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[rwp-review-recap id=”0″] The catalog of films which involves one or two intrepid but down on their luck fellows that suddenly come across a get rich quick idea is hardly a limited one. They vary from the smart and clever to the funny to the ironic. War Dogs is one of the cut from the headlines […]

Ben Hur is NOT a film I thought would get remade in my lifetime.  Director Timur Bekmambetov (Wanted, Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter) embarked on a journey to bring a ‘re-adaptation’ of the “GREATEST STORY EVER TOLD” to the big screen in 2016, bringing audiences a slightly more faithful version of  Lew Wallace’s 1880 novel.  Surprising, yes, […]

War Dogs is a film about two young gentlemen (who partake of the smoke) who started a company to fulfill military weapon/government contracts. Specifically, a $300 million deal to supply an insane amount of AK-47 rounds to the Afghan forces. The story comes from this article from Rolling Stone author Guy Lawson from 2011.  You […]

[rwp-review-recap id=”0″] Sausage Party is one film that I really didn’t expect to like. Actually even after the movie started, I thought how unbelievably crass are we going to get? Well, now I know; some things can just not be unseen. Written by Seth Rogen, Evan Goldberg, Kyle Hunter and Ariel Shaffir, it seems that they […]

Seth Rogen’s R rated animated Sausage Party sure looked promising from the trailer.  Good solid voice talent who’ve worked together NUMEROUS times, albeit some misses in there. And there is no doubt in my mind there is a huge audience out there who will LOVE this film, it just wasn’t for me. Sausage Party is like Toy […]

[rwp-review-recap id=”0″] We’ve all heard about the beleaguered path to the big screen for DC’s latest installment into their Extended Universe franchise of films, Suicide Squad. A rushed script development, multiple edits, Deadpool appeared on the scene causing Warner Bros to second guess their approach to Suicide Squad causing reshoots and another round of edits. […]

[rwp-review-recap id=”0″] It would be a challenge to try to pick out which franchise was more of a copy/rinse/repeat approach to it’s storyline, Taken, or Jason Bourne. Right now it really does feel like Bourne has pulled ahead with this latest installment. After five films, you know exactly what the pattern is going to be: […]

[rwp-review-recap id=”0″] It was only a few years ago that the Zombie genre was utterly let down by the screen adaptation of World War Z. Since then we’ve largely limped along with random indies or in-joke films. Every time we get another brain-eating film coming out they have too often felt like a Walking Dead […]

How excited were we when The Killing Joke animated film was announced as a sure thing?  Add on to that the electric joy when Kevin Conroy, Mark Hamill, and Tara Strong were confirmed as the main voice talents as Batman, Joker, and Batgirl respectively. Toss in another extra few points due to the R rating of […]

[rwp-review-recap id=”0″] In 2009, writer/director and general geek oracle J. J. Abrams performed a near miracle by rebooting the Star Trek franchise with level of success that few people – fans or detractors had suspected. Jumping forward four years Abrams’ Trek ran entirely off the rails with the trainwreck of a film with Into Darkness. Three years […]