The Fast and the Curious (George): Rampage, reviewed.

Naomie Harris, Dwayne Johnson, and Jason Liles as George (Warner Bros.)

Nearly four interminable months after Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle, a movie based on a movie based on a children's book and appended with a 30-year-old Guns N' Roses jam, Dwayne Johnson—the once and future Rock and 2032 Instagram Party presidential candidate—is back. In a movie, in the legal sense, based on a video game.

My NPR review of Rampage (from the director of San Andreas!) is here. I'm not sure who it was at Warner Bros. and or New Line who forgot to put the exclamation point in the title, but I trust that heads shall (the) roll.

The Fault Not in Our Stars: San Andreas, reviewed.

The Rock and Carla Gugino do a decent job of reacting to things that aren't there. (Warner Bros. Pictures)

I went with my friend and colleague Heather to see San Andreas, and we felt saw the Earth move. That the film really seems not to notice that its fireman chopper-pilot hero is a deserter and a thief is part of the fun. My NPR review, which opens with a discussion of the 1974 Universal Pictures release Earthquake — written by Mario Puzo the same year as The Godfather, Part II! — is here.

Richard Roundtree played a "daredevil motorcyclist."