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[rwp-review-recap id=”0″] After three movies, one would have hoped that studio Illumination would have refined their stories to take their sometimes super-agent, sometimes super-villain and his merry band of banana-loving minions and give them something insightful to do. Failing that they might expand on their repertoire of jokes. Unfortunate they really haven’t come up with […]

There are so few GOOD examples of remakes and reboots in the world, but the one that leaves them all in the dust is 2011’s Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes.  Who would have thought the much maligned yet treasured 60s franchise would translate so strongly to modern CGI and audiences? I try really hard […]

[rwp-review-recap id=”0″] Let’s be honest, at this point if you’re going to plop down cash to go see Michael Bay’s latest installment in the Transformers franchise, Transformers: The Last Knight, you pretty much know what you’re getting into. It packs in the regular combination of as many Transformers marketing opportunities as possible and some of […]

Transformers: The Last Knight wasn’t terrible and I’m kind of pissed off about it. After sitting through all four previous Paramount Transformers films over the weekend leading up to my screening of #5, I was all ready to write this one off too.  I was shocked at how ‘adult’ the first film was, the casual cursing […]

[rwp-review-recap id=”0″] Caught a press screening of The Bad Batch, the new movie by Ana Lily Amirpour, who made a splash in 2014 with her quirky Iranian vampire movie A Girl Walks Alone at Night, which was shot in California. That established Amirpour as a filmmaker with a unique voice, and now she’s working on […]

You know that thing in zombie movies where it’s like no one in the movie has ever SEEN A ZOMBIE MOVIE? The same thing seems to happen when it comes to almost ALL the modern shark flicks.  47 Meters Down on the surface looks really promising, the strong trailer really helps sell it after the […]

It was 11 years ago when audiences first met Lightning McQueen, the cgi racecar with a big attitude voiced by Owen Wilson in the first Cars movie. Director John Lasseter  brought these vehicular characters to life, with a story of personal discovery and growth, but told from the point of view of sentient cars.  We’ve had a sequel, […]

[rwp-review-recap id=”0″] Going into the screening, I’d done my best to avoid other picking up too much on other writer’s impressions about 47 Meters Down, but I couldn’t help but notice various headlines equating it to Steven Spielberg’s classic film Jaws. After having seen the latest installment in the humans-as-sharkbait genre of films, I am […]

[rwp-review-recap id=”0″] So at this point Cars has been one of the cash cows for Pixar and for parent company Disney. It’s ironic given that of all of the Pixar entries, Cars isn’t really among it’s best works (you’ll have to go back to Up, WALL-E, and Toy Story for the real gems). To that end, […]

[rwp-review-recap id=”0″] Ok, stop me if you’ve heard this one: a group of guys or gals is out to celebrate a last night of freedom for one of them before they get married/go off to college/retire/whatever, they drink too much and/or do some drugs, and various misadventures ensue. So to that end, Rough Night is […]