Author: Bill Watters

Perhaps the fourth time will be better than the third – Variety is reporting that Legendary Entertainment has secured the film and television rights for the classic science fiction Dune properties from the author’s estate.

Disney / Pixar today dropped the first official teaser trailer for next Summer’s release of Cars 3, and it’s definitely got a different vibe of any other Cars trailer that we’ve seen in the past. The guess would be that it’s just setting up the basic idea of what might happen in the story, but then the actual film will handle it along the lines of the light-hearted fare we’re used to in the series. For NASCAR fans, seeing the image of Lightning McQueen in an uncontrolled crashing roll would probably have the same impact as the opening sequence in Up! (emotions and tears). While Pixar has long been good at playing with the heartstrings, we’re not sure if they’re up to a film with this level of grit.

It’s been more than five years since we last got to spend time in J.K. Rowling’s wizarding world on the big screen, and this adventure of magizoologist Newt Scamander (Eddie Redmayne) throws the audience right back into the thick of it. Inspired by the first-year required reading book at Hogwarts of the same name, the film while not perfect is still a great return to the world of magic and the various creatures and races that inhabit it.

[rwp-review-recap id=”0″] Doctor Strange is Marvel’s latest entry into the pantheon of their wider Cinematic Universe which includes all of the films other than the X-Men and Fantastic Four (both franchises are both held in a death grip by Fox) and until his appearance in Captian America: Civil War, Spiderman (which is only loosely being […]

[rwp-review-recap id=”0″] One thing we rarely expect to find when dealing with sequels and prequels to below-average horror films is that they’re an improvement over the original. Generally the best that can be hoped for is that it’s at least on par with whatever came before. Ouija: Origin of Evil is one of those rare […]

[rwp-review-recap id=”0″] While we’ve never been sold on Ben Affleck’s performance as Batman, his latest performance as Christian Wolff in The Accountant is a wonderful case of casting. One doesn’t typically think of pen-pushing accountants as being the most effective (or exciting) of roles for a top crime world agent, but the script by Bill Dubuque […]

[rwp-review-recap id=”0″] At this point Canadian director Denis Villeneuve seems to be just showing off. Nearly every one of his feature films have garnered some level of award season consideration, including three academy award nominations on his last round out with Sicario. Now with his latest film, Arrival, it feels that the bar is already suitably […]

[rwp-review-recap id=”0″] The irony of the use of the title The Birth of a Nation is not lost on viewers today: the 1915 film (so just over a century ago) with the same title had been a tale of the founding of the Ku Klux Klan as a heroic force to help save the perceived […]

[rwp-review-recap id=”0″] It feels like only a few years ago that the oil spill from the Deepwater Horizon’s damaged wellhead was spreading across the Gulf of Mexico like an ever-expanding zombie outbreak. But for all that we know about the spill and it’s aftermath, the details around what happened leading up to the explosion and […]

[rwp-review-recap id=”0″] With the continued popularity of the Walking Dead, there’s been no lack of zombie films and television shows over the last few years. Unfortunately they’re typically incredibly lackluster, with most just running variations of a handful of well-worn story themes. Sometimes there’s just ones that are exceptionally exciting like Train to Busan, but […]