“A Quiet Place Part II” (now available for home viewing) is more like episode two of a TV series than a movie sequel. Writer-director-actor John
Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child’s “Bloodless” (August, hardcover) explores their love and fascination with Savannah, a town architecturally trapped in time. But too many words
Cool concepts aren’t enough anymore. “La Brea,” which premiered Tuesday on NBC, has a pretty good one: A sinkhole opens at the titular tar pits
With “State of Fear” (2004), Michael Crichton takes the opposite of his usual approach. Usually he peppers research into an action-adventure. Here he grafts action-adventure
In “Jurassic Park” (1990), Michael Crichton shows that bringing back dinosaurs is a scary proposition. But how hard is that? Dinosaurs were already scary. “Prey”
After “Jurassic Park” (1993), Hollywood wanted to get back into the Michael Crichton business. The first big-budget sci-fi title after that, the long in-development “Congo”
“Reminiscence” (theaters and HBO Max) imagines a future where the coasts are being drowned by rising sea levels. It’s supposed to be foreboding, but it’s
Writer-director Michael Crichton and star Tom Selleck perhaps felt silly when “Runaway” (1984) came out on the heels of “The Terminator” and immediately felt dated.
On a kick of Wachowski movies, I notice their running theme of systems or rulers oppressing common or poor folk. That’s again the case in
The house of cards that is “Roswell, New Mexico” (Mondays, CW) collapses in the Season 3 premiere, “Hands.” The series showed potential from the beginning