Browsing: Red Sparrow

I’ll admit it right off: I do not want or need a new Battlestar Galactica. Ron Moore’s reimagined series is the touchstone example of how to take an existing franchise and update it, modern story and modern casting at it’s best.  For whatever reason, Universal decided in 2014 it was time (already, wth) to redo the […]

[rwp-review-recap id=”0″] Red Sparrow has been compared to Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, but that entirely undersells Sparrow. Where Tinker was droll and predictable, Sparrow actually carries along the thread of an interesting story to keep the audience engaged. Clocking in at nearly two and a half hours, one thing the film is not is in […]

We’ve made a lot of jokes about how FOX’s Red Sparrow is pretty much the solo Black Widow movie we’ve never gotten, but it really is, in some strange way.  True, the film is based on a book by former CIA operative Jason Matthews that was published in 2014, but seriously. If you see this movie, be […]