The Yautja — the menacing species of hunters from the “Predator” movie series — aren’t exactly the most compelling aliens around. They hunt. They turn intermittently invisible. They kill. They don’t ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Many film franchises have stood the test of time, and one of them is Predator, which began in the late 1980s. The first movie in the franchise, starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, proved to be a massive ...

There are many reasons to look back on Alien: Covenant as a disappointment. The abandonment of the Space Jockey mystery from the original film; the obligatory return to xenomorph formula by a ...

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. With Prey and Predator: ...

Dan Trachtenberg’s follow-up to 'Prey' co-stars Dimitrius Schuster-Koloamatangi as an outcast member of the extraterrestrial titular species. By Richard Lawson In the new film Predator: Badlands, a ...

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: ...