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This week The Nun, the latest entry in the Conjuring series of films will begin haunting theaters. 2017’s Annabelle: Creation was a solid frightfest; and I had excitedly settled in to watch The Nun hoping it would have been cut from a similar cloth. When you’re coming into the fifth film in a horror franchise, one […]

I’m a massive Muppets fan, and while they haven’t always been featured in the best films, the pure fondness factor will earn a lot of latitude. When the trailer for The Happytime Murders first came along I was on cloud nine — a combination of gumshoe noir, a puppet-inhabited world, and set in a sex-fueled […]

Streaming services continue to serve as incubators and homes for indie and low-budget productions that only a few years ago would have only had a limited opportunity for an audience. However, times have changed, and now we can come across little gems like Prodigy, a laser-focused psychological thriller from first time feature writing and directing […]

Crazy Rich Asians has landed fresh off the boat and is going to make a huge splash regardless of final box office numbers or the Rotten Tomatoes score. In a similar vein to other recent “it’s about time” cinematic entries like Wonder Woman and Black Panther, its overall impact with its virtually entirely Asian casting […]

Sharks are perennially a sure thing when it comes to pop culture. Every year we get Shark Week, and SYFY still laughs all the way to the bank every time they kick out another Sharknado film. So when something like The Meg trailer came along, it was like blood in the water with fans of […]

In technology companies, one of the most tossed-around terms is an industry disruptor. It’s used frequently, but nearly always just marketing fluff. In the case of MoviePass, they most certainly did disrupt the way millions of people went to the movies. It was a simple enough idea: pay a single monthly fee and you can […]

Mission: Impossible – Fallout continues a trend basically unheard of in cinema when it comes to film franchises – that of getting better film after film. Sure there are some sequels that are better than the originals, but to do so over six films in a row? [rwp-review-recap id=”0″] Tom Cruise returns as Ethan Hunt […]

Unfriended: Dark Web, the latest thriller from Blumhouse Productions, is surprisingly fairly decent. It’s not because it’s a Blumhouse flick that I say that it’s surprising, because they’ve come up with a wide array of really solid films over the past 12 years, including Whiplash, Paranormal Activity, and The Purge. It’s because it’s a part of […]

Let’s be honest: whenever we see that Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson is starring in a film, we know that the movie isn’t likely to be mentioned much when award season comes around. However, audiences can generally bank on him chewing up the scenery and having a blast of a time doing it. When Johnson is having […]

Occupation is the latest upcoming outing from Australian writer/director Luke Sparke (Red Billabong). If you think Red Dawn, but with aliens rather than Soviets and Cubans as the invaders, you won’t be far off the mark. A group of town residents band together to fight back against an alien invasion. Turning to hit-and-run tactics rather […]