Movie & Television Reviews

The latest such gambit vulgarly ventriloquizes dogs and results in the mangy comedy “Strays.”

The resilience of the indestructible loving family, in this case, a Mexican American clan, forms the heart and soul of “Blue Beetle” (Warner Bros.).

Director Neill Blomkamp’s lively against-the-odds tale recounts the unlikely career of working-class Welsh lad Jann Mardenborough (Archie Madekwe).

The Last Voyage of the Demeter registers as competent but uneven, with its evident artistic intent barely justifying the quarts of blood spilt as its plot unfolds.

Seafood goes bad, very bad, very quickly. So, too, does the dead fish-scented sequel “Meg 2: The Trench” (Warner Bros.)

Good but gruesome more or less sums up “Resident Evil 4” (Capcom).

Things get dark down under in the Australian horror yarn “Talk to Me.”