Author: Bill Watters

Adi Tantimedh writes, Finished my second novel, so now I can go back to writing about pop culture. I’ve been having a perfectly good time watching FX’s LEGION, the show based on a character from the X-Men, specifically one created by Chris Claremont and Bill Sienkiewicz during their run on The New Mutants back in […]

SPOILER ALERT: Read only if you have already watched Sunday’s Something They Need episode of The Walking Dead, or if you don’t mind out finding what happened. If you include tonights episode Something The Need, The Walking Dead only has two more episodes left in season seven. The puzzle pieces are finally moving quickly into place […]

[rwp-review-recap id=”0″] When directors get the green light to make their passion projects, it often winds up on one of the two extreme ends. They either step outside of their normal box and create something that’s amazing (Denzel Washington’s Fences), or they make something that’s pretentious and unbelievably dull (Martin Scorsese’s Silence). Unfortunately Guardian’s of the […]

It was back in 1974 that the Movieland Wax Museum first unveiled the beginnings of a set of what would eventually seven life-sized wax figurines of the main cast of Star Trek. The figures included Spock, Uhura, Kirk, Bones, Scotty, Chekov, and Sulu. Not content to have just the cast, Movieland also built out the […]

News of Stan Lee’s collaboration with Studio DEEN on an anime project titled The Reflection has been floating around since late 2015 when an original series pitch video was released with a voiceover narration by Stan where he postulates: What would happen if a large group of humans throughout the planet suddenly gained mighty superpowers? How […]

No, it’s not part of some Downton Abbey Christmas episode, it’s a first image of Dan Stevens as none other than ol’ Boz himself, Charles Dickens. It’s for an upcoming film The Man Who Invented Christmas, set to hit theaters in late ’17. Set in 1843, a debt-ridden and dispirited Dickens wrote a short novel which he […]

[rwp-review-recap id=”0″] Sequels are usually a dodgy prospect in the best of circumstances; with T2 Trainspotting coming along more than two decades after 1996 original which had become an immediate cultural touchstone of the time, only puts it that much more of a disadvantage. In this case we have something remarkable, not only one of the […]

[rwp-review-recap id=”0″] The history of cinema is filled with stories about elderly cynical individuals (who are often portrayed as a few fries short of a Happy Meal) who no longer really fit into the world, but eventually find something to connect with that gives them a new lease on life or at least makes them […]

Rod Roddenberry, son of Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry has been definitely keeping himself and the family’s namesake company, Roddenberry Entertainment busy over the past few years. They’ve been busy between then philanthropic efforts of the Roddenberry Foundation, producing a range of science fiction short films, and now Executive Producing the next installment in the Trek franchise, Star […]

[rwp-review-recap id=”0″] Life has suffered from the outset by yet another case of the trailers giving away effectively the entirely plot of the film. Any follower of the alien/sci-fi genre of movies can write down everything that they will is going to happen, and will probably wind up being more than 90% right. Even without […]