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Let’s talk about America’s Next Top Model cycle 24 episode 8, “Beauty Is Social”. The remaining 7 contestants will be testing their social media chops this week, taking on media maven roles to compete in a digital campaign for supermodel Jourdan Dunn’s Londunn clothing line. Also, if you missed it last week, you can catch up […]

If you were that age bracket born in the mid-late ’80s, chances are Everything Sucks on Netflix is the retro high school show for you. Much like how Stranger Things appeals to ’80s kids for all the callbacks to period things (toys, fashions, set dressing), Everything Sucks does it for the mid-’90s crowd, in a mostly dramedy format. […]

I finally got to sit down and finish watching Duncan Jones’s Mute on Netflix, and am still struck by what a beautiful and sometimes horrifying film it was. That’s not to say it was bad; far from it, really. Since it was announced as a thing, I’ve been really looking forward to seeing what the Moon director had […]

[rwp-review-recap id=”0″] Red Sparrow has been compared to Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, but that entirely undersells Sparrow. Where Tinker was droll and predictable, Sparrow actually carries along the thread of an interesting story to keep the audience engaged. Clocking in at nearly two and a half hours, one thing the film is not is in […]

[rwp-review-recap id=”0″] Let’s get one thing out of the way right off the top about Annihilation: if you are a fan of the original book of the same name by Jeff VanderMeer, you will likely be in a bit of a shock as the cinematic version releasing in theaters is very different. It might almost be […]

Game Night was surprisingly fun and enjoyable.  I’m just gonna say that right away, because you readers know I generally don’t enjoy most of the modern comedy films I’ve seen the last year or two.  (Points to Fist Fight because that was a pile of crap.) You’ve seen the trailer for Game Night by now I’m assuming, which […]

It’s only February, but the film offerings this year have already been pretty great.  Annihilation is right up there, although it does fall a bit flat in the last act. From the mind of writer/director Alex Garland (Ex Machina, 28 Days Later) based on Jeff VanderMeer’s best-selling Southern Reach Trilogy, Annihilation is a strong entry into science fiction/horror.  […]

[rwp-review-recap id=”0″] Game Night finally breaks Jason Bateman’s losing streak of horrible low-brow comedies. After such dumpster fires as Office Christmas Party, The Longest Week, Mansome, and Identity Thief, we finally get a fun comedy that doesn’t spend it’s entire length trying to come up with ever more tasteless jokes.  The jokes read like the […]

We’ve made a lot of jokes about how FOX’s Red Sparrow is pretty much the solo Black Widow movie we’ve never gotten, but it really is, in some strange way.  True, the film is based on a book by former CIA operative Jason Matthews that was published in 2014, but seriously. If you see this movie, be […]

Let’s talk about America’s Next Top Model cycle 24 episode 7, “Beauty Is Raw”. Sure, I’m behind by two days, but the Olympics (oh my gods, that women’s hockey gold medal match from last night was INTENSE, man) have been all up in my TV pretty much nonstop. “Beauty Is Raw” sure seemed like was going […]