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Tonight we’ll be live blogging about tonight’s episode of The Walking Dead at 6pm PST. This will be during the initial West Coast broadcast, so we’ll be watching and chatting about it as it airs. After the episode completes, the hour’s worth of chatter in all it’s glory will still be here along with reader comments, so if you haven’t yet watched the episode, assume that everything said below will be spoilers.

[rwp-review-recap id=”0″]   Jackie is a film that needs to be looked at from a few different perspectives: it’s a biopic that looks at a time in the country’s history that has become near-mythic (the events around the assassination of President Kennedy and it’s immediate aftermath), and also through the eyes of the person at […]

Moana delivers on pretty much every front, Disney didn’t disappoint with this Polynesian inspired tale. This is probably one of the most classically “Disney” fairytales they’ve put to film in a long time, bringing back that tradition of an animated story that inspires, tugs the heartstrings, and leaves you humming songs as you leave the […]

Director Robert Zemeckis’s Allied is a beautifully designed and executed story about two spies who fall in love. Sounds a little cheesy by that description, but running assassination ops in the middle of Casablanca will do that, apparently. This is Brad Pitt back in his element, this being his 4th World War II role, which he […]

Allied is a straightforward enough premise – two agents (Brad Pitt and Marion Cotillard) meet up to conduct an assassination operation in 1942 Casablanca, and the two agents manage to escape back to England.. Only later do questions emerge, which side are they actually on.

Disney has long been the benchmark for brilliant family-oriented musical fare, and their newest entry, Moana, is a worthy new addition to that lineage. With an evolved animation style and set in a world that they’ve never really delved into before (unless you want to count Lilo & Stitch since it was at least set on Kaua’i).

We finally start getting some answers with what happened to Maggie and Sasha after the end of the season opener. After having had to go through two spotlight episodes out of the last three, it seems the showrunners are in no hurry to change that trend, so this time we get to focus the bulk of the episode around Maggie at Hilltop, some side time with Carl and Enid get some young couple take a walk through the zombie-infested wilderness time.

It’s been more than five years since we last got to spend time in J.K. Rowling’s wizarding world on the big screen, and this adventure of magizoologist Newt Scamander (Eddie Redmayne) throws the audience right back into the thick of it. Inspired by the first-year required reading book at Hogwarts of the same name, the film while not perfect is still a great return to the world of magic and the various creatures and races that inhabit it.

As any first year Hogwarts student knows, Newt Scamander’s Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them contains the history of Magizoology (magical animals) and describes 85 species found around the world.  What we didn’t know, really, was how Mr. Scamander helped bring dark wizard Grindelwald to justice in New York City in the 1920s. JK Rowling created […]

Arrival had all the promise of being something special, something interesting in a filmland of remakes and reimaginings. The trailers alone were stunning, and we were really hoping this would be good. The story Arrival is based on the award-winning novella Story of Your Life by Ted Chiang, which was published in 1998. Unfortunately, the film […]