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[rwp-review-recap id=”0″] The irony of the use of the title The Birth of a Nation is not lost on viewers today: the 1915 film (so just over a century ago) with the same title had been a tale of the founding of the Ku Klux Klan as a heroic force to help save the perceived […]

Westworld is not a film we were expecting to get a remake anytime soon.  1973’s feature marked the first time author Michael Crichton directed, more importantly directed an adaptation based on one of his works.  Maybe you’ve heard this one before- company with a grand vision creates an amusement park with GRAND scale attractions and thinks […]

[rwp-review-recap id=”0″] It feels like only a few years ago that the oil spill from the Deepwater Horizon’s damaged wellhead was spreading across the Gulf of Mexico like an ever-expanding zombie outbreak. But for all that we know about the spill and it’s aftermath, the details around what happened leading up to the explosion and […]

[rwp-review-recap id=”0″] With the continued popularity of the Walking Dead, there’s been no lack of zombie films and television shows over the last few years. Unfortunately they’re typically incredibly lackluster, with most just running variations of a handful of well-worn story themes. Sometimes there’s just ones that are exceptionally exciting like Train to Busan, but […]

Deepwater Horizon is one of those films you don’t want to see necessarily. But rather you need to see to understand the events of that day.

[rwp-review-recap id=”0″] Don’t Breathe turns one thing that’s common in the horror genre on it’s head: most often films will start with a solid concept, but then they break down by the third act into a typical cat and mouse game and too often with leaps of logic to tie the ends together. Breathe decides […]

How excited were we when STARZ announced their Ash Vs The Evil Dead mini series? Answer: pretty damn excited, especially when the original creator/director Sam Raimi and Ash himself Bruce Campbell were on board. What can you really say about a low budget horror comedy that launched a thousand super 8 projects and inspired a […]

[rwp-review-recap id=”0″] The catalog of films which involves one or two intrepid but down on their luck fellows that suddenly come across a get rich quick idea is hardly a limited one. They vary from the smart and clever to the funny to the ironic. War Dogs is one of the cut from the headlines […]

Ben Hur is NOT a film I thought would get remade in my lifetime.  Director Timur Bekmambetov (Wanted, Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter) embarked on a journey to bring a ‘re-adaptation’ of the “GREATEST STORY EVER TOLD” to the big screen in 2016, bringing audiences a slightly more faithful version of  Lew Wallace’s 1880 novel.  Surprising, yes, […]

War Dogs is a film about two young gentlemen (who partake of the smoke) who started a company to fulfill military weapon/government contracts. Specifically, a $300 million deal to supply an insane amount of AK-47 rounds to the Afghan forces. The story comes from this article from Rolling Stone author Guy Lawson from 2011.  You […]