Predator: Killer of Killers Gets the Formula Right

PREDATOR: KILLER OF KILLERS

The Predator franchise is the platonic ideal of an action horror franchise.  There are highly skilled people in the world, and there’s a whole race of monsters that hunts those people for sport. The setup is simple, allowing it to serve as a framework for various kinds of stories.  At their worst, films in the franchise are dumb-but-fun action movies; at their best, they’re character-focused stories that illuminate deeper truths about humanity.  The latest entry in the franchise, Predator: Killer of Killers,  is an animated anthology that lands somewhere in the middle of that.  

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Podcast: Lightyear & Prey

Lightyear & Prey

Greetings, programs, and welcome to another episode of the Awesome Friday Podcast. This week we’re talking about two new Disney releases: First, the latest Pixar Studios animated feature, Lightyear, followed by Prey director Dan Trachtenberg’s prequel to to the 1980s action horror classic Predator.

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