Contributor: Bob Smithouser

Benjamin Franklin Gates (a cross between Indiana Jones and Rodney Dangerfield) is searching for a vast fortune left behind by our Founding Fathers.

Families could wander into this dud unaware of its corrupt content, that’s what.

Laughs by the Gross? Hollywood humor has gone from lowbrow to no-brow.

Ever since ‘Twister’ turned a natural disaster into box-office gold, Hollywood has tried to repeat that feat … in pairs.

In his latest romantic comedy, director Garry Marshall creates a sweet bond between two mentally challenged Gen-Xers.

Adam Sandler and Drew Barrymore are busy romancing each other again. Only this time, he’s forced to win her over every single day because she’s can’t ever remember last night’s date!

“Squanto: A Warrior’s Tale” is the action-packed story of one real-life Native American whose passion for peace blazed the trail for the first Thanksgiving.

When Daisy Werthan, an aging Southern matron, nearly wrecks her brand-new 1948 Packard backing it out of the driveway, her wealthy son hires Hoke, a kind black man, to serve as her chauffeur.

An iguanodon egg is plucked from its nest and sent on a wild journey before hatching in the company of primates. A lemur family proceeds to raise the three-ton lizard, named Aladar.

The title character is sweet, smart, strong, noble, and the most modest heroine to inhabit a Disney cartoon since “Beauty and the Beast.”

The film does a good job of making ignoble characters sympathetic, inspiring viewers to side with three criminals and one adulteress, while jeering local law enforcement.

Do teens really need another coming-of-age comedy that plumbs for laughs with vulgarity, homosexuality and substance abuse?

Two years after the events of the first film, we find Stuart fully acclimated into the pristine Little clan.

Father Kiernan is less a man of faith than a man of science. He’s paid by the Vatican to investigate unusual phenomena …

Lucky Numbers is a black comedy about rotten people doing rotten things to each other, all in the name of greed.