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Tis’ the season of award giving, and today while Southern California was all caught up in Star Wars premiere fever, Northern California saw the San Francisco Film Critics Circle come together to vote for their winning slate of films, actors, and creators from 2017. The 50 members of the San Francisco critic’s community went against […]

[rwp-review-recap id=”0″] After three films set against the backdrop of World War II, and one of which is Christopher Nolan’s Dunkirk, I hadn’t gone into Darkest Hour with much enthusiasm. I generally expect Gary Oldman to be solid in his performance, but really — have audience really been wallowing around yearning for yet another Churchill […]

[rwp-review-recap id=”0″] Guillermo del Toro is back in top form in The Shape of Water. It’s a mashup of genres, blending monster, romance, and a period setting into an artistic beauty. Doug Jones (whom del Toro also worked with most recently in Crimson Peak) is one of the few actors who can consistently emote through a […]

Well, it’s only taken nearly three decades for the bad taste of one of Stephen King’s worst film adaptations to fade. While Pet Sematary remains one of King’s great underappreciated novels, its original 1989 film entirely excised vast chunks of the book — unfortunately, they were the parts that contained the connective threads. Variety is […]

The day kept on getting longer for Bryan Singer. News had previously emerged earlier today that 20th Century Fox had fired Singer from his role as director of the band Queen’s biopic, Bohemian Rhapsody. Now Hollywood Reporter has learned that Singers production company Bad Hat Harry has been rapidly vacating it’s offices which it had […]

Bleeding Cool contributor Jason Borelli writes from his recent experience at Anime NYC: Anime NYC wrapped up its inaugural event at the Jacob Javits Center in New York by showcasing Fullmetal Alchemist. The live-action film is based on the popular manga by Hiromu Arakawa, which led to two anime series that aired on Cartoon Network […]

We’re following along as the Los Angeles Film Critics Association has their daylong fete and votes on their favorite films from the past year. There’ll be films ranging from the start of the year, all the way up to ones that haven’t yet released. We’ll be adding commentary as the winners and runner-ups are announced […]

[rwp-review-recap id=”0″] The Disaster Artist, a film about the making of a film, exudes a sense of near-obsession with its subject. That subject is The Room, the 2003 indie film that is considered either the most brilliant art-film ever or the worst insult to filmmaking of all time. If Ed Wood and his legendarily bad films like […]

[rwp-review-recap id=”0″] Murder on the Orient Express, based on the classic mystery novel by Agatha Christie and put through the lens of director Kenneth Branagh (who also plays the lead role of Hercule Poirot), is a beautiful adaptation — but still carries with it the eccentricities of having been written in 1934. Now, before racing to the […]

If you never read a single Agatha Christie story or know who Hercule Poirot is, you probably have little to no interest in Murder On The Orient Express.  Sorry that sounds kind of terrible, but it’s the first thing that’s popped in my head after leaving the theater. This certainly won’t be for everyone, but those […]