The End of Oak Street

One day in 1982, the Platts discover that their whole neighborhood has been transported to a time and place millions of years away. There were some excited critics who called…

The Boroughs

It comes as no surprise to learn that the Duffer brothers executive-produced this series, considering how much it looked like Stranger Things with more than a splash of Cocoon (1985).…

The Last House

On a rainy day in Seattle, a family learns that they’re trapped inside their house, with doors and windows seemingly sealed shut; the same is true for their neighbors, and…

Minions & Monsters

In the early days of Hollywood, a couple of unusually clumsy minions got the film industry off to a rousing start – but also ended up battling a deceitful monster.…

Kraken

For personal reasons, Johanne (Sara Khorami), a marine biologist, is nervous about going back to Vangsnes, a small community by a fjord… but there’s something in the water that she…

Predator: Badlands

Dan Trachtenberg keeps developing the Predator franchise, this time with a sci-fi adventure from the perspective of the monsters (losing some of their edge in the process), known here as…

Stranger Things 

It became a global pop-culture phenomenon, this sci-fi show about a small town in Indiana where a group of kids learned about the existence of a portal to a dimension…

Troll 2

A new troll awakens from its slumber in Norway; heading for Trondheim and the Nidaros Cathedral, it’s looking for revenge, but faces resistance from another mighty but friendlier troll. We’ve…

Frankenstein: 200 Years Later, It’s Alive

Jacob Elordi. Photo: Netflix The ”Dark Universe” project that Universal started crashed and burned with the release of The Mummy (2017), a critically maligned box-office flop. However, it’s nice to…

Jurassic World: Rebirth

A former military operative (Scarlett Johansson) and a paleontologist (Jonathan Bailey) are hired for a mission to retrieve blood samples from three types of dinosaurs, which will be used for…