Here’s the thing those trailers didn’t tell you: Predator: Badlands is absolutely chock-full of synths. Not only do we get Fanning as Thia (a bisected robot who offers to help the film’s Predator ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover Hollywood and entertainment. Per the film’s official summary, Predator: Badlands “is set in the future on a remote planet, ...

Here we are, 35 years after the release of a film that dared to take the ultimate alien hunter out of the Central American jungle and drop him into the concrete jungle of Los Angeles, a city in the ...

Predator: Badlands takes a page from Alien vs. Predator in more ways than one. Although the Alien franchise has essentially removed the AVP films from its continuity, the Predator franchise has ...

Predator: Badlands revolved around a young Yautja, Dek, reluctantly teaming up with Thia, a damaged Weyland-Yutani synthetic android. That alone is a fairly significant link to the Alien franchise, ...