By TREVOR HOGG Images courtesy of Apple TV. The sheer scale of the kaiju makes dinosaurs seem tiny in comparison, and Season 2 of Monarch: Legacy of Monsters ups the ante on creature mayhem. Every frame emphasizes the creatures’ immense size, especially when human characters interact with CG monsters as towering as skyscrapers.   Monarch research [...]

By CHRIS McGOWAN Images courtesy of Amazon MGM Studios. In 2029 Los Angeles, LAPD detective Christopher Raven (Chris Pratt) is accused of murdering his wife and must prove his innocence to an artificial intelligence judge while confined to a chair in Mercy Capital Court. For his defense, AI Judge Maddox (Rebecca Ferguson) grants him access [...]

By TREVOR HOGG Images courtesy of Wētā FX and 20th Century Studios. It’s equally scary, amusing and satisfying to discover that the Yautja – the extraterrestrial hunter at the heart of Predator: Badlands – could rise to leading-man status and make audiences swoon. The challenge was to avoid parodying the iconic alien species. “You’ve got [...]

By TREVOR HOGG Images courtesy of Netflix. A village is digitally integrated into the mist-covered landscape. With Liam Hemsworth stepping into the role of Geralt of Rivia, The Witcher Season 4 expands its world with more monstrous creatures, epic battles and ambitious visual effects. Sara Bennett oversaw the season’s visual effects in post-production, a process [...]

By TREVOR HOGG Images courtesy of Lucasfilm. Star Wars: Visions Volume 3 comes full circle as the animated anthology returns to the Japanese anime studios behind the first season, with three of its nine shorts continuing earlier stories. The new chapters revisit the Ronin, R5-D56, F, Lulu and Lah Kara in The Duel: Payback, The [...]