I was fully expecting to hate Patrick Hughes’ War Machine while watching it. Another Netflix piece of content that essentially amalgamates known films into one another and tries to pass it off as an “original film”? What could go wrong? For the first twenty minutes or so, a compact montage that distills the backstory of Staff Sergeant 81 (Alan Ritchson) as
Read MoreI won’t win many friends with this review, but I genuinely hated almost every second of Predator: Badlands. This is Dan Trachtenberg’s third go-around in the Predator franchise, after revitalizing the series with the (very good) Prey in 2022 and the (nifty, but forgettable) Predator: Killer of Killers earlier this year. With Badlands (not to be confused with the Terrence Malick film
Read MoreDan Trachtenberg’s Prey movie has finally been released, giving the Predator franchise much-needed revitalization. With a more than enthusiastic response to the Predator prequel film (you can read my review here) and Hulu declaring it the greatest premiere in the history of the service, news about a potential Prey sequel is heavily anticipated. But, before such news inevitably drops, I think
Read MoreI spent last week watching most of the previous Predators movies in preparation for Prey’s release. Dan Trachtenberg’s big swing at revitalizing the franchise brings the story back to the 1700s. Focusing on Naru (Amber Midthunder), a young Native American woman trying to prove her worth as a hunter, Prey elevates the franchise into what it should’ve been all along. The
Read MorePrey, the fifth film in the Predator franchise, is finally hitting Hulu this weekend. Sans Shane Black’s The Predator, I’ve been throwing myself into the previous films in the franchise. I’ve been soaking up all the solo Predator films so I can appreciate Prey as much as possible. Sadly, I haven’t really loved them. Predator was kind of bland; the characters
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