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[rwp-review-recap id=”0″] Wish Upon is a hard one to review, because different people are definitely going to come out of it with widely varying responses to it. The general storyline is pretty straightforward: Claire (played by Joey King), a high school girl in the lower ranks of the social structure, is bullied constantly, and having […]

[rwp-review-recap id=”0″] With each successive historically-inspired television series that comes along, it seems that there’s a competition to get further and further away from anything approaching reality. Looking back now on 1998’s Elizabeth and Showtime’s The Tudors, the furor about historical accuracy in anything from costuming to what people actually did around those seems almost […]

[rwp-review-recap id=”0″] With more than a decade since Spider-Man last had a great solo film, it almost felt like those halcyon years of Sam Raimi’s first two installment might have been unicorns. But now it seems that director Jon Watts has led another one out of the forest and the drought is finally over with […]

[rwp-review-recap id=”0″] Sequels coming out of Hollywood are a terribly mixed bag, with most falling far short of their original installment. Far more rare than a well-made sequel is a well-made third entry into a series (Rise of the Machines, Alien 3, Superman 3, Iron Man 3, just to name a few). 20th Century Fox […]

Even if you’re not a fan of modern WWF style wrestling, you will enjoy Netflix’s new series Glow.  Based on the events of the real Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling cable series from 1986, the new show chronicles the road to the ring and the personalities of the ladies of the first crop of lady wrestlers. […]

[rwp-review-recap id=”0″] Let’s be honest, at this point if you’re going to plop down cash to go see Michael Bay’s latest installment in the Transformers franchise, Transformers: The Last Knight, you pretty much know what you’re getting into. It packs in the regular combination of as many Transformers marketing opportunities as possible and some of […]

Transformers: The Last Knight wasn’t terrible and I’m kind of pissed off about it. After sitting through all four previous Paramount Transformers films over the weekend leading up to my screening of #5, I was all ready to write this one off too.  I was shocked at how ‘adult’ the first film was, the casual cursing […]

[rwp-review-recap id=”0″] Caught a press screening of The Bad Batch, the new movie by Ana Lily Amirpour, who made a splash in 2014 with her quirky Iranian vampire movie A Girl Walks Alone at Night, which was shot in California. That established Amirpour as a filmmaker with a unique voice, and now she’s working on […]

You know that thing in zombie movies where it’s like no one in the movie has ever SEEN A ZOMBIE MOVIE? The same thing seems to happen when it comes to almost ALL the modern shark flicks.  47 Meters Down on the surface looks really promising, the strong trailer really helps sell it after the […]

It was 11 years ago when audiences first met Lightning McQueen, the cgi racecar with a big attitude voiced by Owen Wilson in the first Cars movie. Director John Lasseter  brought these vehicular characters to life, with a story of personal discovery and growth, but told from the point of view of sentient cars.  We’ve had a sequel, […]