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Review of American Made, starring Tom Cruise
He always gives a full-court-push, regardless of the project he's in at the time, be it Rock of Ages, Edge of Tomorrow, or the Mummy movie that we'd all sooner forget ever happened In the end, he always gives it his all, and that's true again here in American Made. Directed by spy and caper film regular[...]
Disney Sets Release Dates For Aladdin, Christopher Robin, And Artemis Fowl
Hayley Atwell also stars. It's nice to see Disney finally start to take advantage of the cinematic wasteland that traditionally exists at the box office during August as we could use some good movies to come out at that time period We should expect casting for Robin to finish soon and for filming to begin within[...]
The Dark Tower Review: From A Non-Book Reader's Perspective
The impression I had walking out of the movie was that I would love to watch more and to see more of the universe, but that's the feeling I'd expect from a new series on Starz or Netflix Not something that will now take a few years to get another installment By then, any passing[...]
Dunkirk Review: A Masterpiece In Simple Elegance
[rwp-review-recap id="0"] World War II movies are pretty standard fare, as there's been more than 70 years to crank them out and to fine tune their various approaches However when one comes along that stands out, it doesn't kind of stand out, it's simply not in the same league as the other ones that have so[...]
Wish Upon Review: A Horror Film For Young Adults
As one viewer commented in our screening, "this might have been compelling had it been the first horror movie I'd ever seen." And perhaps that's one way to consider this film – if you have a 13-15 year old and they haven't watched much horror, then this might be a great viewing for them However[...]
'Jane' Review From The NYAFF: A Vibrant Character Barely Used
What actually occurs is a lot more complex than that. The style of this movie is incredibly fragmented — a stylistic choice paired with a cyclical plot that just misses the mark So-hyun, played by Lee Min-ji, can't seem to escape her fate no matter where she moves, as events repeat over and over in a[...]
War For The Planet Of The Apes Review: One Of The Summer's Best
The early part of the year has had no lack of stellar movies, with Logan, Wonder Woman, and Get Out, and this is definitely near the top of that list. Check out War for the Planet of the Apes in theaters July 14th. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JDcAlo8i2y8Video can't be loaded because JavaScript is disabled: War for the Planet of the Apes |[...]
Despicable Me 3 Review: More For Grownups Than For The Kids
[rwp-review-recap id="0"] After three movies, one would have hoped that studio Illumination would have refined their stories to take their sometimes super-agent, sometimes super-villain and his merry band of banana-loving minions and give them something insightful to do Failing that they might expand on their repertoire of jokes Unfortunate they really haven't come up with anything[...]
Look! It Moves! At The NYAFF's Opening Night – Reviewing Bad Genius
Bad Genius is the opening movie for this year's New York Asian Film Festival It's a high school heist thriller from Thailand that's as slick as anything from Hollywood. As I write, the tickets are already sold out, the movie having come across the ocean with a lot of buzz preceding it It was a hit[...]
Transformers The Last Knight Review: A Popcorn Movie If Ever There Was One
However the dentist never had baby Dinobots to play with, so that's at least one thing that's more fun with the film than there it to get a tooth drilled. Bonus round: for history buffs, here's a great topic for a debate – which movie portrays their respective time periods more inaccurately: Transformers or King Arthur:[...]
Look! It Moves! – The Bad Batch Is Tasty But Undercooked Meat
[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 a[...]
The Mummy Review: A Desiccated Corpse Held Together By Flimsy Bandages
The Mummy is Universal's go at kicking off their Dark Universe series of films, meant to usher back in a cross-pollinated world of Phantom of the Opera, Wolfman, Dracula, the various Frankensteins, and of course The Mummy. The Mummy works out about as well as The Incredible Hulk movie Remember the one that came just before[...]
17 Years Into The Quest, Monty Python's Terry Gilliam Has Wrapped Production On Don Quixote
Or actually, one man who killed Don Quixote. Yes, after nearly twenty years of setbacks and hardships, Terry Gilliam's The Man Who Killed Don Quixote wrapped production Sunday morning, with Gilliam taking to Facebook to make the announcement: Few productions have ever faced the mountain of problems that Gilliam's project has, with a laundry list of disasters[...]
Wonder Woman 2 To Bring Wonder Woman To America, Says Director
Yea, we still have to get through the upcoming November 17th release of the Justice League movie first, but the Amazon will almost certainly be back with Wonder Woman 2. It was back in April when director Patty Jenkins was giving an interview with Entertainment Weekly and she was already thinking about the storyline for a[...]
Video: Gal Gadot And Chris Pine Crashing Our Wonder Woman Screening
Here's what Ray had to say: Unless you've listed your place of residence as (a) coma; (b) under a rock; or (c) Narnia for over the past year, it's pretty safe to say you at least have some idea that there's a Wonder Woman movie coming-out this year (and actually in theatres by the time you[...]