PREDATOR: BADLANDS Reviewed by GREG KINGDirector: Dan TrachtenbergStars: Dimitrius Schuster-Koulomatangi, Elle Fanning, Michael Homik, Reuben de Jong, Cameron Brown, Rohinal Nayaran.The Predator saga began in 1987 with the sci-fi action thriller that pitted Arnold Schwarzenegger and a special forces team against the Youtja, a technologically advanced extraterrestrial creature in the jungles of Central …
BUGONIA
BUGONIA Reviewed by GREG KINGDirector: Yorgos LanthimosStars: Emma Stone, Jesse Plemons, Aidan Delbis, Alicia Silverstone, Stavros Halkias.More inventive bravura weirdness from Greek auteur Yorgos Lanthimos (Poor Things, etc). The black sci-fi/kidnap comedy thriller Bugonia is loosely based on the little seen 2003 Korean film Save The Green Planet from Jang Joon-hwan, but co-screenwriter Will Tracy (The …
PRIMITIVE WAR
PRIMITIVE WAR Reviewed by GREG KINGDirector: Luke SparkeStars: Ryan Kwanten, Tricia Helfer, Jeremy Piven, Nick Wechsler, Anthony Ingruber, Carlos Sanson, Aaron Glenane, Albert Mwangi, Adolphus Waylee, Ana Thu Nguyen, Jeremy Lindsay Taylor, Marcus Johnson.Imagine what the result would have been if Oliver Stone injected dinosaurs into his Oscar winning Vietnam war drama Platoon. That’s largely what you …
SUPERMAN
SUPERMAN Reviewed by GREG KINGDirector: James GunnStars: David Corenswet, Nicholas Hoult, Rachel Brosnahan, Skyler Gisondo, Anthony Carrigan, Nathan Fillion, Edi Gathegi, Isabela Merced, Sara Sampaio, Zhatko Buric, Maria Gabriela de Faria, Frank Grillo, John Cena, Pruitt Taylor Vince, Neva Howell, Alan Tudyk, Wendell Pierce, Bradley Cooper, Milly Alcock. Do we really need another superhero …
THUNDERBOLTS*
THUNDERBOLTS* Reviewed by GREG KINGDirector: Jake ShreierStars: Florence Pugh, David Harbour, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Sebastian Stan, Wyatt Russell, Lewis Pullman, Olga Kurylenko, Hannah John-Kamen, Geraldine Viswanathan, Wendell Pierce, Chris Bauer, Gabrielle Byndloss.Like many I have become jaded with the surfeit of comic book movie adaptations and was not particularly looking forward to Thunderbolts*, …
MICKEY 17
MICKEY 17 Reviewed by GREG KINGDirector: Bong Joon-HoStars: Robert Pattinson, Mark Ruffalo, Toni Collette, Steven Yeun, Naomi Ackie, Anamaria Vartolomei, Daniel Henshall, Thomas Turgoose, Cameron Britton, Patsy Ferran, Steve Park, Holliday Grainger.Korean filmmaker Bong Joon-Ho's first feature since his 2020 Oscar winning Parasite is this blackly comic sci-fi film adapted from the 2022 novel by Edward …
