When the Conner family returns to ABC’s primetime lineup, it’ll be minus the family’s matriach. ABC’s The Conners, the new spinoff of Roseanne, has snagged a Tuesdays at 8pm ET/PT time slot on the network’s fall 2018 primetime schedule.
The spinoff will premiere on October 16th, followed by the premiere of the new half-hour comedy, The Kids are Alright. The remainder of the Tuesday lineup includes black-ish season five at 9pm, Splitting Up Together season two at 9:30pm, and the first season of The Rookie at 10pm.
The cast of The Conners is led by John Goodman as Dan, Laurie Metcalf as Jackie, Sara Gilbert as Darlene, Michael Fishman as D.J. and Lecy Goranson as Becky. Emma Kenney plays Harris Conner-Healy and Maya Lynne Robinson is Geena.
The comedy’s executive produced by Tom Werner, Sara Gilbert, and Tony Hernandez. Bruce Helford, Dave Caplan and Bruce Rasmussen are the season one writers and also serve as executive producers.
The Conners Plot:
“The Conners, a spinoff of the groundbreaking family comedy Roseanne, has been greenlit to series with an order of 10 episodes for fall 2018. After a sudden turn of events, the Conners are forced to face the daily struggles of life in Lanford in a way they never have before. This iconic family – Dan, Jackie, Darlene, Becky and D.J. – grapples with parenthood, dating, an unexpected pregnancy, financial pressures, aging and in-laws in working-class America. Through it all, the fights, the coupon cutting, the hand-me-downs, the breakdowns – with love, humor and perseverance, the family prevails.”
Lecy Goranson and Sara Gilbert in ‘The Conners’ (ABC/Eric McCandless) Sara Gilbert and Laurie Metcalf (ABC/Eric McCandless)John Goodman and James McNamara star in ‘The Conners’ (ABC/Eric McCandless) Laurie Metcalf, Sara Gilbert, Lecy Goranson, and John Goodman (ABC/Eric McCandless)
Michael Fishman and Maya Lynne Robinson in ‘The Conners’ (ABC/Eric McCandless)
Aaron Stanford and Mo Collins in ‘Fear the Walking Dead’ season 4 episode 14 (Photo Credit: Ryan Green/AMC)
AMC’s Fear the Walking Dead season four episode 13 ended with the mysterious woman using Al’s weapons against the group. Season four episode 14 opens with a flashback to the mysterious woman (Tonya Pinkins) comforting her husband who’s been severely injured in a car accident. The woman, who it turns out is named Martha, tries to get cars to stop and help but everyone speeds by.
Help never arrives and her husband dies. She uses a piece of glass to end his short time as a walker and then buries him not far from the road under a tree. She’s heartbroken and rages against his death.
Days later, she watches a semi pull up to mile marker 54 and drop off a box of supplies. She has a chat with Stevie, the woman dropping off the box, suggesting she change the wording on the box from “see you further” to “see you farther.” Stevie thanks her for the help, and Martha says, “I don’t help.” She kills Stevie and then adds, “And neither do you.”
Martha begins her zombie-pet thing by killing every person who walks up and takes something from a box, using the newly created zombie to kill the next person. One innocent man who’s dropping off a box is questioned about the person who began the box program. He refuses to provide any details on Polar Bear before he’s bitten.
Martha makes contact by radio with Morgan, who explains he accidentally hitched a ride in the rear of a semi.
Back to current events, the sounds of gunfire end and Morgan (Lennie James), Al (Maggie Grace), and June (Jenna Elfman) struggle to sit up after hitting the floor in the back of the truck. Luciana (Danay Garcia) is unconscious, while in the cab Sarah (Mo Collins), Wendell (Daryl Mitchell), and Jim (Aaron Stanford) assess the situation. Martha turns Al’s van around and everyone hits the floor again.
Instead of firing, Martha pulls to a stop behind the truck. Morgan determines they can’t stay inside the truck and helps the women exit the rear. Al immediately runs over to her van and a walker on a leash falls out and rolls on top of June. Al reaches for a knife but it’s actually Wendell who gets the jump on Martha. His wheelchair’s smashed but he’s able to shoot at Martha from his position on the ground.
The semi catches on fire and the engine explodes, followed by an eruption of flames in the rear of the truck. The explosion brings walkers to the area, and Martha escapes in the van leaving the group to deal with the walkers on foot.
Alycia Debnam-Carey as Alicia Clark in ‘Fear the Walking Dead’ season 4 episod 14 (Photo Credit: Ryan Green/AMC)
Later, Alicia (Alycia Debnam-Carey) and Charlie (Alexa Nisenson) arrive on the scene which is now littered with walker bodies. Charlie can’t understand how the woman on the walkie could do this, and Alicia takes a knee and bows her head as she collects her thoughts and struggles to keep her emotions under control.
Alicia and Charlie have a car and a map, but they don’t know where Morgan and the group were heading. Alicia arbitrarily decides they probably headed east.
Morgan and his group are walking on the road while being followed by hundreds of walkers. Jim struggles to pull Wendell without wheels, and Luciana is also in bad shape. Morgan sees a sign for a hospital and Sarah agrees that’s the direction to head. Jim, however, believes they should keep moving ahead of the walkers.
The group decides Jim can take off on his own if that’s what he wants. Jim opts to stick with the group.
The group makes it to the hospital. Dozens of walkers do their best to break in, and June reports on the injuries to Morgan who’s watching the front entrance. Morgan realizes they can’t stay there long, but June thinks they have to because it has medical supplies and they can catch their breath.
Al, Wendell, and Sarah search the building and find a wheelchair, walkie-talkies, and other supplies.
Charlie and Alicia run out of gas at mile marker 103 and find a truck at mile marker 108. They can’t use it, and finally Alicia admits they’re no longer looking for Morgan and the group. Instead, she’s trying to get Charlie to the beach. There’s no telling how long they have to live, so Alicia wants Charlie to fulfill that one dream as soon as possible.
Back at the hospital, Morgan continues to pile up heavy equipment in front of the front door. Jim helps Morgan, thanking him for getting him out of multiple life-threatening situations. As they talk, the walkers manage to break through the glass doors and Jim and Morgan are forced to scramble further into the hospital.
Once the group’s back together further inside the hospital, they try and figure out the best course of action. Jim reverts to his old self and blames Morgan for getting them into this situation. Morgan says the answer is to go up to higher levels of the hospital. Walkers follow them while other walkers are already in some areas of the building behind doors.
Morgan finally finds a section of the hospital that’s temporarily free of walkers and looks defensible. Items are piled in front of the door, and Al and Sarah head off to check for other exits. They find a stairwell that’s full of walkers behind a padlocked door. Morgan joins them and learns the door’s not going to hold.
The only place left to go is the roof, and June reveals hospitals always put their generators on the top floor in case of flooding. Morgan wants everyone to head to the elevator, and he and Jim head off to secure it. They’re attacked by three walkers and Jim gets his first kill after a lengthy struggle that nearly goes south a couple of times.
Sarah and Al find the generators, but there’s no way they can both escape before the walkers get in. Al tells Sarah to leave to be with her brother. Al stays behind and shuts herself in a room with the generators as the walkers shuffle forward.
June, Wendell, and Luciana can’t hold the hallway entrance any longer and race to the elevators. The walkers aren’t far behind, and Al radios the generator’s almost ready. Morgan can’t believe Al stayed behind alone. Walkers are closing in on multiple sides as the lights come on and the elevator door opens. They take the elevator to the roof which is clear of walkers.
Sarah tries to raise Al on the radio, but she doesn’t respond. Luciana believes Al’s resourceful and will find a way to get to them.
Walkers continue to walk toward the hospital while on the roof June volunteers to clean Jim’s wound. He thinks he got cut by glass fending off the walker. Unfortunately, it wasn’t glass that caused his injury. Jim has a bite wound.
Jim repeats that he has beer to make, initially unable to comprehend what happened. He finally asks how long it will take and June doesn’t know.
June and Morgan have a talk and she truly believes Al will make it back to them. Morgan admits Jim asked for his help with the walker. He laughs when June asks what’s next, no longer sure of the correct answer.
June reminds Morgan he got them there, but Morgan’s not sure he can get them out. June, however, is.
Meanwhile, Alicia and Charlie continue on foot. They’re 100 miles from the coast and Charlie doesn’t want to go any further. She wants to continue to look for Morgan, but Alicia doesn’t think they stand a chance of doing that. She’s determined to get Charlie to Galveston to see the beach. She believes that’s something good she can accomplish, and she admits she just needs something to be good.
Charlie agrees that she also needs something good.
As they’re talking Charlie hears water. It turns out the water is a flooded road, but Charlie’s willing to accept it as a beach. Charlie picks up John Dorie’s hat at the edge of the water and then tells Alicia to look across the water. She does and says, “Holy sh*t.”
With Peter Farrelly’s Green Book scoring an unexpected win at the 2018 Toronto International Film Festival in the coveted People’s Choice category, the drama’s solidified its shot at Oscar glory. A People’s Choice Award win all but guarantees a Best Picture Oscar nomination, and now Universal Pictures will have to kick up the film’s awards season campaign a few notches.
Peter Farrelly, one half of the sibling filmmaking team behind What About Mary, Dumb and Dumber, and Hall Pass, made his solo feature film directing debut with TIFF winner. Green Book is based on a true story and stars Viggo Mortensen as a bouncer who drives a world class pianist (Mahershala Ali) on his concert tour from Manhattan to the Deep South during the racially-charged 1960s. The film was embraced by Toronto Film Festival audiences and currently sits at 100% fresh on Rotten Tomatoes.
Green Book was written by Peter Farrelly, Nick Vallelonga, and Brian Currie. Linda Cardellini, Sebastian Maniscalco, Dimiter D. Marinov, and P.J. Byrne co-star in the drama. Universal Pictures is targeting a November 21, 2018 theatrical release.
2018 Toronto Film Festival Winners:
People’s Choice Award – Green Book
First runner-up: If Beale Street Could Talk
Second runner-up: ROMA
People’s Choice Midnight Madness Award – The Man Who Feels No Pain (Mard Ko Dard Nahi Hota)
First runner-up: Halloween
Second runner-up: Assassination Nation
People’s Choice Documentary Award – Free Solo
First runner-up: This Changes Everything
Second runner-up: The Biggest Little Farm
Platform Prize – Cities of Last Things
Honourable Mention: The River
FIPRESCI Prize for Special Presentations – Skin
Honourable Mention: A Faithful Man
FIPRESCI Prize for Discovery – Float Like a Butterfly
Honourable Mention: Twin Flower
NETPAC Award – The Third Wife
Honourable Mention: The Crossing
Eurimages Audentia Award for Best Female Director – Aäläm-Wärqe Davidian’s Fig Tree
Best Canadian First Feature Film – Katherine Jerkovic’s Roads in February (Les routes en février)
Best Canadian Feature Film – Sebastien Pilote’s The Fireflies Are Gone (La disparition des lucioles)
The Predator booted Tom Cruise’s The Mummy from the top spot on the lowest domestic box office opening weekend chart for live-action films released in 4,000+ theaters.* The Predator took over the (dis)honor by ringing up just $24 million over its first three days in theaters.
While the return of The Predator franchise proved to be a box office disappointment, New Line Cinema’s The Conjuring franchise continues to soar. The Nun made it over the $200 million mark at the box office in just its second weekend in theaters.
Commenting on the box office milestone, Tom Molter, Head of International Distribution, Warner Bros. Pictures, stated, “The Nun continues to scare up audiences around the world, and records are being broken in every region—particularly in Latin America and Mexico, where the popularity of star Demian Bichir has drawn fans to the cinema in big numbers. We applaud the whole cast, as well as all of the filmmakers behind The Nun, on this tremendous success.”
“This is another great milestone for New Line Cinema’s horror-verse, which continues to set new standards for the genre,” said Jeff Goldstein, President of Domestic Distribution, Warner Bros. Pictures. “We congratulate them and everyone involved in creating another terrifying time at the movies, including director Corin Hardy, producers James Wan and Peter Safran, and the cast, led by Demian Bichir and Taissa Farmiga.”
Next weekend The Predator will be facing competition from Michael Moore’s new political documentary, Fahrenheit 11/9. The family fantasy film The House With A Clock In Its Walls starring Jack Black and Cate Blanchett as well as the dramatic film Life Itself will also be opening in theaters on November 21, 2018.
The Predator Plot: “From the outer reaches of space to the to the backwoods of southern Georgia, the hunt comes home in Shane Black’s explosive reinvention of the Predator series. Now, the universe’s most lethal hunters are stronger, smarter and deadlier than ever before. And only a ragtag crew of ex-soldiers and an evolutionary biology professor can prevent the end of the human race.”
Elizabeth Tulloch is The CW’s Lois Lane (Photo by Diana Ragland)
The CW’s found its Lois Lane. Grimm star Elizabeth Tulloch has signed on to play the popular comic book character in the network’s crossover episodes airing during the fall 2018 primetime season.
The Arrowverse crossover episodes will begin on Sunday, December 9, 2018 at 8pm ET/PT. For the much anticipated upcoming season’s crossover week, The Flash and Supergirl will swap places. The Flash will kick off this year’s crossover on December 9, night two of the crossover will be on Arrow on Monday, December 10th, and the three-night event will wrap up on Tuesday, December 11 on Supergirl.
Lois Lane has yet to appear in The CW’s Arrowverse, however Jenna Dewan played her sister, Lucy, in the first season of Supergirl. Lois’ father, General Sam Lane, also appeared in a few episodes of Supergirl, with Glen Morshower in the role.
The Arrowverse crossover will also introduce Kate Kane aka Batwoman, played by Orange is the New Black standout Ruby Rose. Rose will then take on the lead role in the Batwoman series which is in development. Rose’s Batwoman is described as “an out lesbian and highly trained street fighter primed to snuff out the failing city’s criminal resurgence. But don’t call her a hero yet. In a city desperate for a savior, Kate must overcome her own demons before embracing the call to be Gotham’s symbol of hope.”
Tyler Hoechlin will be reprising his role as Superman during the crossover. Cassandra Jean Amell (One Tree Hill, Hart of Dixie), wife of Arrow star Stephen Amell, is joining the Arrowverse in the role of supervillain Nora Fries. The character Mr. Freeze has appeared in Fox’s Gotham but has never been seen in The CW’s Arrowverse.
Elizabeth (‘Bitsie’) Tulloch recently finished up six seasons as Juliette Silverton / Eve on NBC’s fantasy drama, Grimm. Tulloch’s credits also include Concussion with Will Smith, Parkland with Billy Bob Thornton and Paul Giamatti, and the Oscar-winning film The Artist with Jean Dujardin.
Michael Fishman and Maya Lynne Robinson in ‘The Conners’ (ABC/Eric McCandless)
ABC’s The Conners has signed up Maya Lynne Robinson (creator of the web series HTMAST) in a series regular role for the show’s upcoming first season minus Roseanne Barr. Robinson will take over the role of DJ’s wife, Geena Williams-Connor, in the new season. The character only briefly made an appearance in last year’s revival of Roseanne, with Xosha Roquemore in the role.
Robinson joins the cast that includes John Goodman as Dan, Laurie Metcalf as Jackie, and Sara Gilbert as Darlene. Lecy Goranson is Becky, Michael Fishman is D.J., Emma Kenney is Harris, Ames McNamara is Mark, and Jayden Rey plays Mary.
“We’re thrilled to welcome the incredibly talented Maya Lynne Robinson to the cast this season. Her character 2nd Lieutenant Geena Conner, whom a younger DJ was reluctant to kiss in his school play, comes full circle as his wife and Mary’s mother, bringing back a little piece of Conner history. Yet, while Geena is no stranger to the family, viewers old and new will enjoy seeing how her ‘military-style’ discipline meshes with the Conners’ more laid-back attitude,” stated showrunner and executive producer Bruce Helford.
Tom Werner, Sara Gilbert, Dave Caplan, Bruce Rasmussen, and Tony Hernandez serve as executive producers. Bruce Helford, Dave Caplan, and Bruce Rasmussen are the new season’s writers.
The Conners will be joining ABC’s fall primetime lineup on Tuesday, October 16, 2018 at 8pm ET/PT.
The Conners Plot:
“After a sudden turn of events, the Conners are forced to face the daily struggles of life in Lanford in a way they never have before. This iconic family – Dan, Jackie, Darlene, Becky and D.J. – grapples with parenthood, dating, an unexpected pregnancy, financial pressures, aging and in-laws in working-class America. Through it all, the fights, the coupon cutting, the hand-me-downs, the breakdowns – with love, humor and perseverance, the family prevails.”
The official trailer for Ride warns “some rides should never be taken.” The two-minute trailer demonstrates why that’s true as two strangers meet, have a fun night out, and then suddenly find themselves forced into potentially life-threatening situations by a crazy dude who inserts himself in their story.
The cast of the thriller includes Bella Thorne (Famous in Love, Assassination Nation), Jessie T. Usher (Independence Day: Resurgence, Survivor’s Remorse), and Will Brill (The OA, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel). Jeremy Ungar wrote the script and directed the 2018 action film.
Sefton Fincham, Tyler Jackson, and Keith Kjarval produced, with Dean Buchanan, John Giagoudis, David Grace, Mike Rowe, Levi Sheck, and Alexander Smith executive producing.
Ride‘s behind the scenes team includes director of photography Rob Givens, editor Kayla Emter, production designer Frances Lynn Hernandez, and costume designer Charlese Antoinette Jones. The film’s music is provided by Paul Haslinger.
RLJE Films will release Ride in theaters, On Demand and Digital HD on October 5, 2018.
The Ride Plot:
“A struggling actor by day, James (Jessie T. Usher) pays his bills by driving people around Los Angeles for a ride sharing service. His night starts out like any other, but he can’t believe his luck when he picks up the beautiful Jessica (Bella Thorne), and they immediately hit it off. His next fare, the fast-talking Bruno (Will Brill), convinces James to go back and invite her to join them for a wild night out. But things take a shocking turn when Bruno, armed with a gun and a twisted idea of fun, forces them on a terrifying, white-knuckle ride that quickly spirals out of control.”
New Girl‘s Max Greenfield and The Soul Man‘s Cedric the Entertainer team up on CBS’s new comedy series, The Neighborhood. The half-hour comedy joins the network’s fall 2018 primetime schedule on October 1st and will air on Mondays at 8pm ET/PT. Happy Together, another new half-hour comedy, follows at 8:30pm.
The series is executive produced by Cedric the Entertainer, Jim Reynolds, Aaron Kaplan, Dana Honor, Wendi Trilling, and Eric Rhone. James Burrows serves as executive producer for the pilot.
In addition to Cedric the Entertainer as Calvin Butler and Max Greenfield as Dave Johnson, the cast includes Sheaun McKinney as Malcolm Butler, Marcel Spears as Marty Butler, and Hank Greenspan as Grover Johnson. Tichina Arnold and Beth Behrs also star in season one.
The Neighborhood Plot:
“The Neighborhood stars Cedric the Entertainer in a comedy about what happens when the friendliest guy in the Midwest moves his family to a neighborhood in Los Angeles where not everyone looks like him or appreciates his extreme neighborliness.
Dave Johnson is a good-natured, professional conflict negotiator. When his wife, Gemma, gets a job as a school principal in L.A., they move from Michigan with their young son, Grover, unfazed that their new dream home is located in a community quite different from their small town. Their opinionated next-door neighbor, Calvin Butler, is wary of the newcomers, certain that the Johnsons will disrupt the culture on the block. However, Calvin’s gracious wife, Tina, rolls out the welcome wagon; their chipper younger son, Marty, thinks the Johnsons could be good for the community; and their unemployed older son, Malcolm, finds Dave may finally be someone who understands him.
Dave realizes that fitting into their new community is more complex than he expected, but if he can find a way to connect with Calvin, they have an excellent chance of making their new neighborhood their home.”
The cast of National Geographic, Fox 21 Television Studios and Scott Free Productions’ The Hot Zone has expanded to include The Americans‘ Noah Emmerich. Liam Cunningham (Game of Thrones), Topher Grace (BlacKkKlansman), Paul James (The Path), Nick Searcy (The Shape of Water), Robert Wisdom (The Wire) and Robert Sean Leonard (House) have also joined the cast of the miniseries.
Shooting began today in Toronto, with additional filming scheduled to take place in South Africa later this year. National Geographic is targeting a 2019 worldwide premiere of the miniseries.
The new cast members join Julianna Margulies (The Good Wife, Dietland) who was previously announced to take on a starring role. James D’Arcy (Homeland) is on board as a guest star.
The Hot Zone six-part miniseries is based on the bestselling novel by Richard Preston. Michael Uppendahl (Castle Rock, Fargo) and Nick Murphy (Save Me, The Secret) are directing the series. Kelly Soulders (Genius, Salem) and Brian Peterson (Genius, Salem) are co-showrunners as well as executive producers. Lynda Obst Production’s Lynda Obst and Scott Free Production’s Ridley Scott and David Zucker also serve as executive producers along with Michael Uppendahl.
The Hot Zone Plot and Character Details:
“The Hotel Zone tells the story of the origins of Ebola, a highly infectious and deadly virus from the central African rain forest, and its arrival on U.S. soil in 1989. When this killer suddenly appeared in monkeys in a scientific research lab in the suburbs of Washington, D.C., there was no known cure. A heroic U.S. Army scientist working with a secret military specialized team put her life on the line to head off the outbreak before it spread to the human population. The Hotel Zone is a dramatic, high-stakes scientific thriller with a courageous, brilliant and determined heroine at its center.
Noah Emmerich joins as Lt. Col. Jerry Jaax, husband of Nancy Jaax (Margulies), who doesn’t hesitate to risk his life during the operation to contain the Ebola virus. Liam Cunningham is set to portray Wade Carter, Dr. Nancy Jaax’s vital ally in the race to prevent the virus from spreading. Topher Grace is Dr. Peter Jahrling, virologist for the United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases, who butts heads with Dr. Jaax over the best way to contain the virus. James D’Arcy is Center for Disease Control official Trevor Rhodes, Carter’s former assistant and current nemesis. Paul James will play Ben Gellis, a lab tech at the pathology lab in Reston, Virginia, assisting Dr. Jaax and Dr. Jahrling. Nick Searcy is Frank Mays, the exhausted colony manager at the Reston Monkey Facility where the virus originated.
Robert Wisdom joins as Col. Vernon Tucker of USAMRIID, Dr. Jaax’s superior. And Robert Sean Leonard will portray company man Walter Humboldt, the liaison between Hazleton, a scientific research corporation, and its primate lab in Reston.”
If Shane Black’s goal was to put a nail in Fox’s The Predator franchise, then well done and congratulations. The latest entry in the lethal creature from outer space series is one of the weakest of the franchise, which is a shame as the ensemble appeared to be all-in on resurrecting the series.
An alien spacecraft crashes into the jungles of Mexico, close to where Quinn McKenna (Boyd Holbrook) and his fellow soldiers are patrolling. Quinn quickly deduces he’s in a life or death fight with an alien and once he gets the upper-hand, he takes the time to steal the alien’s helmet and one wrist guard before skedaddling out of the forest.
Rather than turning them over to the military, he mails them to his PO Box back home. In an unlikely turn of events, the contents of his box just so happen to be dropped off at his ex’s house because he hasn’t paid his bill. His young son, Rory (Jacob Tremblay), opens the box and figures out how to use the alien’s computer. Rory’s able to do this because he’s autistic and the writers have loaded the character with every cliché regarding autism imaginable. (Classmates make fun of the fact he has Asperger Syndrome, the go-to diagnosis for Hollywood screenwriters writing characters on the autism spectrum.)
Quinn’s alien encounter is covered up and he’s sent off to the psych ward. Fortunately for him, he’s not the only soldier being sent off to a locked facility and on the bus ride he meets an odd assortment of fellow psych patients. Baxley (Thomas Jane) spouts always inappropriate obscenities due to Tourette syndrome. Lynch, played by Game of Thrones’ Reek, Alfie Allen, is a fellow prisoner who’s only real contribution to the mission/film is performing card tricks. Keegan-Michael Key’s the jokester of the group, the deliverer of snappy one-liners, and that’s pretty much all we learn about his character. Trevante Rhodes plays the straight man of the group, the de facto leader until Quinn commandeers that position.
Meanwhile, the injured Predator is brought to a secure facility run by a real looney bird named Traeger (Sterling K. Brown). Traeger brings in scientist Casey Bracket (Olivia Munn) to help figure out why there’s an anomaly in the creature’s DNA that has no business being present. One thing leads to another, the Predator kills nearly everyone on the base, and the hunt is on.
Boyd Holbrook, Trevante Rhodes, Keegan Michael-Key, Thomas Jane and Augusto Aguilera in Twentieth Century Fox’s ‘The Predator.’
The Predator is an equal opportunity offender and no character emerges unscathed. Brown’s Traeger is more of a threat than the Predator, and for some bizarre reason he’s more interested in killing off Quinn and the gang than the creature from outer space. Holbrook’s Quinn can’t hold a candle to Schwarzenegger’s “Dutch,” and there’s not a character in the group that leaves a lasting impression.
A lazy script – this incarnation uses disabilities for laughs – makes The Predator a bit of a soul-sucking experience to sit through. The “thriller” also features some of the most jarring editing and continuity issues of any major release of the past decade. I can’t even recall a feature film that’s left me as frustrated over the random insertion of scenes that lack any connection to what comes before or after.
The Predator’s a huge mess that’s full of missed opportunities. One-dimensional characters populate the film, with the only upside to their lack of development being it doesn’t matter when they’re killed off.
GRADE: D
Release Date: September 14, 2018
Running Time: 1 hour 47 minutes
MPAA Rating: R for strong bloody violence, language throughout, and crude sexual references
