Author: Bill Watters

The Los Angeles Times is reporting that the  family of George Romero, creator of the modern-era zombie and horror film genre, has told him that the filmmaker has died at the age of 77. He passed following a brief but aggressive battle with lung cancer, according to a statement given to the Times by is […]

BBC America has thrown the Whovian fandom into a frenzy, with the casting reveal of their 13th actor to play Doctor Who’s titular role of The Doctor – Jodie Whittaker, who was most recently one of the leads in BBC’s Broadchurch. Whittaker said: I’m beyond excited to begin this epic journey – with Chris and with […]

[rwp-review-recap id=”0″] Wish Upon is a hard one to review, because different people are definitely going to come out of it with widely varying responses to it. The general storyline is pretty straightforward: Claire (played by Joey King), a high school girl in the lower ranks of the social structure, is bullied constantly, and having […]

Buckhorn, South Dakota resident and former high school principal William “Bill” Hastings has been being held on charges of aggravated murder of the school’s librarian, Ruth Davenport. Now it seems that things have gone from bad to worse for the principal as Bleeding Cool has been told that FBI Deputy Director Gordon Cole, along with several other […]

[rwp-review-recap id=”0″] With each successive historically-inspired television series that comes along, it seems that there’s a competition to get further and further away from anything approaching reality. Looking back now on 1998’s Elizabeth and Showtime’s The Tudors, the furor about historical accuracy in anything from costuming to what people actually did around those seems almost […]

[rwp-review-recap id=”0″] With more than a decade since Spider-Man last had a great solo film, it almost felt like those halcyon years of Sam Raimi’s first two installment might have been unicorns. But now it seems that director Jon Watts has led another one out of the forest and the drought is finally over with […]

Even as events continue to try to dial in better dates for their respective regions, the convention calendar continues to get more crowded by the day. One of the Midwest’s longer-running conventions, Planet Comicon Kansas City, has announced new, far earlier dates than what it had in recent years: President’s Day weekend, February 16th–18th. That […]

[rwp-review-recap id=”0″] Sequels coming out of Hollywood are a terribly mixed bag, with most falling far short of their original installment. Far more rare than a well-made sequel is a well-made third entry into a series (Rise of the Machines, Alien 3, Superman 3, Iron Man 3, just to name a few). 20th Century Fox […]

Disney has released the first animated short film in the new Star Wars: Forces of Destiny series, titled Sands of Jakku. Focused on the women characters of the Star Wars universe, it will wind up with a total of sixteen initial episodes. Kathleen Kennedy, Co-Chairman of The Board and President of Lucasfilm, described the series […]

[rwp-review-recap id=”0″] After three movies, one would have hoped that studio Illumination would have refined their stories to take their sometimes super-agent, sometimes super-villain and his merry band of banana-loving minions and give them something insightful to do. Failing that they might expand on their repertoire of jokes. Unfortunate they really haven’t come up with […]