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[rwp-review-recap id=”0″] While we’ve never been sold on Ben Affleck’s performance as Batman, his latest performance as Christian Wolff in The Accountant is a wonderful case of casting. One doesn’t typically think of pen-pushing accountants as being the most effective (or exciting) of roles for a top crime world agent, but the script by Bill Dubuque […]

[rwp-review-recap id=”0″] At this point Canadian director Denis Villeneuve seems to be just showing off. Nearly every one of his feature films have garnered some level of award season consideration, including three academy award nominations on his last round out with Sicario. Now with his latest film, Arrival, it feels that the bar is already suitably […]

[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 […]

[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 […]

[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 […]

[rwp-review-recap id=”0″] Sausage Party is one film that I really didn’t expect to like. Actually even after the movie started, I thought how unbelievably crass are we going to get? Well, now I know; some things can just not be unseen. Written by Seth Rogen, Evan Goldberg, Kyle Hunter and Ariel Shaffir, it seems that they […]

[rwp-review-recap id=”0″] It would be a challenge to try to pick out which franchise was more of a copy/rinse/repeat approach to it’s storyline, Taken, or Jason Bourne. Right now it really does feel like Bourne has pulled ahead with this latest installment. After five films, you know exactly what the pattern is going to be: […]

[rwp-review-recap id=”0″] It was only a few years ago that the Zombie genre was utterly let down by the screen adaptation of World War Z. Since then we’ve largely limped along with random indies or in-joke films. Every time we get another brain-eating film coming out they have too often felt like a Walking Dead […]

[rwp-review-recap id=”0″] Let’s get this right out of the way, the new Ghostbusters film has some fine leads. From the four ghostbusters themselves: Melissa McCarthy, Kristen Wiig, Kate McKinnon, and Leslie Jones to the 2016 version of the receptionist, this time played by Chris Hemsworth – they are all solid ensemble players. McKinnon has a solid […]