Kevin Hart

Freeze Frame: “Borderlands” (R), “It Ends with Us” (PG-13), “The Instigators” (R)

Yearning for another movie based on a video game series? If so, you still may want to avoid "Borderlands." Director Eli Roth, best known for his gory splatter films strands Oscar winners Cate Blanchett and Jamie Leigh Curtis and Mark Twain Prize winner Kevin Hart in a sci-fi action comedy...

Freeze Frame: “Mean Girls” (PG-13), “American Fiction” (R), “Lift” (PG-13), “Echo” (TV-MA)

Tina Fey's hit 2004 comedy "Mean Girls" was adapted into a popular Broadway musical. The new movie is a cinematic version of that play. Angourie Rice leads the cast in the tale of a teen who rubs a nasty A-list student the wrong way when she falls for a certain...

Freeze Frame: “Three Thousand Years of Longing” (R), “Me Time” (R), “Breaking” (PG-13), “Samaritan” (PG-13)

The Idris Elba film fest continues for the second week in a row with the ambitious fantasy, "Three Thousand Years of Longing." Elba plays a genie who emerges from a bottle to grant scholar Tilda Swinton three wishes. What follows is an off-beat philosophical meditation on human desire. This earnest...

Freeze Frame: “DC League of Super Pets” (PG), “Vengeance” (R)

File the animated action comedy "DC League of Super Pets" under the 'pleasant surprises' category. Krypto, Superman's dog, puts together a crew of rescue pets to save his master and the other members of the Justice League when their lives are threatened by a super evil guinea pig. Okay, okay,...

Freeze Frame: “Elvis” (PG-13), “The Man from Toronto” (PG-13)

The life of rock n’ roll legend Elvis Presley gets an over-the-top, almost operatic treatment with Baz Luhrmann's phantasmagorical two-hour and forty-five-minute biopic, "Elvis," Tom Hanks plays his Svengali-like manager, Col. Tom Parker, narrating the story from his selfish, opportunistic perspective. Austin Butler is excellent as the naive but extraordinarily...