Cinema Royale

Travis Hopson of Cinema Royale and Punch Drunk Critics reviews Western thriller THE THICKET, starring Peter Dinklage, Juliette Lewis, Levon Hawke, Gbenga Akinnagbe, Leslie Grace, and Esme Creed-Miles. When fierce bounty hunter Reginald Jones (Peter Dinklage) is recruited by a desperate man to track down a ruthless killer known only as Cutthroat Bill (Juliette Lewis), he rallies a band of unlikely...

Travis Hopson of Cinema Royale and Punch Drunk Critics reviews Tim Burton's BEETLEJUICE BEETLEJUICE starring Tim Burton, Winona Ryder, Catherine O'Hara, Jenna Ortega, Justin Theroux, Monica Bellucci, and Willem Dafoe! After an unexpected family tragedy, three generations of the Deetz family return home to Winter River. Still haunted by Beetlejuice, Lydia’s life is turned upside down when her rebel...

Travis Hopson of Punch Drunk Critics reviews GREEDY PEOPLE starring Himesh Patel, Jordan-Levitt, and Lily James! In this darkly comedic crime thriller, rookie cop Will (Himesh Patel) and his rogue partner Terry (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) upend their small island town when they accidentally discover one million dollars at a crime scene (of their own making). After the duo unwisely decides to steal the...

Travis Hopson of Cinema Royale and Punch Drunk Critics reviews Zoe Kravitz's BLINK TWICE starring Naomi Ackie and Channing Tatum! When tech billionaire Slater King (Channing Tatum) meets cocktail waitress Frida (Naomi Ackie) at his fundraising gala, sparks fly. He invites her to join him and his friends on a dream vacation on his private island. It’s paradise. Wild nights blend into sun-soaked day...

Travis Hopson of Cinema Royale and Punch Drunk Critics reviews THE CROW reboot starring Bill Skarsgard, FKA twigs and Danny Huston! Soulmates Eric Draven (Skarsgård) and Shelly Webster (FKA twigs) are brutally murdered when the demons of her dark past catch up with them. Given the chance to save his true love by sacrificing himself, Eric sets out to seek merciless revenge on their killers, travers...

Travis Hopson of Cinema Royale and Punch Drunk Critics reviews SKINCARE, a true-crime thriller starring Elizabeth Banks, Nathan Fillion, Luis Gerardo Méndez, and Lewis Pullman. In SKINCARE, famed aesthetician Hope Goldman (Elizabeth Banks) is about to take her career to the next level by launching her very own skincare line, but her personal and work lives are challenged when rival facialist Angel...

Travis Hopson of Punch Drunk Critics reviews Chiwetel Ejiofor's ROB PEACE, starring Jay Will, Ejiofor, Mary J. Blige, and Camila Cabello. Directed, adapted by, and starring Academy Award® nominee Chiwetel Ejiofor (12 YEARS A SLAVE), ROB PEACE follows the true story of a brilliant young man (Jay Will) torn between his father’s shadowed past and his own promising future. Raised by his devoted mother...

Travis Hopson of Cinema Royale and Punch Drunk Critics reviews Paul Feig's action-comedy JACKPOT! starring Awkwafina, John Cena, and Simu Liu!  In the near future, a ‘Grand Lottery’ has been newly established in California – the catch: kill the winner before sundown to legally claim their multi-billion dollar jackpot. When Katie Kim (Awkwafina) moves to Los Angeles, she mistakenly finds herself wi...

Travis Hopson of Punch Drunk Critics reviews Fede Alvarez's ALIEN: ROMULUS starring Cailee Spaeny, David Jonsson, Isabela Merced, Archie Reneaux, Spike Fearn, and Aileen Wu. Set between the events of Alien and Aliens, the story concerns a group of young space colonists who, while scavenging a derelict space station, come face to face with the most terrifying life form in their universe. ALIEN: ROM...

Travis Hopson of Cinema Royale and Punch Drunk Critics reviews CUCKOO starring Hunter Schafer, Dan Stevens, Jessica Henwick, and Marton Csokas! Reluctantly, 17-year-old Gretchen leaves her American home to live with her father, who has just moved into a resort in the German Alps with his new family. Arriving at their future residence, they are greeted by Mr. König, her father’s boss, who takes an...

Travis Hopson of Punch Drunk Critics reviews Eli Roth's BORDERLANDS, the video game move starring Cate Blanchett, Kevin Hart, Ariana Greenblatt, Florian Munteanu, Jamie Lee Curtis, Jack Black, and Edgar Ramirez.  Lilith (Blanchett), an infamous bounty hunter with a mysterious past, reluctantly returns to her home, Pandora, the most chaotic planet in the galaxy. Her mission is to find the missing d...

Travis Hopson of Cinema Royale reviews IT ENDS WITH US, the adaptation of Colleen Hoover's bestselling book starring Blake Lively, Justin Baldoni, Jenny Slate, and Brandon Sklenar. “IT ENDS WITH US, the first Colleen Hoover novel adapted for the big screen, tells the compelling story of Lily Bloom (Blake Lively), a woman who overcomes a traumatic childhood to embark on a new life in Boston and cha...

Travis Hopson of Punch Drunk Critics and Cinema Royale gives his reaction to Marvel Studios' huge SDCC '24 panel from over the weekend, and all of the gigantic announcements and footage! All of this and more can be found at Punch Drunk Critics: https://www.punchdrunkcritics.com Subscribe to Punch Drunk Critics on YouTube:    / @punchdrunkcritics1   Follow Punch Drunk Critics on Twitter:    / pdcmo...

DEADPOOL & WOLVERINE is finally here! The long-awaited team-up of Ryan Reynolds' Wade Wilson and Hugh Jackman's Logan has hit the MCU, and is it the greatest superhero movie EVER?!? Check out the spoiler free review from me, Cinema Royale and Punch Drunk Critics' Travis Hopson and Joblo.com's Chris Bumbray! All of this and more on a new episode of Cinema Royale, which you can find anywhere tha...

Travis Hopson of Cinema Royale reviews TWISTERS starring Glen Powell and Daisy Edgar-Jones! Edgar-Jones stars as Kate Cooper, a former storm chaser haunted by a devastating encounter with a tornado during her college years who now studies storm patterns on screens safely in New York City. She is lured back to the open plains by her friend, Javi (Golden Globe nominee Anthony Ramos, In the Heights)...

Travis Hopson of Cinema Royale reviews MY SPY THE ETERNAL CITY starring Dave Bautista and Chloe Coleman!  Back by popular demand, My Spy’s dynamic duo, veteran CIA operative JJ (Dave Bautista) and his 14-year-old stepdaughter and protégé Sophie (Chloe Coleman), reunite to save the world when a high school choir tour of Italy is interrupted by a nefarious nuclear plot targeting the Vatican. MY SPY...

Travis Hopson of Cinema Royale reviews serial killer film LONGLEGS starring Maika Monroe and Nicolas Cage. Set in 1974, the film focuses on Lee Harker, a new FBI agent, who has been assigned to an unsolved case of a serial killer. As the investigation becomes more complicated with occult evidence uncovered, Harker realizes a personal link to the killer and must act quickly to prevent another famil...

Travis Hopson of Cinema Royale reviews FLY ME TO THE MOON, a NASA rom-com starring Channing Tatum and Scarlett Johansson. Starring Scarlett Johansson and Channing Tatum, FLY ME TO THE MOON is a sharp, stylish comedy-drama set against the high-stakes backdrop of NASA’s historic Apollo 11 moon landing. Brought in to fix NASA’s public image, sparks fly in all directions as marketing maven Kelly Jones...

Travis Hopson of Cinema Royale reviews Lee Tamahori's THE CONVERT starring Guy Pearce. Lee Tamahori’s action-filled historical epic stars Guy Pearce as Thomas Munro, a newly arrived preacher in a colonial town in early 19th-century New Zealand who finds himself at the center of a long-standing battle between two Māori tribes. THE CONVERT is in theaters and VOD now. All of this and more can be foun...

Travis Hopson of Punch Drunk Critics reviews MAXXXINE, the final film in Ti West and Mia Goth's horror trilogy about the deadly cost of Hollywood fame!  In 1980s Hollywood, adult film star and aspiring actress Maxine Minx finally gets her big break. But as a mysterious killer stalks the starlets of Hollywood, a trail of blood threatens to reveal her sinister past. MAXXXINE is in theaters now.  All...

Travis Hopson reviews DESPICABLE ME 4, featuring the voices of Steve Carell, Kristen Wiig, and Will Ferrell!  Following the 2022 summer blockbuster phenomenon of Illumination’s Minions: The Rise of Gru, which earned almost $1 billion worldwide, the biggest global animated franchise in history now begins a new chapter as Gru (Oscar® nominee Steve Carrell) and Lucy (Oscar® nominee Kristen Wiig) and...

Breakdown, takedown, shakedown, you’re busted! On the latest episode of Cinema Royale, the heat is on as I’m joined by the biggest Beverly Hills Cop fan I know, Joblo.com‘s Chris Bumbray, to talk about Eddie Murphy’s return in Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F! Plus, I’m recording this episode on July 4th, so I’m sporting one of many Captain America-themed shirts even though this is no time to feel patrio...

Grab your colors, open the throttle, and get ready to hit the open road! We’re talking Jeff Nichols’ The Bikeriders on this episode of Cinema Royale! I’m joined by my homie Chris Bumbray, editor-in-chief of Joblo.com to discuss Nichols’  motorcycle club drama  starring Tom Hardy, Jodie Comer, Austin Butler, and of course Michael Shannon is in it he’s in every Jeff Nichols movie! Released a year la...

Travis Hopson of Cinema Royale reviews Renny Harlin's THE STRANGERS: CHAPTER 1, the first of a new trilogy in the horror franchise. The film stars Madelaine Petsch and Froy Gutierrez. After their car breaks down in an eerie small town, a young couple (Madelaine Petsch and Froy Gutierrez) are forced to spend the night in a remote cabin. Panic ensues as they are terrorized by three masked strangers...

Travis Hopson of Cinema Royale review BACK TO BLACK, with Marisa Abela starring as tragic blue singer Amy Winehouse. Directed by Sam Taylor-Johnson, the film also stars Eddie Marsan, Jack O'Connell, and Lesley Manville. BACK TO BLACK is in theaters now. The extraordinary story of Amy Winehouse’s early rise to fame from her early days in Camden through the making of her groundbreaking album, Back t...