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20 years between films might seem long, but director Danny Boyle knew what he was about with T2 Trainspotting.  Do you remember in the late 90’s-early 2000’s there was a massive treasure trove of well done indie films?  This T2 (non terminator) really harkens back to that golden age of super special and important storytelling. The original […]

[rwp-review-recap id=”0″] Simply put, Get Out, the new film from writer/director Jordan Peele is very likely going to wind up being the best horror film of 2017. I realize it’s only February, and there’s a lot of other big-hitters coming out this year, but I think we’ll hit December 31st and be able to look back and find […]

A Cure For Wellness on the surface has everything an audience could want in a highly stylized supernatural thriller. Much like how “Dracula” begins with young Jonathan Harker being sent off to the mountains to retrieve a co worker, young Lockhart (Dane DeHaan) is similarly sent by his financial firm from New York to the Swiss alps to […]

[rwp-review-recap id=”0″] As a horror fan, A Cure for Wellness is an interesting mix of plot elements from a wide range of genre films. It’s about three parts Shutter Island, two parts Phantom of the Opera, and one part each for The Strain and Frankenstein. Dane DeHaan (Amazing Spider-Man 2’s Harry Osborn) plays Lockhart, an ambitious […]

Legendary’s The Great Wall was good.  I’m as surprised as anyone, but for a mindless fantasy-war epic, the enjoyment far outweighed the ridiculous spectacle.  Despite the great black-lash of casting Hollywood darling Matt Damon in a film about the Great Wall of China, his presence is far less bothersome than you’d expect. The Great Wall […]

[rwp-review-recap id=”0″] Ah those halcyon days where the school bully gets in trouble because of the school wimp and the bully challenges the wimp to a fight. In Fist Fight the spin is that the two in question aren’t students but teachers. The wimp wants to get out of it, but his efforts only makes […]

[rwp-review-recap id=”0″] We’ve been looking forward to FX’s Legion ever since the trailer was first shown back in July at San Diego Comic-Con. As it turns out, the partnership between FX and Marvel Television has resulted in yet another innovative take on the superhero genre. Just as when they took to Netflix with Daredevil, they […]

[rwp-review-recap id=”0″] It’s almost Valentine’s Day, and it’s that magical time every few years that around the same time we get another installment in the Fifty Shades series – this time with Fifty Shades Darker. It’s when kinky-leaning people come out for a good laugh, and those of a supremely straight-laced persuasion come in to see […]

[rwp-review-recap id=”0″] Gold is one of those films that you watch, maybe enjoy while you’re watching it, but then a few hours after you’ve left the theater it’s largely entirely left your thoughts. You find that you have to work at thinking back to recalling the details of the story. Sure the main plot points […]

A Dog’s Purpose is a film that will make you curl up into a ball and cry like a little girl.  I say that because there were two 10 year old girls sitting in front of me at my screening who sobbed.  A lot. The film is based on the New York Times’ best selling novel […]