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That wasn't helped by grand fantasies from prospective players about what the title was going to be, fascilitated by the massive promise of a near infinite universe full of diverse planets. That is an impossible place to review a game from, as a lot of this would be talking about what the game isn't, which isn't[...]

[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 wanted[...]

[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[...]

Back in 2015, I gave Abzu Game of the Show at E3. That feels like eons ago, but at the time, what grabbed me was how the game opened up and allowed me to

[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: Jason[...]

[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 shambler[...]

Hugh Sheridan writes for Bleeding Cool... The pilot for the new Riverdale TV series premiered in Ballroom 20 at SDCC last night. I guess the potential 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[...]

[rwp-review-recap id="0"] Let's get this right out of the way, the new Ghostbusters film has some fine leads From the four ghostbusters themselves: Melissa McCarthy, Kristen Wiig, Kate McKinnon, and Leslie Jones to the 2016 version of the receptionist, this time played by Chris Hemsworth – they are all solid ensemble players McKinnon has a solid career[...]

[rwp-review-recap id="0"] There are a number of genres where the typical story arc has been done so many times, there's almost no surprises along the way Beyond the possible amount of interest the film's protagonist might have, most of the surrounding characters may as well be interchangeable from any of dozens of similar films In the[...]

[rwp-review-recap id="0"] The first Purge film with it's home-invasion theme was novel in it's being an ultra-violent commentary on social and economic classes and how little it would seem to take normal suburbia and turn it into a murder zone For those that might not have seen the earlier films, the idea is that every year[...]

[rwp-review-recap id="0"] So, let's get the Elephant in the room out of the way to begin with – in the 21st century, nearly any film about Tarzan (and European colonialism in general) is going to be a bit rife with racial storylines that is going be awkward to explain The Legend of Tarzan does it's best[...]

[rwp-review-recap id="0"] Shark movies is another flavor of horror genre that I'm typically a very easy lay for The Shallows is a very slick production and better quality than we've gotten over the last many years from Syfy's collection of Sharknado films Most often shark films are campy fun, but every so often someone takes a[...]

[rwp-review-recap id="0"]   Twenty years ago writer Dean Devlin and director Rolan Emmerich ushered in the modern era disaster blockbuster with a film that's never been called by its given name – it's always been ID4 rather than Independence Day It set the set the bar for everything from the Transformers franchise to the modern summer comic[...]

[rwp-review-recap id="0"] By this point most people who are at least of college age have committed some amount of hours, days, or weeks playing Blizzard's World of Warcraft Many of us have played it for so long, we can all but close our eyes and know the paths through Azeroth's forrests, we know which shops are[...]