To be fair, Predator: Badlands puts all this upfront with a title card that tells us the Yautja “are prey to none and friend to none”, which sounds impressive and leads us to a fight between fraternal ...

ONCE I WAS TRYING TO EXPLAIN my theory of a “perfect” movie and how it differed from “the best” movies. The Godfather, Citizen Kane, There Will Be Blood: These are all movies that are in discussion ...

There's this funny fad in Hollywood of turning iconic villains into sympathetic — or even heroic — figures. "Wicked" turned the evil Wicked Witch of the West of "The Wizard of Oz" into a misunderstood ...

If you don’t know it already Google “original Predator design” and take a gander at the results. You’re looking for the thing that looks like a cross between a giant cockroach and a cheap lawn ...

I can’t speak for all professional film critics, but personally, I live by a set of rules. You never make up your mind about a movie before you see it. You never walk out of a movie, no matter how bad ...

Dan Trachtenberg finds fresh excitement in the popular (if often-disappointing) ’80s franchise, pairing Elle Fanning's 'Alien'-style synth with a runt Predator with everything to prove. In “Predator: ...

The makers of “Predator: Badlands” certainly had themselves a fine time dreaming up freakish sources of danger on a faraway planet. Behold the mouthy, snaking tree tentacles. The dinosaur-ish monster ...

Whatever happened to subtext? With regard to the Predator franchise, it seems weird to bring this up so late in the day, after six movies and two Alien tie-ins. But the question that bubbles up right ...

Director Dan Trachtenberg takes his third crack at Yautja lore with Predator: Badlands, and this time the protagonist is the galaxy’s most notorious trophy hunter himself. It’s a pretty wild shift in ...