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[rwp-review-recap id=”0″] These days, Tom Cruise is in a rather odd position as a Hollywood star: people expect him to be solid in his roles, but they don’t really expect him to do anything that might be award-worthy, either. He always gives a full-court-push, regardless of the project he’s in at the time, be it Rock […]

It’s rare enough to actually come across a good horror film these days. Get Out and It Follows being some of the recent exceptions to the generally lackluster slashers and found-footage fests that have become the norm. Even more rare is a horror sequel that’s still effective, and Annabelle: Creation, being the fourth installment in […]

[rwp-review-recap id=”0″] To start off with, yes, I read books — I just haven’t happened to have read any of the nine Stephen King novels which make up his self-described “magnum opus”, The Dark Tower. So in this case, it’s one of those occasions without any particular background perspective beyond what I’ve seen in the […]

Fans of Stephen King have always been highly polarized on film adaptations of his novels, and The Dark Tower looks to follow in that proud tradition.  Referred to by King as his “opus”, the 8 book series was originally published in 1982, and has even been done in comic form. The film got a rough start, […]

[rwp-review-recap id=”0″] In Atomic Blonde, we first meet Lorraine Broughton, the MI-6 agent played by Charlize Theron, as she rolls over in an ice filled bathtub covered from head to toe in wicked bruising. No fuss, no muss — she is as battle-damaged as they come, but she’s chilling down under ice and then climbs […]

It’s been long enough since the madness of Fury Road that we needed a Charlize Theron kicking ass film again. Atomic Blonde is just that, a slow burn spy drama that I can only describe as the greatest Black Widow movie we’re ever going to get. Atomic Blonde is also a little Kingsman, but more grown up. […]

When someone with Christopher Nolan‘s filmography has a passion project, you REALLY start to hope it gets made.  When the resulting film is a war epic like Dunkirk, you thank your lucky cinema stars and appriciate the struggle to get to the finish line. In May 1940 during WWII, Germany advanced into France, trapping Allied troops on […]

[rwp-review-recap id=”0″] Wish Upon is a hard one to review, because different people are definitely going to come out of it with widely varying responses to it. The general storyline is pretty straightforward: Claire (played by Joey King), a high school girl in the lower ranks of the social structure, is bullied constantly, and having […]

[rwp-review-recap id=”0″] With more than a decade since Spider-Man last had a great solo film, it almost felt like those halcyon years of Sam Raimi’s first two installment might have been unicorns. But now it seems that director Jon Watts has led another one out of the forest and the drought is finally over with […]

[rwp-review-recap id=”0″] Sequels coming out of Hollywood are a terribly mixed bag, with most falling far short of their original installment. Far more rare than a well-made sequel is a well-made third entry into a series (Rise of the Machines, Alien 3, Superman 3, Iron Man 3, just to name a few). 20th Century Fox […]