Godzilla: King of the Monsters
The Excitement Prior to the Premiere The anticipation for the movie Godzilla: King of the Monsters was comparable to a weather alert in the country long before the movie was released in 2019. The fans of MonsterVerse, still delighted with the realist take on Godzilla (2014), were waiting on something even louder, bigger, and more […]
Jurassic World
Jurassic World wasn’t just another sequel. It was a resurrection. The wonder and awe that was felt for Jurassic Park (1993) had been absent for two decades. For so many who grew up wishing to see dinosaurs walk the earth, it was a restored fantasy. Jurassic World was a cultural masterpiece; it changed the social […]
Jurassic World: Rebirth
With the release of Jurassic World: Rebirth in 2025, the world feared and feted dinosaurs all over again, while also welcoming back a modern cultural phenomenon. Spielberg’s much- derided vision of 1993 as a cautionary take started a global multi-faceted obsession with nostalgia. In this case, Rebirth has much more than a primordial obsession to […]
Predator: Badlands
When the Hunt Began, It Changed Everything When Predator: Badlands was released into theaters in 2025, the audience anticipated action, blood, and alien warfare. What they encountered was something more taxing—an endurance trial that showcased a conflict for survival. Set in the arid and dusty American southwest, the film reinterpreted the Predator mythos. It left […]
The Shallows
When Survival Met Style When The Shallows hit theaters in 2016, audiences anticipated another thriller centered on sharks. Instead, they received a much more meaningful film, one that transformed the story of a lone woman’s fight for survival into a cultural phenomenon. The narrative of The Shallows went beyond the struggle of Blake Lively battling […]
Kandahar
The Story That Hid More Than It Revealed Among the audience who watched Kandahar when it released in 2023, many expected yet another mediocre action movie starring Gerard Butler, “Kandahar” — another dusty plain, another secret mission, another “one man” racing the clock. As the credits rolled, the audience were left in silence, not too […]
Breaking Surface
When a Survival Story Became a Social Conversation Initially, Breaking Surface (2020) seemed like a simple Nordic survival thriller. One half-sister is trapped underwater while the other is on a diving trip in remote Norway, and is desperately trying to rescue her. With the cold water, the ticking clock, and the raw emotions at play, […]
The Gray Man
A Thriller That Whispers More Than It Shoots When The Gray Man hit screens in 2022, it promised adrenaline, globe-trotting espionage, and nonstop action. Directed by the Russo brothers and starring Ryan Gosling as Court Gentry and Chris Evans as Lloyd Hansen, it delivered exactly that — yet beneath the guns and car chases, there’s […]
Cloverfield
When New York Became a Playground for Fear 2008 brought with it Cloverfield which escaped the traditional confines of monster-horror movies to provide a hybrid piece of cinema that successfully integrates found-footage and created cinema on a blockbuster scale. Directed by Matt Reeves and produced by J. J. Abrams, the monster-horror film tracks a tape-recorded […]
Gemini Man
The Story that Echoed Real Life Will Smith portrayed the character Henry Brogan, a government assassin who is burdened by age, conscience, and the memories of the merciless missions he performed in the past. Just as he is about to retire, he is being hunted by a mysterious operative, his younger clone, Junior. What follows […]