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There are few things more likely to induce almost automatic cringing these days as discovering historical drama series on one of the many streaming services. Films and television series alike have always taken prolific liberties with adapting stories of bygone eras. All one has to do is mention The CW’s Reign to induce facial-ticks in […]

Netflix’s latest feature film release, Polar, is an enjoyable carnival ride of violence and mayhem that will directly appeal to fans of the Smokin’ Aces and John Wick family of films about assassins/agents who wind up being marked for “retirement” by their friendly local governments/crime bosses and they choose not to go down without a […]

There are few filmmakers as frustrating as M. Night Shyamalan – he has some considerable talents in creating an interesting premise, and his technical execution can be top notch- but when it comes to pulling it all together into an equally tidy complete package he fails. In Glass, there are so many of the right elements; […]

It happens often–two studios work on and release similar films. It happens far less often with documentaries, but the first month of 2019 changes that with streaming giants Hulu and Netflix BOTH releasing documentaries about one of the most infamous events of the modern age: The Fyre Festival. The Hulu documentary came out of nowhere, […]

HISTORY latest series Project Blue Book is the latest in the science-fiction family of shows that revolves around a partner team setting out to uncover unexplained mysteries. The team will of course be comprised of one skeptic and another individual who is more open to alternative explanations. Chris Carter’s X-Files is of course the benchmark at this […]

Bird Box is one of those films that just appeared relatively out of nowhere on the top of Netflix’s, “suggested for you” listing. Sure, another horror flick on Netflix, that’s hardly remarkable, but then one notices the names in the cast, it reads both as a set one wouldn’t regularly expect in a genre piece […]

Remember that moment of shock on watching X-Men: First Class and walking out of the theater and thinking, wow, that was actually really good? That’s about the same feeling you can expect after watching the latest installment of the Transformers franchise, Bumblebee. [rwp-review-recap id=”0″] In the same fashion that it took bringing in fresh writers […]

Warner Bros. has managed to pull off another perfectly serviceable entry into their DC Extended Universe of films with Aquaman. Is it great or memorable? No, neither of those terms are likely to be at the forefront while you exit the theater, but that doesn’t mean it’s not a fun way to kick back for […]

Fair warning first and foremost- if you haven’t caught up with season 4 of STARZ’s Outlander, you may want to at least watch episode 7 “Down the Rabbit Hole” before continuing reading. Because thar will be spoilers. We knew at the tail end of s4e6 that Brianna Randall (Sophie Skelton) was heading back in time […]

Let’s be honest, since the first trailers started to emerge, Mortal Engines has seemed to be a film that the studio had no idea how to sell to audiences. Based on the book series by Philip Reeve with a screenplay adapted by Lord of the Rings authors Peter Jackson Philippa Boyens, and Fran Walsh,  it has suffered […]