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With the last outing of the John Wick franchise winding up with an international box office haul of $172 million against a production cost of $40 million, it’s no great shock to find out that Lionsgate has put a date on it’s calendars for the Keanu Reeves vehicle John Wick: Chapter 3 – May 17th, 2019. […]

[rwp-review-recap id=”0″] Stephen King’s properties are again making the rounds as tentpole film events — just a few months ago we had The Dark Tower, and now we have another of his literary classics, It, taking the jump to the big screen. Originally published back in ’86 and widely celebrated at the time, this new […]

It’s rare enough to actually come across a good horror film these days. Get Out and It Follows being some of the recent exceptions to the generally lackluster slashers and found-footage fests that have become the norm. Even more rare is a horror sequel that’s still effective, and Annabelle: Creation, being the fourth installment in […]

The time is getting closer to the September 8th opening of It, the reboot film based on Stephen King’s novel from relative newcomer director Andrés Muschietti (his only real prior feature credit was from the 2013 horror film, 2013). How the adaptation works out remains to be seen but the marketing machine continues to roll along […]

[rwp-review-recap id=”0″] To start off with, yes, I read books — I just haven’t happened to have read any of the nine Stephen King novels which make up his self-described “magnum opus”, The Dark Tower. So in this case, it’s one of those occasions without any particular background perspective beyond what I’ve seen in the […]

[rwp-review-recap id=”0″] In Atomic Blonde, we first meet Lorraine Broughton, the MI-6 agent played by Charlize Theron, as she rolls over in an ice filled bathtub covered from head to toe in wicked bruising. No fuss, no muss — she is as battle-damaged as they come, but she’s chilling down under ice and then climbs […]

[rwp-review-recap id=”0″] The first thing that has to be said about Valerian And The City Of A Thousand Planets, is that for any fan of the science fiction genre – this film goes into the list of titles that are simply required viewing. Ironically at the same time it can’t be said that this is […]

[rwp-review-recap id=”0″] World War II movies are pretty standard fare, as there’s been more than 70 years to crank them out and to fine tune their various approaches. However when one comes along that stands out, it doesn’t kind of stand out, it’s simply not in the same league as the other ones that have […]

[rwp-review-recap id=”0″] Wish Upon is a hard one to review, because different people are definitely going to come out of it with widely varying responses to it. The general storyline is pretty straightforward: Claire (played by Joey King), a high school girl in the lower ranks of the social structure, is bullied constantly, and having […]

[rwp-review-recap id=”0″] With more than a decade since Spider-Man last had a great solo film, it almost felt like those halcyon years of Sam Raimi’s first two installment might have been unicorns. But now it seems that director Jon Watts has led another one out of the forest and the drought is finally over with […]