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[rwp-review id="0"] Often when the topic of North Korea is the focus of a documentary, it focuses mainly on the journey out Dramatic, harrowing escapes are recounted along with the highlighted struggles of a population held hostage Though this is the story of a woman successfully escaping from North Korea, Mrs B., A North Korean Woman[...]

[rwp-review-recap id="0"] Dark Days: The Casting is the second comic prelude to DC's enlarging event, Metal And while I am sure there are still surprises yet to come, Dark Days: The Casting may in fact be an incredibly apt name – because we can finally get a real sense of the shape of how this event[...]

We got together with Think Geek to bring you several items for one specific area of the home. This month we're reviewing a collection of lights But not just any lights: gaming lights! These are created specifically to illuminate your home and show off your gamer nature But how well do these work, is the nostalgia[...]

[rwp-review-recap id="0"] With each successive historically-inspired television series that comes along, it seems that there's a competition to get further and further away from anything approaching reality Looking back now on 1998's Elizabeth and Showtime's The Tudors, the furor about historical accuracy in anything from costuming to what people actually did around those seems almost quaint[...]

[rwp-review-recap id="0"] The Wicked + The Divine #29 marks the series return and start of what series creators Kieron Gillen, Jamie McKelvie, and Matthew Wilson refer to as Imperial Phase II Gillen has repeated used the metaphor of a double album, with this second part being that second album that vastly accelerates the story. Cover by Jamie[...]

[rwp-review-recap id="0"] X-Men Gold #7 is the comic series' first Secret Empire tie-in Thankfully, it avoids all the troubling and perhaps negative aspects of the event it's tied to by locking itself in the New York/Manhattan location that is of course in the event trapped in the Darkforce Dimension. As a result, they are able to tell[...]

Only Tsui Hark and Stephen Chow would combine slapstick with massive CGI mayhem to turn Journey to the West 2 into something that’s anything but generic.

[rwp-review-recap id="0"] With more than a decade since Spider-Man last had a great solo film, it almost felt like those halcyon years of Sam Raimi's first two installment might have been unicorns But now it seems that director Jon Watts has led another one out of the forest and the drought is finally over with Spider-Man:[...]

[rwp-review-recap id="0"] A Ghost Story approaches the common question of "what happens after we die?" and presents an interesting look through the eyes of someone standing under a sheet. Director: David Lowery Summary: In this singular exploration of legacy, love, loss, and the enormity of existence, a recently deceased, white-sheeted ghost returns to his suburban home to try[...]

[rwp-review-recap id="0"] Batman #26 continues the big arc, The War of Jokes and Riddles, as Batman continues to recount the tale of a massive war between the Joker and the Riddler in his second year as the Dark Knight to Catwoman The issue continues to set up the war to come, and through excellent use of[...]

And through it all, the mist continues to grow… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YKe3znDCEMYVideo can't be loaded because JavaScript is disabled: The Mist: 'Out There' | Official Trailer (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YKe3znDCEMY) After a solid premiere last week (reviewed here), how did The Mist fair with its second episode, Withdrawal? Umm…let me put it this way: not well[...]

[rwp-review-recap id="0"] Sequels coming out of Hollywood are a terribly mixed bag, with most falling far short of their original installment Far more rare than a well-made sequel is a well-made third entry into a series (Rise of the Machines, Alien 3, Superman 3, Iron Man 3, just to name a few) 20th Century Fox has[...]

I got their t-shirts for June Gamer selection in the mail, tried them on, and now I'm ready to review them. The first one out of the box was the PlayStation t-shirt This is as simplistic and cool as you can get You got all four colored buttons that everyone has been familiar with for over[...]

[rwp-review-recap id="0"] Spider-Man: Homecoming embraces the mentality of its lead character to put one of the best adaptations of the character on screen. Director: Jon Watts Summary: Following the events of Captain America: Civil War (2016), Peter Parker attempts to balance his life in high school with his career as the web-slinging superhero Spider-Man. This Spider-Man: Homecoming Review will[...]

[rwp-review-recap id="0"] Punisher #13 by Becky Cloonan, Kris Anka and Matt Wilson is a self-contained tale that contains a surprising amount of heart and also relatively bloodless for a Punisher story Which for me is a good thing. Let me be straight-up here: I hate the Punisher The whole concept of the character bugs me That's not[...]