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[rwp-review-recap id=”0″] There are a number of genres where the typical story arc has been done so many times, there’s almost no surprises along the way. Beyond the possible amount of interest the film’s protagonist might have, most of the surrounding characters may as well be interchangeable from any of dozens of similar films. In […]

[rwp-review-recap id=”0″] The first Purge film with it’s home-invasion theme was novel in it’s being an ultra-violent commentary on social and economic classes and how little it would seem to take normal suburbia and turn it into a murder zone. For those that might not have seen the earlier films, the idea is that every […]

[rwp-review-recap id=”0″] So, let’s get the Elephant in the room out of the way to begin with – in the 21st century, nearly any film about Tarzan (and European colonialism in general) is going to be a bit rife with racial storylines that is going be awkward to explain. The Legend of Tarzan does it’s […]

[rwp-review-recap id=”0″]   Twenty years ago writer Dean Devlin and director Rolan Emmerich ushered in the modern era disaster blockbuster with a film that’s never been called by its given name – it’s always been ID4 rather than Independence Day. It set the set the bar for everything from the Transformers franchise to the modern […]

[rwp-review-recap id=”0″] By this point most people who are at least of college age have committed some amount of hours, days, or weeks playing Blizzard’s World of Warcraft. Many of us have played it for so long, we can all but close our eyes and know the paths through Azeroth’s forrests, we know which shops […]

[rwp-review-recap id=”0″] X-Men: Apocalypse marks the ninth installment in Fox’s attempts to dial in the right combination to get a hit out of Marvel’s classic team of Mutants. Even going in with a strong desire to enjoy the latest installment wasn’t enough to prevent coming away with the sense of bleak resignation that Fox’s path […]

[rwp-review-recap id=”0″] The Nice Guys is a film that fits cleanly and snugly into writer/director Shane Black’s legacy in film – and that would be he was also the fellow who brought us both the Lethal Weapon movies as well as the tragically under-appreciated Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang. This time it’s not a buddy cop film, […]

[rwp-review-recap id=”0″] Captain America: Civil War is the thirteenth entry into Marvel’s Cinematic Universe. As such it comes in with a great deal of on-screen canon behind it, ranging from the first Iron Man film back in 2008 to last year’s Ant-Man. By this time most of the characters are familiar and we know the […]

[rwp-review-recap id=”0″] Green Room is an incredibly well made Punk Rock thriller that is one of those films that the cast and trailer along give the impression it’ll be good, but by the time it’s over and the credits roll you’re leaning over to the person next to you saying, “dang that was good.” The cast […]

[rwp-review-recap id=”0″] Warner Bros. is doing all it can to try to outdo Fox when it comes to how fast it can run their primary superhero property down the drain. Where it should be geek fans having the eternal debates of who would win in a fight between superheroes, instead it’s a conversation of which […]