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Smart Reboot As a knife-driven horror movie, Child’s Play isn’t out to reinvent the genre. People die in gratuitous ways, usually after the killer lingers in shadows for a …

Phoenix Falling Partway through the arduous Dark Phoenix, a TV newscast mentions the possibility for mutant internment camps, suggesting the X-Men’s future unless they stop the conflicted Jean Gray. …

Special Order 937 Kennedy’s grand plan for space eventually fizzled. NASA’s dwindling budget founded the shuttle program and then floundered. Private investors took over, then corporations saw profitable opportunities. …

Asking Who We Are – Without Answers Marc Streitenfeld composes a masterful theme for Prometheus. Violins rise, evoking a feeling of wonderment, discovery, and emotional excitement. There’s none of …

Rising to Opportunistic Power Vice’s conclusions come in the first five minutes. Low wages lead to overworked, tired people who don’t spend time paying attention to things that matter …

Give and Take The Hate U Give’s most pressing scene happens in a private school soon after a young black man is shot and killed by a white cop. …

An Alien Whoopi Goldberg Three Predator films dealt with human warriors, each of a different type. The first a post-Vietnam memento, the second police in Los Angeles’ gang lands, …

Gooey Monster Eats Things: The Movie After Eddie Brock (Tom Hardy) is taken over by an alien symbiote, there’s soon a firefight against a number of soldiers. In the …

All Out of Love If your ethics are so distorted they end up as a plot point for the likes of Deadpool 2, it’s time to reconsider. In this …

Is He Batman Yet? The wheels start coming off the bus in Gotham’s erratic fourth season. Bruce Wayne has yet to take up the mantle of the Bat despite …

Tourist Trap Empathy is a flaw in Predators. Anyone who dares to show compassion is certain to die on this alien planet, populated by a race of creatures determined …

B.O. and BBQ Predator 2 takes place in the future – 1997. It’s a time of unrelenting gang wars, with massive Hollywood shoot-outs on the streets between cops and …