Author: Bill Watters

[rwp-review-recap id=”0″] Don’t Breathe turns one thing that’s common in the horror genre on it’s head: most often films will start with a solid concept, but then they break down by the third act into a typical cat and mouse game and too often with leaps of logic to tie the ends together. Breathe decides […]

[rwp-review-recap id=”0″] The catalog of films which involves one or two intrepid but down on their luck fellows that suddenly come across a get rich quick idea is hardly a limited one. They vary from the smart and clever to the funny to the ironic. War Dogs is one of the cut from the headlines […]

[rwp-review-recap id=”0″] Sausage Party is one film that I really didn’t expect to like. Actually even after the movie started, I thought how unbelievably crass are we going to get? Well, now I know; some things can just not be unseen. Written by Seth Rogen, Evan Goldberg, Kyle Hunter and Ariel Shaffir, it seems that they […]

It was fairly late Monday night after the Suicide Squad screening when everyone had finally assembled for the group Skype call with Disney. Variety and The Hollywood Reporter had been there before everyone else, and BuzzFeed was trying to convince us they’d been there first but was having “connection issues”. ScreenCrush came in at the […]

[rwp-review-recap id=”0″] We’ve all heard about the beleaguered path to the big screen for DC’s latest installment into their Extended Universe franchise of films, Suicide Squad. A rushed script development, multiple edits, Deadpool appeared on the scene causing Warner Bros to second guess their approach to Suicide Squad causing reshoots and another round of edits. […]

[rwp-review-recap id=”0″] It would be a challenge to try to pick out which franchise was more of a copy/rinse/repeat approach to it’s storyline, Taken, or Jason Bourne. Right now it really does feel like Bourne has pulled ahead with this latest installment. After five films, you know exactly what the pattern is going to be: […]

[rwp-review-recap id=”0″] It was only a few years ago that the Zombie genre was utterly let down by the screen adaptation of World War Z. Since then we’ve largely limped along with random indies or in-joke films. Every time we get another brain-eating film coming out they have too often felt like a Walking Dead […]

[rwp-review-recap id=”0″] In 2009, writer/director and general geek oracle J. J. Abrams performed a near miracle by rebooting the Star Trek franchise with level of success that few people – fans or detractors had suspected. Jumping forward four years Abrams’ Trek ran entirely off the rails with the trainwreck of a film with Into Darkness. Three years […]

[rwp-review-recap id=”0″] Let’s get this right out of the way, the new Ghostbusters film has some fine leads. From the four ghostbusters themselves: Melissa McCarthy, Kristen Wiig, Kate McKinnon, and Leslie Jones to the 2016 version of the receptionist, this time played by Chris Hemsworth – they are all solid ensemble players. McKinnon has a solid […]

[rwp-review-recap id=”0″] There are a number of genres where the typical story arc has been done so many times, there’s almost no surprises along the way. Beyond the possible amount of interest the film’s protagonist might have, most of the surrounding characters may as well be interchangeable from any of dozens of similar films. In […]