Pierce Brosnan

Freeze Frame: “The Friend” (R), “Freaky Tales” (R), “MobLand” (R)

Don’t be fooled by the deceptive advertising. The big dog movie "The Friend" with Naomi Watts and Bill Murray is NOT a family friendly comedy. It’s an R-rated drama about suicide and grief based on the novel by Sigrid Nunez. Watts plays a struggling novelist who inherits a Great Dane...

Freeze Frame: “Joy Ride” (R), “The League” (Not rated), “The Out-Laws” (R), “The Lesson” (R)

In the shameless and unapologetically bawdy comedy “Joy Ride,” Ashley Park, Stephanie Hsu, Sherry Cola and Sabrina Wu play Asian-American friends who go on a trip to China where everything goes awry. It's goofy, energetic and the cast is very appealing, but "Joy Ride" will either bring you joy or...

Freeze Frame: “A Hero” (PG-13), “The King’s Daughter” (PG)

So, is it true that no good deed goes unpunished? With his latest movie “A Hero,” Oscar-winning Iranian writer/director Asghar Farhadi continues to show why he's one of the world's finest filmmakers. This contemporary morality play is about a man serving time in an Iranian debtors' prison who, while on...

Freeze Frame: “F9: The Fast Saga” (PG-13), “False Positive” (R), “Rita Moreno: Just a Girl Who Decided to Go For It” (PG-13), “The Ice Road” (PG-13)

In a scene from the latest in the “Fast and Furious” franchise, “F9,” a character played by Ludacris aptly says, “Nobody’s gonna believe this!” Exactly. Entries in the 20-year-old 10-film franchise have morphed into preposterous over-the-top action fantasies that make “Transformers” movies seem credible by comparison. The script is awful,...