Well, Sony has done much worse than this movie with their handling of the Spider-Man universe characters, and yet it is underwhelming. That may be because the family conflict they've based the entire plot on seems a little forced. The dad is excessively terrible as if that's his entire motivation. I'm going to be a terrible father to my boys. One kid is excessively cowardly, the other carelessly brave. Everything is just operating on such extremes, there is no nuance…

I am not very familiar with the writings of Flannery O'Connor, but just in reading a description of her life I was intrigued by this film. Directed by Ethan Hawke and starring his daughter Maya Hawke as Flannery, the film takes a look at a very short period of time in the southern gothic writer's life, the period immediately following her diagnosis with lupus. It's an illness that killed her father and caused her to live most of her life…

If you've seen the trailer for this movie, it delivers exactly what you expect of it. It is formula, formula, formula. But, it's formula done fairly well. The performances are good. I really like Alan Ritchson. The girls are very good. The story is a good one too. There are some moments that drag a little, where the filmmakers push a little too much for the formula. It doesn't dig very deep into these characters, but for what it's trying…

It is quite frankly disappointing that this film marks Sean Connery's final appearance as an actor. This movie doesn't live up to his legacy. It's bad. It's a bad excuse to give him another shot to play an aging James Bond-type. I can see how this premise might work for a comic book, which is what it's based on, but as a movie, it's just too silly to bring all these fictional literary characters together for an adventure. It just…