oscar faves
By Lindsey Bahr and Jake Coyle AP Film Writers Ahead of the 94th Academy Awards, Associated Press Film Writers Lindsey Bahr and Jake Coyle share their predictions for major categories in a […]
Is “The Batman” too serious?
By Jake Coyle/AP Film Writer Batman, never a day person, is plunged into perpetual night in Matt Reeves’ nocturnal, nihilist, neo-noir take on the Caped Crusader. Reeves’ three-hour-long “The Batman” includes plenty […]
“Uncharted” has a familiar path
By Jake Coyle AP Film Writer Goonies never say die, and neither do some of their storylines. “Uncharted,“ a new movie based on the PlayStation video game, cribs heavily from adventures like […]
A dull “Death on the Nile”
By Jake Coyle/AP Film Writer Kenneth Branagh’s Agatha Christie adaptation “Death on the Nile” begins with a flashback to the trenches of World War I before shifting to 1930s London two decades […]
“Scream” is more of a yawn
By Jake Coyle AP Film Writer Ring. Ring. Twenty-six years after the original, “Scream” calls again. We’re now up to the fifth film in the franchise, but the first since 2011’s “Scream […]
