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[rwp-review-recap id=”0″]   Jackie is a film that needs to be looked at from a few different perspectives: it’s a biopic that looks at a time in the country’s history that has become near-mythic (the events around the assassination of President Kennedy and it’s immediate aftermath), and also through the eyes of the person at […]

Moana delivers on pretty much every front, Disney didn’t disappoint with this Polynesian inspired tale. This is probably one of the most classically “Disney” fairytales they’ve put to film in a long time, bringing back that tradition of an animated story that inspires, tugs the heartstrings, and leaves you humming songs as you leave the […]

Allied is a straightforward enough premise – two agents (Brad Pitt and Marion Cotillard) meet up to conduct an assassination operation in 1942 Casablanca, and the two agents manage to escape back to England.. Only later do questions emerge, which side are they actually on.

Disney has long been the benchmark for brilliant family-oriented musical fare, and their newest entry, Moana, is a worthy new addition to that lineage. With an evolved animation style and set in a world that they’ve never really delved into before (unless you want to count Lilo & Stitch since it was at least set on Kaua’i).

We finally start getting some answers with what happened to Maggie and Sasha after the end of the season opener. After having had to go through two spotlight episodes out of the last three, it seems the showrunners are in no hurry to change that trend, so this time we get to focus the bulk of the episode around Maggie at Hilltop, some side time with Carl and Enid get some young couple take a walk through the zombie-infested wilderness time.

It’s been more than five years since we last got to spend time in J.K. Rowling’s wizarding world on the big screen, and this adventure of magizoologist Newt Scamander (Eddie Redmayne) throws the audience right back into the thick of it. Inspired by the first-year required reading book at Hogwarts of the same name, the film while not perfect is still a great return to the world of magic and the various creatures and races that inhabit it.

Arrival had all the promise of being something special, something interesting in a filmland of remakes and reimaginings. The trailers alone were stunning, and we were really hoping this would be good. The story Arrival is based on the award-winning novella Story of Your Life by Ted Chiang, which was published in 1998. Unfortunately, the film […]

[rwp-review-recap id=”0″] Doctor Strange is Marvel’s latest entry into the pantheon of their wider Cinematic Universe which includes all of the films other than the X-Men and Fantastic Four (both franchises are both held in a death grip by Fox) and until his appearance in Captian America: Civil War, Spiderman (which is only loosely being […]

[rwp-review-recap id=”0″] One thing we rarely expect to find when dealing with sequels and prequels to below-average horror films is that they’re an improvement over the original. Generally the best that can be hoped for is that it’s at least on par with whatever came before. Ouija: Origin of Evil is one of those rare […]

Just when we think we don’t need more movies based on boardgames, Ouija: The Origin of Evil scares it’s way into theaters.  If you’ll recall, we’ve already had a film in this franchise, back in 2014.  Sure, it maybe wasn’t a genre redefining turn, but it wasn’t too bad. Someone thought that meant we should TOTALLY […]