The Legend of Tarzan opened this weekend to very mixed reviews. I’m sure I’ll catch it sometime, but really, what’s the point of revisiting Tarzan yet again? This is the weekend to be swinging free in the real world, with American Independence Day, Canada Day, and many a Pride Festival and EDM event all happening. You’ve also got Cons in Washington, DC (Escape Velocity), Miami (Supercon), Baltimore (Counterpoint), and Portland (Westercon).

But we must have a Summer Weekend Review, and so, hipsters, flipsters, and finger-poppin’ daddies, lend a lobe and dig this gig from 1959.

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This Weekend Review takes us back in time a couple years to 2014, when Heinlein’s most notorious time-travel tale made it to the big screen.

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With The Conjuring 2 out this weekend, we thought we’d finally catch up to the original movie. It proved hugely successful with the horror-movie crowd, and convinced a few people that haunted homes are real, and may be lurking in your neighborhood.

If you missed it the first time around, should you see it now? Or next October?

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Also known as Warcraft: The Beginning, this film based on Blizzard’s phenomenally popular MMORPG which used to be an RTS series is extremely pretty but suffers from an incoherent plot and an uncontrolled urge to be spectacular at the expense of just about everything else.

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Following the past events of X-Men: Days of Future Past, it’s now the 1980s. Things seem to have been reasonably quiet since Magneto’s attack on the President, but that’s all about to change when the world’s first mutant wakes up.

I’ve tried to be vague, but there may be some spoilers within.

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“What is that damned zombie doing in my E-Z-boy?”

Neither as consistently funny as Zombieland nor as clever as Shaun of the Dead, this 2006 Canadian zom-com nevertheless should appeal to fans of the genre—or those tired of The Walking Dead‘s grimly serious take on the subject matter.

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In the space between Batman v Superman guest-starring Wonder Woman and Captain America: Civil War guest-starring the entire MCU, Alex has reviewed some classic anime. Today we’re looking back at the most famous of early-1970s Czech surreal horror/coming-of-age/fantasy films, 1970’s Valerie a týden divu.

Is it worth seeing what all the film school cognoscenti fuss is about?

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