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Dwayne Johnson, Jack Black, Karen Gillan, and Kevin Hart star in the sequel-reboot to 1995’s ‘Jumanji.’ But there’s few laughs and little suspense.

Everyone just wants to escape with their lives and return to their original bodies in the new remake.

Cate Blanchett is in a phase of her career I would describe as… interesting. She is clearly unafraid of ambitious projects – Knight of Cups, Song to Song – experimental ones – playing 13 characters in Manifesto – and as one may say, rather off-brand though totally exciting ones, like playing a Marvel villain for Taika Waititi. But her most head-turning choice of late is a role in an Eli Roth film.

Class is in session. Sadly, legions of kids know this to be true, as they begin to head back to school for another year of filling their brains with knowledge.

Thanks to the new trailer for 'Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle,' we're going to be extra careful about any retro video games we try to play.

The only people who still regularly play board games are adults: 30-somethings who drink craft beer, elderly people who get bored and raid the nursing home activity closet, my mom’s overly-competitive boyfriend. Some kids play them, sure — but it’s usually begrudgingly during forced “family night,” or if they come from one of those homes without TVs and where the only magazines are Highlights. There’s a reason why you can play Monopoly and Scrabble on your iPhone now, which is why it’s not surprising that the new Jumanji movie doesn’t center around a tangible board game, but a video game.

Board games are sort of perfect for the current Hollywood franchise model. Board games are both recognizably familiar and new every single time you play. They end, but they can always be restarted by clearing the board and resetting the points to zero...

Although Goosebumps didn’t do crazy-amazing business at the box office, the 2015 film based on R.L. Stine’s prolific youth horror franchise did well enough — more importantly, the surprisingly delightful adaptation appealed to fans of all ages with a style and tone reminiscent of ’80s family horror flicks. If you were a fan of Goosebumps, then you’re surely a fan of today’s news, as Sony is moving ahead on a sequel with original director Rob Letterman and screenwriter Darren Lemke in talks to return.

Whether it’s Game of Thrones, The Walking Dead or The Hunger Games, you’ve surely seen one of the Bad Lip Reading videos on YouTube. They take a movie or TV show (or footage from football games) and re-record the dialogue with hilarious results. Today they’ve finally set their sights on the original Star Wars trilogy and they’ve brought along some famous friends for the ride.

The monsters have broken free from their books, and Jack Black has to force them back inside.

The new comedy Hot Pursuit starring Sofia Vergara and Reese Witherspoon is out this weekend. Also, on limited release, you have the Arnold Schwarzenegger zombie movie called Maggie, a documentary about the guy who plays Big Bird on Sesame Street and a Jack Black movie called The D Train which is about a high school reunion...

The Academy Awards are being televised tonight and it got me thinking about some of the funny things that have happened on the show since it's live. In fact, I remember a few hilarious moments on the Academy Awards.