Josh Cooley directed the latest Transformers movie, which is entirely animated and sure to draw kids’ attention for many years.
Transformers One is the untold origin story of Optimus Prime and Megatron, better known as sworn enemies. Once, they were friends who bonded like brothers. They changed the fate of Cybertron forever.
In the first-ever fully CG-animated Transformers movie, Transformers One features a well-known voice cast, including Chris Hemsworth, Brian Tyree Henry, Scarlett Johansson, Keegan-Michael Key, Steve Buscemi, with Laurence Fishburne, and Jon Hamm.
Fede Alvarez directed Alien: Romulus, a film about a group of young people from a distant world who come face-to-face with the most terrifying life form in the universe. Dan O’Bannon, Fede Alvarez and Rodo Sayagues wrote the script. Ridley Scott, the original director of the Alien franchise, produced the movie.
The first trailer is six seconds over one minute, so it doesn’t tell us much. We hear screaming and see a bloodbath and aliens. Alvarez reportedly said the story takes place between the Alien and Aliens movies.
Historically, Romulus was the creator and initial king of Rome. He’s also known for having a twin brother, Remus. Mythology surrounds Romain history at this time with unclear events and institutions.
The cast of Alien: Romulus includes Isabela Merced, Cailee Spaeny, Archie Renaux and David Jonsson.
From DreamWorks Animation comes a new adaptation of a literary sensation: Peter Brown’s beloved, award-winning, and #1 New York Times bestseller The Wild Robot.
The epic adventure parallels Hayao Miyazaki’s storytelling without the Japanese filmmaker’s artistic, non-AI quality.
Chris Sanders wrote and directed the film, which follows the journey of a robot—ROZZUM unit 7134, “Roz” for short. The robot crashes on an uninhabited island and must learn to adapt to the harsh surroundings. Gradually, he builds relationships with the animals on the island and becomes the adoptive parent of an orphaned gosling.
The Wild Robot stars Lupita Nyong’o as robot Roz, Pedro Pascal as fox Fink; Catherine O’Hara as opossum Pinktail; Bill Nighy as goose Longneck; Kit Connor as gosling Brightbill and Stephanie Hsu as Vontra, a robot that will intersect with Roz’s life on the island.
The film also features the voice talents of Mark Hamill, Matt Berry, and Ving Rhames.
It’s a powerful story about the discovery of self, a thrilling examination of the bridge between technology and nature and a moving exploration of what it means to be alive and connected to all living things.
Created and written by Peter Harness, Michelle MacLaren directs the first episode, Constellation, which stars Noomi Rapace as Jo, an astronaut who returns to Earth after a disaster in space.
She discovers that critical pieces of her life seem to be missing.
This action-packed space adventure explores the dark edges of human psychology and one woman’s desperate quest to expose the truth about the hidden history of space travel and recover all that she has lost.
George Miller continues his Mad Max franchise with Anya Taylor-Joy taking on the lead role of Furiosa, which is also the movie’s name. Nick Lathouris and Miller wrote the screenplay Miller directed.
Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga follows the original story of renegade warrior Furiosa before she teamed up with Mad Max in Fury Road. Mad Max fans are sure to get their fill in this latest installment.
Other cast members include Tom Burke, Angus Sampson, Daniel Webber and Nathan Jones.
Written and directed by Brian Duffield, No One Will Save You spends some time with Brynn, played by Kaitlyn Dever. Her comfy home becomes a battleground for an alien invasion.
Duffield cut his teeth writing screenplays for Love and Monsters, Underwater, The Divergent Series: Insurgent and The Babysitter.
The horror, science-fiction movie begins streaming on Hulu on September 22, 2023. The film will set you up for the latest horror movies to fill your time during Halloween.
Directed by Garth Davis with a screenplay by Iain Reid and Davis based on the book by Iain Reid, Foe stars Saoirse Ronan, Paul Mescal, and Aaron Pierre.
Foe is a science-fiction thriller as a haunting exploration of marriage and identity with a setting in an uncertain world. Hen and Junior, played by Ronan and Mescal, farm a secluded piece of land that’s been in Junior’s family for generations.
An uninvited stranger, played by Pierre, throws their otherwise quiet life into turmoil. He shows up at their farm door with a startling proposal.
Davis helms a story through Foe’s mesmerizing imagery. He brings persistent questions to the surface. They concern the nature of humanity and artificial humanity. Davis draws attention to the not-too-distant future of a luminous life.
Davis is an Australian film and television director known for directing Lion (his debut feature) and Mary Magdalene. He also directed episodes for Top of the Lake, starring Elisabeth Moss, noted in a Vanity Fair.
Gareth Edwards directs The Creator, a science-fiction action thriller about a war against artificial intelligence. Chris Weitz and Edwards wrote the screenplay based on a story from Edwards. The film follows ex-Special Forces agent Joshua, played by John David Washington. He’s recruited to hunt down and eliminate the Creator, who designed a mysterious weapon with the power to end the war or humankind.
Gemma Chan, Ken Watanabe, Sturgill Simpson and Allison Janney star in the film.
Written for the screen and directed by Cory Finley, Landscape with Invisible Hand is based on the Book by: M.T. Anderson.
Two teens, played by Kylie Rogers and Asante Blackk, plan to secure their families’ futures in a world of alien rule, where the aliens have advanced technology. The teenagers pose as boyfriend and girlfriend to earn viewer shares. But they fake it to make money.
Ben Wheatley directed MEG 2: The Trench from the screenplay by Jon Hoeber, Dean Georgaris and Eric Hoeber. The science fiction action film stars Jason Statham, Wu Jing, Sienna Guillory, and Page Kennedy.
Based on Steve Alten’s 1999 novel The Trench, which is part of a series about a prehistoric megalodon, a giant shark, The catchphrase when he introduced his first novel was “Jurassic Shark.”
I met Alten before his book first was published. It’s a fascinating success story, where I think he had to make some wise career choices.
