The latest “Predator” spin-off movie, “Prey,” is hunting down a nomination for Best TV Movie at this year’s Emmys. Given the cinematic filmmaking on display combined with the enthusiastic reviews for the flick, it would have been a strong Oscar contender. That pedigree is why it currently sits in joint second in our odds chart for Best TV Movie alongside “Fire Island.” In top spot is “Weird: The Al Yankovic Story” while the other two predicted nominees are “Hocus Pocus 2” and “Jerry and Marge Go Large.” “Prey” has the gravitas and cinematic weight, however, to emerge top of that crowded pack.
Directed by Dan Trachtenberg, “Prey” follows Amber Midthunder in 1719 as Naru, a warrior of the Comanche Nation who is forced to protect her tribe from one of the very first Predators to ever land on Earth. The film is a tight, taut, practice in tension and features...
Directed by Dan Trachtenberg, “Prey” follows Amber Midthunder in 1719 as Naru, a warrior of the Comanche Nation who is forced to protect her tribe from one of the very first Predators to ever land on Earth. The film is a tight, taut, practice in tension and features...
- 3/29/2023
- by Jacob Sarkisian
- Gold Derby
By Marc Butterfield
“A long time ago, it is said, a monster came here.”
An all-new action-thriller from 20th Century Studios directed by Dan Trachtenberg, Prey is the latest entry in the Predator franchise. Set in the Comanche Nation 300 years ago, Prey is the story of a young woman, Naru, a fierce and highly skilled warrior, so when danger threatens her camp, she sets out to prove herself a worthy hunter. The prey she stalks, and ultimately confronts, turns out to be a highly evolved alien Predator with a technically advanced arsenal, resulting in a vicious and terrifying showdown between the two adversaries.
The story opens September, 1719, the Northern Great Plains.
They waste No time starting a story that is both beautiful, and terrifying. It introduces the characters artfully, never feeling rushed or incomplete, and sets up the social dynamics of the tribe well enough that you get to know...
“A long time ago, it is said, a monster came here.”
An all-new action-thriller from 20th Century Studios directed by Dan Trachtenberg, Prey is the latest entry in the Predator franchise. Set in the Comanche Nation 300 years ago, Prey is the story of a young woman, Naru, a fierce and highly skilled warrior, so when danger threatens her camp, she sets out to prove herself a worthy hunter. The prey she stalks, and ultimately confronts, turns out to be a highly evolved alien Predator with a technically advanced arsenal, resulting in a vicious and terrifying showdown between the two adversaries.
The story opens September, 1719, the Northern Great Plains.
They waste No time starting a story that is both beautiful, and terrifying. It introduces the characters artfully, never feeling rushed or incomplete, and sets up the social dynamics of the tribe well enough that you get to know...
- 8/3/2022
- by Movie Geeks
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Before we’re even out of the opening credits of “The Map of Tiny Perfect Things,” director Ian Samuels and screenwriter Lev Grossman waste no time clueing us into its premise revolving around a time loop that will teach its teen protagonists to accept life’s little gifts and major detours. This John Green-lite fantasy for the young-adult crowd holds many sequences that sparkle and shine, but a few that stumble and sag as well. Yet the feature’s genteel, sweet spirit and radiant lead performances rescue it from forgettable mediocrity and genre familiarity.
Seventeen-year-old budding artist Mark (Kyle Allen) begins all his mundane mornings the same way — not by choice, but because he’s trapped in a time loop. Every day he wakes up at the same exact time, sees his workaholic mom drive away, greets his dad Daniel (Josh Hamilton) and irascible younger sister Emma (Cleo Fraser) at the breakfast table,...
Seventeen-year-old budding artist Mark (Kyle Allen) begins all his mundane mornings the same way — not by choice, but because he’s trapped in a time loop. Every day he wakes up at the same exact time, sees his workaholic mom drive away, greets his dad Daniel (Josh Hamilton) and irascible younger sister Emma (Cleo Fraser) at the breakfast table,...
- 2/9/2021
- by Courtney Howard
- Variety Film + TV
Los Angeles -- It's easy to understand why Hollywood loves doing business with author Nicholas Sparks. His books are huge best-sellers, and several of the films adapted from his novels – "Message in a Bottle," "The Notebook," and "Dear John" – have achieved impressive box office grosses. The latest Sparks adaptation, "Safe Haven," will probably continue his winning streak, especially with its Valentine's Day opening pegged to lure female fans. A thriller element that has not been present in earlier Sparks movies is designed to draw reluctant male viewers to see the picture, but they won't respond with the same enthusiasm as his core audience of woozy romantics.
The mystery plot recalls a 1991 Julia Roberts movie, Sleeping with the Enemy, in which the heroine fled an abusive husband and tried to re-invent herself in a brand new community. In this case our heroine, Katie (Julianne Hough), runs away from a toxic marriage in Boston,...
The mystery plot recalls a 1991 Julia Roberts movie, Sleeping with the Enemy, in which the heroine fled an abusive husband and tried to re-invent herself in a brand new community. In this case our heroine, Katie (Julianne Hough), runs away from a toxic marriage in Boston,...
- 2/14/2013
- by AP
- Huffington Post
PARK CITY, Utah -- It's not baseball, apple pie or Chevrolet, but few things are more American than a story about a working-class, Polish immigrant family in Detroit. In Theresa Connelly's directorial debut, which premiered over the weekend at the Sundance Film Festival, "Polish Wedding" takes the audience back to her hometown and its ethnic roots. Its homespun simplicity and family values are refreshing and will undoubtedly play well in Detroit and elsewhere.
Typical first-generation immigrants, the Pzoniaks take a first cut at the American dream as a multiple-income, extended family. Papa (Gabriel Byrne) brings home a slice of bacon as a baker; Mama (Lena Olin) and daughter-in-law perform janitorial duties at a local factory; three grown sons get to play with an 18-wheeler for a living. While elder family members work, the only daughter (Claire Danes), a high school dropout, babysits a nephew as her prepubescent brother puffs on cigarettes in the basement.
The story evolves around the smart, strong, sultry matriarch, played perfectly by Olin, and her daughter, the beautiful Danes as Hala, who looks as virginal as she is seductive. Indeed, the local priest, naive to her reputation, picks Hala to play Mother Mary in the May Day procession. Like mother, like daughter, the Pzoniak women have a tendency to exercise their feminine charms when the Pzoniak men aren't looking. For these professed Roman Catholics, infidelities are sacraments to the self-proclaimed religion of "making love and life."
In keeping with the film's childbirth theme, Connelly's characters mark personal growth in little steps and forge familial bonds through a series of mistakes. With these subjects, her style is predictably maternal. In Connelly's nursing hands, the film is sweet but borders on sappy. The international cast and crew do a superlative job portraying the Pzoniaks as an all-American family. Byrne, as the immigrant baker, looks and acts as if he just got off the boat.
The production designer, Kara Lindstrom, deserves praise for creating the Pzoniak house with its pickle-jar pantry for confessional and its basement, where the family's real and psychic laundry take a bath.
POLISH WEDDING
Credits: Producers: Tom Rosenberg, Julia Chasman, Geoff Stier; Director-screenwriter: Theresa Connelly; Executive producers: Nich Wechsler, Sijurjon Sighvatsoon, Ted Tannebaum; Director of photography: Guy Dufaux; Editors: Curtis Clayton, Suzanne Fenn; Production designer: Kara Lindstrom; Music: Luis Bacalov. Cast: Jadzia Pzoniak: Lena Olin; Bolek Pzoniak: Gabriel Byrne; Hala Pzoniak: Claire Danes; Russell Schuster: Adam Trese; Sofie Pzoniak: Mili Avital; Ziggy Pzoniak: Daniel Lapaine; Roman: Rade Serbedzija. No MPAA rating. Running time -- 100 minutes. Color/stereo.
Typical first-generation immigrants, the Pzoniaks take a first cut at the American dream as a multiple-income, extended family. Papa (Gabriel Byrne) brings home a slice of bacon as a baker; Mama (Lena Olin) and daughter-in-law perform janitorial duties at a local factory; three grown sons get to play with an 18-wheeler for a living. While elder family members work, the only daughter (Claire Danes), a high school dropout, babysits a nephew as her prepubescent brother puffs on cigarettes in the basement.
The story evolves around the smart, strong, sultry matriarch, played perfectly by Olin, and her daughter, the beautiful Danes as Hala, who looks as virginal as she is seductive. Indeed, the local priest, naive to her reputation, picks Hala to play Mother Mary in the May Day procession. Like mother, like daughter, the Pzoniak women have a tendency to exercise their feminine charms when the Pzoniak men aren't looking. For these professed Roman Catholics, infidelities are sacraments to the self-proclaimed religion of "making love and life."
In keeping with the film's childbirth theme, Connelly's characters mark personal growth in little steps and forge familial bonds through a series of mistakes. With these subjects, her style is predictably maternal. In Connelly's nursing hands, the film is sweet but borders on sappy. The international cast and crew do a superlative job portraying the Pzoniaks as an all-American family. Byrne, as the immigrant baker, looks and acts as if he just got off the boat.
The production designer, Kara Lindstrom, deserves praise for creating the Pzoniak house with its pickle-jar pantry for confessional and its basement, where the family's real and psychic laundry take a bath.
POLISH WEDDING
Credits: Producers: Tom Rosenberg, Julia Chasman, Geoff Stier; Director-screenwriter: Theresa Connelly; Executive producers: Nich Wechsler, Sijurjon Sighvatsoon, Ted Tannebaum; Director of photography: Guy Dufaux; Editors: Curtis Clayton, Suzanne Fenn; Production designer: Kara Lindstrom; Music: Luis Bacalov. Cast: Jadzia Pzoniak: Lena Olin; Bolek Pzoniak: Gabriel Byrne; Hala Pzoniak: Claire Danes; Russell Schuster: Adam Trese; Sofie Pzoniak: Mili Avital; Ziggy Pzoniak: Daniel Lapaine; Roman: Rade Serbedzija. No MPAA rating. Running time -- 100 minutes. Color/stereo.
- 1/20/1998
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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