Author: Bill Watters

Well, the time has finally come – we’re at Doctor Who’s season ten finale and that means that something big is about to happen. Showrunner Steven Moffat characterizes the finale as our characters and situation as being: “Without hope, without witness, without reward”. This episode also mark Moffatt’s penultimate installment before he passes off the […]

[rwp-review-recap id=”0″] Let’s be honest, at this point if you’re going to plop down cash to go see Michael Bay’s latest installment in the Transformers franchise, Transformers: The Last Knight, you pretty much know what you’re getting into. It packs in the regular combination of as many Transformers marketing opportunities as possible and some of […]

Warner Bros. and Legendary Picture’s installments into their MonsterVerse franchise continues to roll along as principal photography having begun on Godzilla: King of the Monsters,  their follow up to this year’s Kong: Skull Island and 2014’s Godzilla. It’s being directed by X-Men: Apocalypse and Superman Returns’ writer Michael Dougherty and written by both Dougherty and Zach […]

[rwp-review-recap id=”0″] Caught a press screening of The Bad Batch, the new movie by Ana Lily Amirpour, who made a splash in 2014 with her quirky Iranian vampire movie A Girl Walks Alone at Night, which was shot in California. That established Amirpour as a filmmaker with a unique voice, and now she’s working on […]

Once upon a time, Neill Blomkamp, the wunderkind who basically popped out of nowhere and brought us a relatively fresh spin on the alien invasion genre with District 9, pitched a proposal for Alien 5 to Fox and to Ridley Scott. Fox was interested, too, but then Scott decided he wanted to keep that sandbox […]

Wizard World’s annual tour has again returned to Sacramento, where thousands of fans will be descending on the Sacramento Convention Center through Sunday evening. We headed out there today to take in some of the sights, a few panels, and to generally see how it all felt as the event is now entering it’s fourth […]

[rwp-review-recap id=”0″] Going into the screening, I’d done my best to avoid other picking up too much on other writer’s impressions about 47 Meters Down, but I couldn’t help but notice various headlines equating it to Steven Spielberg’s classic film Jaws. After having seen the latest installment in the humans-as-sharkbait genre of films, I am […]

[rwp-review-recap id=”0″] So at this point Cars has been one of the cash cows for Pixar and for parent company Disney. It’s ironic given that of all of the Pixar entries, Cars isn’t really among it’s best works (you’ll have to go back to Up, WALL-E, and Toy Story for the real gems). To that end, […]

[rwp-review-recap id=”0″] Ok, stop me if you’ve heard this one: a group of guys or gals is out to celebrate a last night of freedom for one of them before they get married/go off to college/retire/whatever, they drink too much and/or do some drugs, and various misadventures ensue. So to that end, Rough Night is […]

Some films usher in the start of a great franchise future, like Marvel’s Cinematic Universe kicking off with Iron Man. Others come off less stellar, like the recent King Arthur: Legend of the Sword, which was meant to be the start of a series of Arthurian films, that seems to have done so poorly that […]