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Let’s cut right to the chase here: Solo: A Star Wars Story is not a bad film; in fact, it’s fairly good. However, whether someone finds it to be a good Star Wars film will be very much in the eye of the beholder. If you can let yourself get past the new actors in […]

For full disclosure, I have never liked Melissa McCarthy’s performances. In nearly every instance writers and directors have her doing lower-tier comedy and using her as the klutz with two left feet or as less than the very intelligent woman that she is. Even before the screening of Life of the Party had begin I […]

[rwp-review-recap id=”0″] When a film mires on the shelf at a studio after it’s in the can for a few years, it generally means one of two things — either the studio doesn’t have much confidence in it, or it doesn’t know how to market it. The Con is On is a new con-artist vs. […]

Ten years and eighteen films later, Marvel and Disney is releasing their grand culmination of their efforts, bringing nearly all of their heroes together for one epic mash up the likes of which cinema has never been seen before. Avengers: Infinity War hits the ground running with an intensity that manages to put itself into […]

[rwp-review-recap id=”0″] The aw-shucks fish out of water that we find in the latest Amy Schumer vehicle, I Feel Pretty, is far from original. If you’ve seen anything from A Devil Wears Prada to Working Girl to The Secret of My Success, you’ll find yourself in very familiar territory. But there’s nothing wrong with that, […]

[rwp-review-recap id=”0″] Let’s face it: whenever we see a trailer featuring Dwayne Johnson in the midst of some over-the-top action film, we know that the charm will come from watching him chewing up the scenery. In recent years it has only become more of a truism — from Moana to Baywatch to Jumanji, it’s been […]

[rwp-review-recap id=”0″] The Miracle Season is a film that will likely have a relatively limited shelf-life in theaters but wind up having a relatively devoted following once it settles into its run on streaming services. Directed by Sean McNamara from a script penned by David Aaron Cohen (the fellow who created Friday Night Lights), it’s […]

[rwp-review-recap id=”0″] With the vast wasteland of horrid comedies out there, I did not go into Blockers expecting much more than some frat-level humor, some piss jokes, and no real script to speak of beyond a checklist of contrived scenes. Well I have to admit to being more than pleasantly surprised by the thoughtfulness and […]

I have been absolutely dreading writing review-esque pieces about WB’s Ready Player One film. I don’t want to be angry, I don’t want to nitpick with every little “WELL, IN THE BOOK” statement that passes my lips when I talk about the movie (but a lot of this chat here will include those things), and I […]

[rwp-review-recap id=”0″] Whenever there’s a huge shift from one actor to another leading a familiar franchise there’s an awkward moment where we try to picture them following in the original’s shoes and wondering “can they pull it off”. When we heard that Alicia Vikander was going to be replacing Angelina Jolie as Lara Croft in the Tomb […]