Movie & Television Reviews

Gosh darn those pesky wormholes! One day, you’re living in the safety of an early 1980s suburb and the next you find that your entire neighborhood has somehow been transported to the era when dinosaurs roamed — and ruled — the Earth.

On Sept. 23, 2017, some 20,000 congregants gathered at Oklahoma City’s Cox Convention Center for the beatification of Father Stanley Rother. It was a landmark event in that Father Rother was the first U.S priest to be declared blessed on the basis of martyrdom.

The following are capsule reviews of theatrical movies available now for streaming or scheduled for broadcast on network or cable television during the week of Aug. 23, as well as notes on TV programming for the same week.

Macho bickering is the order of the day in the moronic ensemble comedy “Super Troopers 3” (Searchlight). Much of the humor — like practically all of the dialogue — moreover, seems to have been fished out of a gutter.

The following are capsule reviews of theatrical movies available now for streaming or scheduled for broadcast on network or cable television during the week of Aug. 16, as well as notes on TV programming for the same week.

Comedian Kevin Hart headlines the trashy fish-out-of-water comedy “72 Hours” (Netflix). Though intended to be warm and good-hearted at its core, the film is too encrusted in innumerable coarse elements to make this nucleus of niceness worth discovering.

The following are capsule reviews of theatrical movies available now for streaming or scheduled for broadcast on network or cable television during the week of Aug. 9, as well as notes on TV programming for the same week.

The following are capsule reviews of theatrical movies available now for streaming or scheduled for broadcast on network or cable television during the week of Aug. 2, as well as notes on TV programming for the same week.