Frankenstein (2025)

Frankenstein (2025)

[7] Director Guillermo del Toro (The Shape of Water, Pan's Labyrinth) puts his cinematic stamp on Mary Shelley's formative sci-fi novel, casting Oscar Isaac (Dune: Part One, Annihilation) as the obsessed Victor Frankenstein who brings an assembly of dead body…
Predator: Badlands (2025)

Predator: Badlands (2025)

[7] Director Dan Trachtenberg (10 Cloverfield Lane, Prey) leads the Predator franchise in a bold new, character-driven direction with Predator: Badlands. Dimitrius Schuster-Koloamatangi stars (under digital makeup) as Dek, the film's title hunter, a runt whose ruthless father tries to…
Bugonia (2025)

Bugonia (2025)

[6] Two cousins (Jesse Plemons and Aidan Delbis) kidnap a famous pharmaceutical CEO (Emma Stone) because they believe she is an alien intent on harming humankind. Director Yorgos Lanthimos (Dogtooth, The Favourite) makes the deranged cousins sympathetic and the CEO…
A Quiet Place Part II (2020)

A Quiet Place Part II (2020)

[6] Director/co-writer/actor John Krasinski serves up another helping of his intimate and suspenseful alien apocalypse story. The sequel begins with a flashback sequence of the day the aliens came to earth and began decimating the world's population. Krasinski appears in…
F1: The Movie (2025)

F1: The Movie (2025)

[8] Brad Pitt stars as a Formula One racecar driver who comes out of retirement to boost the lackluster performance of an old friend's racing team before its owners sell it off. There's immediate friction between Pitt and the team's…
Venom: The Last Dance (2024)

Venom: The Last Dance (2024)

[5] The Venom trilogy stumbles in its finale, but it has some nice moments. Tom Hardy returns as journalist Eddie Brock, exiled to Mexico after events of the previous movie and still hosting Venom, a shapeshifting alien symbiote, in his…
Top Gun: Maverick (2022)

Top Gun: Maverick (2022)

[8] Tom Cruise returns, 36 years later, to the role that made him a star. Top Gun: Maverick bests the original film as drama and entertainment, putting characters with universal appeal in thrilling, high stakes situations. The film opens with…
Venom: Let There Be Carnage (2021)

Venom: Let There Be Carnage (2021)

[7] In this age of superhero fatigue, I was surprised to enjoy the first Venom movie so much. Color me equally surprised that they could pull off an entertaining sequel with Venom: Let There Be Carnage. Tom Hardy returns as…
The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It (2021)

The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It (2021)

[4] Despite the great casting of Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga, the third Conjuring movie continues the franchise's penchant for mediocrity. The Devil Made Me Do It opens with Wilson and Farmiga, as real life paranormal investigators Ed and Lorrain…
Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes (2024)

Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes (2024)

[5] After wrapping up a terrific trilogy of Planet of the Apes films (2011-2017), Fox and Disney saw fit to give us another film that takes place generations later. I went into this latest film with great skepticism, and at…