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HBO is diving into the even deeper end of the allegorical genre fiction pool with its new series “Lovecraft Country.”…

Quentin Tarantino is one of cinema’s contemporary auteurs. When you’re going into a Tarantino film, you have a strong sense of what you’re in for – a highly stylized, violent, mythic version of the world. His pantheon of “Kill Bill,” “Hateful Eight,” “Django Unchained,” “Pulp Fiction,” and others all fit into that genre. Now with […]

The year 2017 in film is almost at a close, only a few more pictures have opening days set before December 31st. That’s actually the last day for a film opening to be eligible for Oscar contention, so there’s that. We (ok I) thought that maybe looking back at the year in our film reviews […]

  [rwp-review-recap id=”0″] It’s been 15 years since the first xXx film hit the big screens, 12 years since the entirely forgettable sequel, xXx: State of the Union, and now we have xXx: Return of Xander Cage. It is almost a relief that we can still get the occasional mindless action film that doesn’t think […]

A common refrain regarding most of 2016 was “please just let it be over”. One area in which that sentiment was definitely true was among the steady stream of ill-advised reboots and sequels. Rather than jump into the lineup of worst films, we wanted to touch on a lineup of some of the films that we had […]

[rwp-review id=”0″] With 20th Century Women, indie film production house A24 continues their trend in recent years of delivering some really great films. Penned and directed by Mike Mills, Women is a coming of age story set in Santa Barbara, California towards the end of the 1970s. Dorothea (Annette Benning) is a hippie mom trying to […]

TL;DR: Let’s be really clear – more than anything else, Rogue One is a PG-13 sci-fi war movie. Sure, it’s not Saving Private Ryan level, but if you were to cut out some of Ryan’s flying limbs, guts, and blood – it’s not entirely that far off. It’s definitely still in the Star Wars Universe – […]

Much as reviewers and show runners are claiming to be in the beginnings of a television Renaissance age, it’s about time for films to circle back to being wonderful pieces of storytelling on the big screen. After the surprise success (and awesomeness) of 10 Cloverfield Lane, we may be returning into the realm of strong science fiction […]

by NEW CO’ER Kim F (a professional bibliophile and layabout who who is constantly flabbergasted to find herself living in LA along with six houseplants and one very disgruntled cat.) Full disclosure, this is the first time I have ever done…

Let me start by saying I’m really glad Dominic Cooper didn’t get the role of Freddie Mercury in the upcoming highly anticipated biopic, because after watching all four hours of Fleming, I can’t see him portraying the Man Who Would…