Super 8: Monster Mash

Kyle Chandler, Joel Courtney, Elle Fanning and Ron Eldard. Photo: Paramount Director J.J. Abrams's first major collaboration with Steven Spielberg prompted David Edelstein of New York Magazine to spell it…

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The 1980s TV hit was updated for a post-9/11 audience, introducing elements of social criticism in its portrayal of how the arrival of huge spaceships affected people in the world's…

X-Men: First Class

This attempt to jump-start the franchise by taking it in a new direction tells the story of how the young Professor X and Magneto (James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender) learned how…

Resident Evil: Extinction

Alice (Milla Jovovich) joins a group of other survivors that are trekking through the Mojave Desert; zombies are still waiting at every turn. The third chapter of this franchise is…

X-Men Origins: Wolverine 

In the 1840s, a young boy discovers that he has special powers; 160 years later, he's a veteran of every American conflict since the Civil War, but is about to…

Westworld 

Some time in the future, two tourists (Richard Benjamin, James Brolin) go to Westworld, a theme park built like a city in the Old West where the gunslingers are played…

Predators 

A group of killers, including a black ops soldier (Adrien Brody) who assumes leadership, are dropped into a jungle where they seem to be hunted by predatory aliens. Sounds like…

Terminator Salvation 

In 2018, John Connor (Christian Bale) thinks he has found a way to defeat the deadly machines, but he also needs to track down a teenager (Anton Yelchin) who will…

Blade Runner: In Search of Emotions

Photo: Warner When I first saw this classic science fiction flick, I was thoroughly unimpressed. It looked great, but the story and action were so forgettable that I refused to…