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I have a guilty pleasure when it comes to romantic comedies, I’ll admit it. I’ve seen 50 First Dates, My Best Friend’s Wedding, and Bridget Jones’s Diary more times than I’d like to admit. I’ve largely enjoyed Rebel Wilson’s performance across the 1st and 3rd Pitch Perfect movies (let’s all ignore the second one even existed). […]

There’s nothing at all wrong with moderate-budget/limited-cast science fiction films that are more thought experiments than robots and explosions. So stepping into Netflix’s latest entry IO–with a total cast of three, and a trailer that looks like a variation on the Last Person on Earth theme–there wasn’t any particular reason for trepidation. Unfortunately, it feels like […]

These days it seems like you can’t throw a bucket of popcorn in a movie theater without hitting at least one cinema-focused podcaster. They come in varying flavors but primarily tend to be contemporary film reviews. There are others that focus on the industry, writing, gossip and more, but one that’s been running for a […]

Netflix’s latest feature film release, Polar, is an enjoyable carnival ride of violence and mayhem that will directly appeal to fans of the Smokin’ Aces and John Wick family of films about assassins/agents who wind up being marked for “retirement” by their friendly local governments/crime bosses and they choose not to go down without a […]

There are few filmmakers as frustrating as M. Night Shyamalan – he has some considerable talents in creating an interesting premise, and his technical execution can be top notch- but when it comes to pulling it all together into an equally tidy complete package he fails. In Glass, there are so many of the right elements; […]

Bird Box is one of those films that just appeared relatively out of nowhere on the top of Netflix’s, “suggested for you” listing. Sure, another horror flick on Netflix, that’s hardly remarkable, but then one notices the names in the cast, it reads both as a set one wouldn’t regularly expect in a genre piece […]

Remember that moment of shock on watching X-Men: First Class and walking out of the theater and thinking, wow, that was actually really good? That’s about the same feeling you can expect after watching the latest installment of the Transformers franchise, Bumblebee. [rwp-review-recap id=”0″] In the same fashion that it took bringing in fresh writers […]

Warner Bros. has managed to pull off another perfectly serviceable entry into their DC Extended Universe of films with Aquaman. Is it great or memorable? No, neither of those terms are likely to be at the forefront while you exit the theater, but that doesn’t mean it’s not a fun way to kick back for […]

Let’s be honest, since the first trailers started to emerge, Mortal Engines has seemed to be a film that the studio had no idea how to sell to audiences. Based on the book series by Philip Reeve with a screenplay adapted by Lord of the Rings authors Peter Jackson Philippa Boyens, and Fran Walsh,  it has suffered […]

In most cases, that headline might seem like ridiculous hyperbole, but when it comes to Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, the film is simply the best interpretation of the comic book story experience to the big screen. That’s not to say there aren’t other brilliant comic-based films, but to date those are adaptations to live action, […]