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Black Panther changed the MCU, without a doubt. From shattering box office expectations to inspiring a new generation of heroes, director Ryan Coogler created something for everyone with his Wakanda film. I’ve personally been really looking forward to getting my hands on the home release of the film, so I could dive back into the incredibly rich […]

[rwp-review-recap id=”0″] When a film mires on the shelf at a studio after it’s in the can for a few years, it generally means one of two things — either the studio doesn’t have much confidence in it, or it doesn’t know how to market it. The Con is On is a new con-artist vs. […]

The 6th and final season of FX’s Cold War era spy drama series The Americans continues with episode 6, “Rififi”. Last week, Paige (Holly Taylor) got into a bar brawl and made us all proud. Elizabeth (Keri Russell) was pretty pissed off about it, for multiple reasons.  Philip Jennings (Matthew Rhys) finally did the deed with […]

We keep saying it but Legion remains a high point of episodic television.  It’s trippy, very psychedelic, and strangely addictive. The story of mutants and mental powers being told in the rich visceral era the original Chris Claremont X-Men stories were placed in was a genius move, and one that sets the show appart on FX from any of […]

There is no arguing the impact James Cameron has had on the film industry.  From a piece of tape over a camera to create a signature effect in Escape From New York to resetting expectations of what CGI effects can be, Cameron has truly made himself a force in the art form. His newest project is a season […]

HBO’s highly acclaimed series Westworld is back, season 2 kicking off in earnest last week with episode 1, “Journey Into Night”. The wait has been long for fans of the show, the ending of season 1 leaving most viewers with more questions than answers. The premiere, following in the same first-season footpaths, did similar, leaving the […]

The late Tony Scott’s second directorial feature film The Hunger opened 35 years ago today, on April 29th in 1983. Still spoken about as a masterpiece of the vampire genre, the moody and dark horror romance holds up. Starring Catherine Deneuve, Susan Sarandon and David Bowie, the film is a very lose adaptation of Whitley Striber’s 1981 novel “The Hunger”. There is a doctor […]

The time has finally come, Marvel Cinematic Universe Fans, for Avengers: Infinity War. After 10 years and an astounding 18 freaking feature films, Thanos has come to face off with Earth’s mightiest heroes. It’ll be hard to talk about the results without spoilers, so a few ground rules.  One, I assume that you’ve seen the trailers.  […]

Ten years and eighteen films later, Marvel and Disney is releasing their grand culmination of their efforts, bringing nearly all of their heroes together for one epic mash up the likes of which cinema has never been seen before. Avengers: Infinity War hits the ground running with an intensity that manages to put itself into […]

The 6th and final season of FX’s Cold War era spy drama series The Americans continues with episode 5. Paige (Holly Taylor) dives right into some dangerous solo ops, doing exactly what her mother Elizabeth (Keri Russell) advised her NOT to do. It looks like Philip Jennings (Matthew Rhys) is officially back in the lifestyle in […]