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PREDATOR: BADLANDS – Review by Valerie Kalfrin

November 13, 2025November 17, 2025 Valerie Kalfrin Dan Trachtenberg, Dimitrius Schuster-Koloamatangi, elle fanning, hulu, Michael Homik, Patrick Aison, Predator: Badlands

This is director Dan Trachtenberg’s third Predator-related film after Prey and Predator: Killer of Killers. Predator: Badlands deserves its theatrical release, especially in IMAX, where viewers can appreciate the special effects team’s impressive work and intricate fight choreography. The planet is rich with color and texture, deceptively inviting with glass that glistens like ice and slices like razors, vines with teeth and minds of their own, and maimed creatures that somehow regenerate.

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PREY – Review by Susan Granger

August 3, 2022August 4, 2022 Susan Granger Amber Midthunder, Dakota Beavers, Dan Trachtenberg, Diliegro, Patrick Aison, Prey

It has been 35 years since the original sci-fi action thriller Predator (1987) was released – and Prey is a worthy complement to the franchise. Set in 1719 in the Comanche Nation on the rugged Northern Great Plains, the story revolves around wannabe warrior Naru, who is determined to be recognized by her tribe as a hunter like her skeptical older brother Taabe “Why do you want to hunt?” inquires her mother. “Because you all think I can’t,” Naru replies.