Articles by Paul Hall

The colony ship Covenant is bound for a remote planet to establish a new society. On the way, the crew hears a strange radio signal and investigates the source. That investigation leads them to a beautiful planet, but something doesn’t seem quite right. Little do they know their intuition is correct and they are about to stumble upon a truly harrowing experience in  Alien: Covenant. As the expedition team hits the surface, they are eager to find out what might have been making the signal that caught their ear. A planet that seems life-supporting and hosts lush greenery also appears […]

Joe (Michael Caine), Willie (Morgan Freeman) and Albert (Alan Arkin) have been friends for much of their life. They worked for years at the local steel mill and are living on the pensions they earned from their hard work. In a flurry of ownership changes, their pensions are frozen, leaving the men in their golden years without a source of income. But don’t discount Joe, Willie and Albert — a plan is afoot in the film Going in Style. With Joe leading the charge, the three decide to rob a bank. Yep, they are almost “8-0,” yet they are still […]

Families grow every day. New babies come home with excited parents and two becomes three or three becomes four. But rarely do babies arrive by themselves in a taxi. That’s what Tim sees out his window when the boss baby (voice of Alec Baldwin) comes to Tim’s home. In the film The Boss Baby, Tim is no longer the subject of all his parents’ attention — he must share with this strange new member of his family. Tim (Miles Bakshi) has a vivid imagination and is constantly creating exciting stories with his mom (Lisa Kudrow) and dad (Jimmy Kimmel). They […]

Travel with me to an uncharted island in the Pacific during the 1970s. There is a constant storm that surrounds this majestic gem of lush green landscape. Under the guise of a mission to map the surface of this remote wilderness, a team of scientists and soldiers are about to realize that they are not alone on this island in Kong: Skull Island. Bill Randa (John Goodman) has searched for many things that were thought of as crazy. A senior operative with Monarch Industries, he gathers a team and sets out on an amazing adventure. His team includes the best […]

The Fast and the Furious franchise has been alive since its first film hit theaters in 2001. As the series has progressed we have come to expect a level of consistency in the action and visuals. The plot has always been fairly constant, relying on the feeling of family within the crew. But in the new film, The Fate of the Furious, that family will be challenged when the leader becomes the team’s biggest foe. Dom (Vin Diesel) is honeymooning with Letty (Michelle Rodriguez) in Cuba. Just chilling and driving the hottest car on the island, Dom remains the epitome […]

California. Sunshine, beautiful people and the California Highway Patrol. They are all present in the movie reboot of the television series CHiPS. Frank “Ponch” Poncherello (Michael Peña) is an FBI agent making the trip from Miami to the West Coast to help get to the bottom of a case involving some dirty cops in the California Highway Patrol. He’s paired up with a rookie named Jon Baker (Dax Shepard), who is magical on a bike but struggles in every other metric for an officer. While Ponch is looking for dirty cops, Jon is doing everything he can to save his […]

New to On Demand: The Lego Batman Movie In 2014, The Lego Movie brought us a unique and exciting brand of animation using the fabled Lego bricks with a funny and genuinely entertaining film for young and old. One of the characters who stood out in that film was the iconic Batman. It was only natural to give the Caped Crusader his own film, cleverly titled The Lego Batman Movie. From the opening credits, it is clear: Batman is the star of this movie. Will Arnett returns to provide the voice of the Caped Crusader and it is impossible to keep […]

New to On Demand: Beauty and The Beast Disney’s animated Beauty and the Beast is a classic film. So when I heard that Disney was producing a live-action reimagining of those iconic colorful scenes, I wondered if it could be as magical as the original. I’m here to say that with director Bill Condon at the helm, they did this film justice. The story is the classic that we know and love. A handsome prince (Dan Stevens) is turned into a ferocious beast, and all of those who have cared for him are frozen into everything from clocks to candlesticks. The […]

None of the teachers are ready for what the last day of school brings in the movie Fist Fight. The kids are wild and pranks are occurring at a rate that makes the national debt growth look slow. When one student takes things too far, Mr. Strickland (Ice Cube) destroys a desk. And when Mr. Campbell (Charlie Day) crumbles under pressure and snitches, it’s on — the teacher fight is about to become reality. Fights happen in schools, but they usually don’t involve the staff. This fight features two very different teachers. Mr. Strickland is the disciplinarian, ruling with an […]

The tales of Wolverine have been told in a number of X-Men movies. This time around, in the movie Logan, Wolverine is unleashed in an R-rated turn that delivers a sharp and cutting film. Logan (Hugh Jackman) is hiding out. He is trying to protect Professor Charles Xavier (Patrick Stewart) from an unfriendly world. The Professor is not well and Logan’s job is to protect him from the world, and protect the world from any unfortunate accident that could occur as a result of the Professor’s illness. When a woman with a young girl approaches Logan and calls him by […]