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When I was nine years old, I saw a movie called Cop and a Half starring Burt Reynolds as a cop who teams up with a young black boy (Norman D. Golden II) to solve a murder. It's a better movie than you probably remember, and one I liked quite a bit as a kid. Michael Dowse's new Netflix movie Coffee & Kareem is cut from the same crime comedy cloth, but its target audience is decidedly different. Cop and a Half was rated PG and aimed at families, whereas Coffee & Kareem is very much an R-…...

From Arnold Schwarzenegger to Dwayne Johnson, macho actors who have wanted to take a break from intense action movies have frequently turned to family-friendly comedies that also allows them to reach a more mainstream audience. But starring with a child co-star a third your age and size means you’ll have to wear a tutu or dance like a doofus, maybe fall in something slimy or gross. Wrestler turned action star John Cena is the latest to make this pivot with “Playing With Fire,” opening this weekend. Here are some other examples of this genre of tough guys babysitting kids.

“Kindergarten Cop” (1990) – Arnold Schwarzenegger

“Kindergarten Cop” was not the first (or the last) goofy comedy Arnold Schwarzenegger would make, but only in this one does he berate at a classroom full of toddlers, play with a ferret and teach kids the basics about human anatomy. I would also argue that...

It seemed like a lot of fans were surprised to learn that after Jared Leto had been cast as The Joker in Suicide Squad, he was hardly in the film. We know that a lot of footage was shot of the character, but ultimately most of it ended up not being used. Like many of you, I assumed The Joker was going to have a much bigger part of the story. Instead, Cara Delevinge's Enchantress ended up being the main villain. Some fans didn't really care for her as the villain, while others seemed to embrace it. I actually kinda liked Enchantress. I liked her more that Leto's portrayal of The Joker. I know not everyone will agree with me on that. That's just my opinion.

Suicide Squad director David Ayer recently responded to a tweet from actor Norman D. Golden II, who recently watched the film for the first...

After more than 35 years on the air and hundreds of episodes, "At the Movies" -- formerly "Ebert & Roeper," formerly "Roger Ebert & The Movies," formerly "Siskel & Ebert," formerly "At the Movies" again, formerly "Sneak Previews" -- shot its final episode earlier this week for broadcast this weekend. In humble admiration for decades of outstanding work, we present our ten favorite reviews from the history of the show in no particular order.

"Cop and a Half" (1993)

Possibly one of the most infamous reviews of the Siskel & Ebert era, "Cop and a Half" was one of those delightful cases where the two not only profoundly disagreed about a film, but did so by speaking about it with far more intelligence and sincerity than its filmmakers ever likely intended. A lesser critic than Ebert would've been undermined by the images of precocious Norman D. Golden II firing a water pistol at Burt Reynolds'...