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[rwp-review-recap id=”0″] When first seeing the trailer for Split, I was all hyped. Not only am I a fan of thrillers, but also of James McAvoy. Then the cruel reality dawned on me that it was yet another film from the once-heralded M Night Shyamalan and my enthusiasm (and hopes) died like most of the storylines of […]

Here’s a twist: Split doesn’t suck! One of two things happen when you say “M. Night Shyamalan has a new movie coming out”.  You either laugh hysterically or pause and ask about the premise. Split sort of had both reactions, mostly because it’s been well over a decade since M. Night produced a film of substance, […]

[rwp-review id=”0″] With 20th Century Women, indie film production house A24 continues their trend in recent years of delivering some really great films. Penned and directed by Mike Mills, Women is a coming of age story set in Santa Barbara, California towards the end of the 1970s. Dorothea (Annette Benning) is a hippie mom trying to […]

20th Century Women is the film Boyhood SHOULD have been.  I’m not saying Boyhood was bad, but it didn’t deliver as high of an emotional impact for me personally.  Every generation will find something to relate to in this film, even though it takes place in 1979 primarily.  Some things are universal, like mothers who try their hardest […]

Live By Night is a film adapted by Ben Affleck from the 2012 novel of the same name by Dennis Lehane.  Set in the 1920s and 1930s, the story follows Joe Coughlin (Ben Affleck), the prodigal son of a Boston police captain. After moving to Florida, he becomes a bootlegger and a rum-runner and, later, a notorious […]

A Monster Calls is not going to be the ‘must see’ film this holiday season. It really isn’t everyone’s cup of tea, and that is a downright shame. Probably one of the most beautiful trailers of the year, right behind Collateral Beauty: Based on Patrick Ness’s fantasy novel, A Monster Calls uses many of the late […]

Denzel Washington’s passion project shows that when he has a vision, he is willing to take the long road if it means getting it right. Fences is a powerful and brilliantly acted film adaptation of the late playwright August Wilson’s stage production about an African-American family living in Pittsburgh in the mid-1950s.

Rating: 4.5 stars out of 5. This time of year, a lot of movies that get “limited” releases in the days before the New Year are just meant as award bait – they’re tossed in there because they’ve got the right combination of elements that the Academy just falls all over itself to vote for. […]

Rating: 4.5 stars out of 5 A Monster Calls is not an easy movie to watch. It’s a brutally honest portrayal of a boy who is enduring the slow loss of his mother from terminal cancer and his dealing with the anguish via a monster summoned from his imagination. I don’t know of many films […]

[rwp-review-recap id=”0″] The Autopsy of Jane Doe is one of those films that you’ll likely come across almost by accident. It’s a small budget film (it’s not another kickstarter-micro budget as IM Global funded the production), but Norwegian director André Øvredal makes the most of it in his first American outing. The action takes place almost entirely […]