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It’s always good when a film we’ve looked forward to is worth the wait, and Colossal certainly is. This is a completely different kind of monster movie, one that seeks to confront the root of uncontrollable destruction that dwells inside some of us.  Spanish writer/director Nacho Vigalondo completely delivers with this film. I’ll do my best not […]

[rwp-review-recap id=”0″] For full disclosure, I have not in fact ever read or watched Ghost in the Shell in any of its forms. I would have had to have been a hermit not to pass through the later 80s and into the 90s without at least encountering it’s fans and getting at least a passing […]

Scarlett Johansson was a terrible choice to front the live action adaptation of favorite anime Ghost In The Shell.  I’m leading with that because it’s the main thought I had leaving the theater.  She was boring, one dimensional, and brought the scenes featuring her down when she spoke.  This is probably not entirely her fault, but […]

SPOILER ALERT: Read only if you have already watched Sunday’s Something They Need episode of The Walking Dead, or if you don’t mind out finding what happened. If you include tonights episode Something The Need, The Walking Dead only has two more episodes left in season seven. The puzzle pieces are finally moving quickly into place […]

[rwp-review-recap id=”0″] When directors get the green light to make their passion projects, it often winds up on one of the two extreme ends. They either step outside of their normal box and create something that’s amazing (Denzel Washington’s Fences), or they make something that’s pretentious and unbelievably dull (Martin Scorsese’s Silence). Unfortunately Guardian’s of the […]

Guest reviewer Mister Sparta returns for his take on “Power Rangers”, the newest film franchise to the get the Hollywood reboot

[rwp-review-recap id=”0″] Sequels are usually a dodgy prospect in the best of circumstances; with T2 Trainspotting coming along more than two decades after 1996 original which had become an immediate cultural touchstone of the time, only puts it that much more of a disadvantage. In this case we have something remarkable, not only one of the […]

[rwp-review-recap id=”0″] The history of cinema is filled with stories about elderly cynical individuals (who are often portrayed as a few fries short of a Happy Meal) who no longer really fit into the world, but eventually find something to connect with that gives them a new lease on life or at least makes them […]

[rwp-review-recap id=”0″] Life has suffered from the outset by yet another case of the trailers giving away effectively the entirely plot of the film. Any follower of the alien/sci-fi genre of movies can write down everything that they will is going to happen, and will probably wind up being more than 90% right. Even without […]

“I have a great idea, let’s make a space movie that mashes up Alien and Gravity. Call it Life. Everyone will LOVE IT!” Life should not have found a way.  Every so often, you’ll sit through a movie that obviously thought it was something special.  This was one of those times, and if you paid attention to the trailers […]