Film thoughts – The Predator

31 years have passed since the original Predator added to Arnold Schwarzenegger’s growing catalogue of action films, lifted above many of it’s contemporaries by the presence of an alien created in the mind of the late Stan Winston that posed a very real threat and physical match to Schwarzenegger and team. In the intervening years…

Film thoughts – X Men: Apocalypse

When your film is the third in a trilogy, and you have one of your main characters speak a line about how the third film in a trilogy is always the worst, especially when you happen to be part of a film series of which the previous trilogy ended with a clunker for a third…