Dr. Henry Loomis, the paleontologist performed by Jonathan Bailey in Jurassic World Rebirth, at one level laments the general public’s diminished curiosity in seeing the identical previous prehistoric creatures. That prompted the underside line-driven people at InGen, the billion-dollar biotech company that makes a speciality of resurrecting extinct animals, to…
Hungarian auteur Bence Fliegauf is about as far from the mainstream as you can get, although he has tried his hand at various Hollywood genres — including the 2010 English-language sci-fi flick Womb, which starred Eva Green and Lesley Manville. But his eclectic range of movies are often dark and…
Actress Ana Geislerova may be something of a household name in the Czech Republic, where she broke out in the mid-’90s and then scooped up lots of awards in the early aughts with films like Innocence and Something Like Happiness. But beyond co-starring with Cillian Murphy and Jamie Dornan in…
In a profession spanning 37 years and over 50 options, there have been few cases when Aamir Khan has been outshined in a movie. His appearing prowess, enduring stardom and often impeccable inventive instincts have held him in good stead. However in Sitaare Zameen Par (Stars on Earth), the actor-producer turns into a second result…
From his breakout as writer-director, Slither, to Guardians of the Galaxy, James Gunn has made it his mission to lighten the oppressive darkness of so much contemporary sci-fi with irreverent humor and the exhilaration of an unabashed genre geek. For his first entry as new co-chair — alongside producer Peter…
The campy sense of mischief that made Gerard Johnstone’s 2023 hit M3GAN so gratifying asserts itself intermittently in M3GAN 2.0, a logical title for a follow-up to the thriller a couple of murderous robotic. However the humor is pressured to compete with severely overcomplicated plotting in a sequel that entangles…
An alternate historical past with totally different world leaders can be nice escapism in the mean time. Heads of State isn’t that, regardless of a here-and-there subtext that seems to be extra pointedly political than you see coming. The movie, from No one director Ilya Naishuller, is a typical action-comedy…
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