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Title: Rogue One: A Star Wars Story Director: Gareth Edwards Summary: The Rebellion makes a risky move to steal the plans for the Death Star, setting up the epic saga to follow. The review will be spoiler free There is a lot riding on Rogue One: A Star Wars Story; while Star Wars: The Force Awakens was there to[...]

La La Land is well shot and well acted but a musical depends on the voices of its leads and Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling are not strong singers. Title: La

TL;DR: In Collateral Beauty, Will Smith as Howard Inlet is a father whose daughter has passed away and has retreated in on himself - shutting out his

[rwp-review-recap id="0"] Not everyone is into political dramas, especially ones that have to do with the intricacies of policymaking and back-hallway deal making Personally, I'm a fan of well made and fast paced political dramas, so this one, directed by Shakespeare in Love's John Madden (no, not the football guy), and written by first timer Jonathan Perera (seriously,[...]

Manchester by the Sea is pretentious but fantastic performances and a realistic depiction of what grief really looks like elevates this above the normal

[rwp-review-recap id="0"] Camera Store is an interesting piece of work from writer/director Scott Marshall Smith Taking place entirely over the course of Christmas eve, 1994 Staring John Larroquette and John Rhys-Davies as Pinky and Ray, two aged employees of a small independent camera store in a small and unremarkable suburban mall. The film itself is primarily a character study as[...]

While Syfy's latest series, Incorporated, isn't a reboot of any previous properties, but with the number of tropes it draws from it feels like it might as well be. Take a healthy dose of 1997's Gattica, and a mix of walled-garden variants (you know the ones, where a small community of have-everythings live segregated away from the rest of the have-nothing population), some Demolition Man, and a bit of Judge Dredd for good measure, and you've basically got the setup for Incorporated.

For fans of History Channel's scripted drama Vikings, it has been six full months of waiting since we went into the midseason hiatus with the episode, The

The Edge of Seventeen is the rare coming of age comedy that immediately took me in with its smart writing and relatable characters. Title: The Edge of

Hacksaw Ridge might tell an interesting story but director Mel Gibson fumbles the execution so poorly it loses all meaning. Title: Hacksaw Ridge Director:

Arrival is the smart science fiction movie that leaves you stunned and wondering if the sleight of hand lives up to the punchline. TItle: Arrival

At the end of last week's episode we had Jesus and Carl hidden in the back of a cargo truck on the way to find Negan's lair. Great, that's exciting, that means we can get down to business of dishing out some payback. We get to tonight's episode, 'Swear', and rather than picking up where we left off, we're in the middle of nowhere in an RV with.... Tara (Alanna Masterson) and Heath (Corey Hawkins)?

Title: Loving Director: Jeff Nichols Summary: Richard and Mildred Loving, an interracial couple, are sentenced to prison in Virginia in 1958 for getting married. As I mentioned in my The Eagle Huntress review, the state of mind you're in can greatly affect how you react to a movie I saw The Eagle Huntress and Loving the same day[...]

[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 the center[...]

By Joe Glass, Bleeding Cool's Senior Mutant Correspondent, The first (of this run, anyway. Will it be the only?) annual of Marvel's All New X-Men packs

The Eagle Huntress is a beautiful documentary that shows us that girls can do anything they set their minds to. Title: The Eagle Huntress Director: Otto

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).

Rating: 3.5 Stars The Review: 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[...]

[rwp-review-recap id="0"] Mark Millar, Greg Capullo, Jonathan Glapion, and FCO Plascencia's second issue of Reborn is a stark departure from the rocket of a first issue. I was fond of the opening issue (would've rated it 4 out of 5, for various reasons, but mostly emotions for the protagonist) but I found a few parts of this one[...]

[rwp-review-recap id="0"] Southern Cross #9 is the third part of Becky Cloonan and Andy Belanger's Sci-Fi-pulp/noir themed second act, and it's a bit of a banger! Following on from the trippy psycho-horror of the first volume, the second arc focuses on a grizzled, old detective, dragged back in to investigation after things go sour in the[...]

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.

[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 held[...]

Titanfall was an excellent game. It was hurt by a lack of content both without a single player campaign and in-depth multiplayer progression, but the

Battlefield is a franchise that has always impressed me immensely. It's focus on huge scale online matches and utterly breathtaking graphical capabilities

[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 unicorns[...]

Gears of War is a special series. Perhaps that sounds hyperbolic, as some might make fun of it for being a meatheaded Michael Bay-like blockbuster, with

[rwp-review-recap id="0"] While we've never been sold on Ben Affleck's performance as Batman, his latest performance as Christian Wolff in The Accountant is a wonderful case of casting One doesn't typically think of pen-pushing accountants as being the most effective (or exciting) of roles for a top crime world agent, but the script by Bill Dubuque under[...]

[rwp-review-recap id="0"] At this point Canadian director Denis Villeneuve seems to be just showing off Nearly every one of his feature films have garnered some level of award season consideration, including three academy award nominations on his last round out with Sicario Now with his latest film, Arrival, it feels that the bar is already suitably high[...]

[rwp-review-recap id="0"] The irony of the use of the title The Birth of a Nation is not lost on viewers today: the 1915 film (so just over a century ago) with the same title had been a tale of the founding of the Ku Klux Klan as a heroic force to help save the perceived oppressed[...]