Predator: Badlands

Dek (Dimitrius Schuster-Koloamatangi) is a runt in the Yautja tribe.  Desperate to gain his father’s approval, he sets out to the planet Genna to hunt and kill the Kalisk and bring back its head as a war trophy.  Dan Trachtenberg returns to the world of Predator with Predator: Badlands, a standalone follow-up to his widely acclaimed historical entry, Prey (2022), for Twentieth Century Studios.  After audience…

Hold Your Breath

Oklahoma, 1933.  With her husband out east building bridges, Margaret Bellum (Sarah Paulson) is left behind at the homestead, looking after their two young children, Rose (Amiah Miller) and Ollie (Alona Jane Robbins).  When the dust storms do not force the community inside, they must all be alert as fever is creeping its way through,…

Alien: Romulus

Tyler (Archie Renaux) has a plan to hijack a hauling ship, Corbelan, to escape the mining colony Jackson’s Star after the Weyland-Yutani corporation extends their contracts.  A key part of this plan involves Rain (Cailee Spaeny), his ex-girlfriend, or more specifically, Andy (David Jonsson), Rain’s brother who is a reprogrammed synthetic human that would be…

Kinds of Kindness

Robert (Jesse Plemons) eagerly follows every order from his boss, Raymond (Willem Dafoe), until Raymond asks Robert to crash his car into a man referred to only as R.M.F. (Yorgos Stefanakos), killing him.  Daniel’s (also Jesse Plemons) wife, Liz (Emma Stone) has been missing and presumed dead on a research trip to a remote island. …

Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes

Generations after Caesar liberated his clan in the War of the Planet of the Apes, the human population has dwindled to the point of near extinction and the apes live in peace.  Noa (Owen Teague), Soona (Lydia Peckham), and Anaya (Travis Jeffery) spend their day climbing the trees in search of eagle eggs that they…

The First Omen

Rome was abuzz with civil rights protests in 1971 when Margaret (Nell Tiger Free) arrived to take her vows and devote her life to God and the works of the Vizzardeli Orphanage.  While taking the tour of the grounds with the Abbess, Sister Silvia (Sônia Braga), Margaret meets Carlita (Nicole Sorace), a young ward of…

No One Will Save You

Brynn (Kaitlyn Dever) keeps to herself in her own corner of town.  She is mostly content working as a seamstress, constructing a model town, cooking and dancing by herself, but there is still a feeling of loneliness over her. She is like a ghost in her family home after her mother passed away and the…

The Creator

In the near future, humanity has a fraught relationship with AI; the eastern part of the world has embraced the technology while the west seeks to destroy it after AI launched an attack on Los Angeles.  Joshua (John David Washington), a military operative, is sent deep undercover to New Asia to search for Nirmata, an…

A Haunting in Venice

Hercule Poirot (Kenneth Branagh) is enjoying his retirement in Venice when he is visited by old friend and mystery novelist, Ariadne Oliver (Tina Fey).  Against his better judgment, he accompanies her to a children’s Halloween party that evening hosted by Rowena Drake (Kelly Reilly).  The real excitement of the evening, however, will happen after the…