Writer/Director Luc Besson, with his take on the horror romance of “Dracula” with Caleb Landry Jones (who starred in his previous "Dogman"), has definitely an interesting play that is both similar and yet different from Gary Oldman and Francis Ford Coppola. It does change certain key elements and takes away certain character but doesn't suffer for it.

The aspect of castaways on a deserted island sometimes has a certain ring. But with Sam Raimi and a movie called "Send Help", there is bound to be a darker connotation. The film is obviously a rich set up for McAdams to flex her muscles in both psychological and physical ways after a plane crash provides an avenue for bad feelings avenged.

Jason Statham seems to know a little bit about playing specific heroes. In an era where there are few to take that mantle, he has found a sustainable formula while still picking specific and efficient enough scripts to make sense. His new movie "Shelter" from "Greenland" director Ric Roman Waugh is an efficient, entertaining, mid-range picture that knows what it is while still delivering a character that can function time and again.

The tenets of South Korean horror are usually good in using a setting or object to create a mythology. "Ghost Train" uses that in a similar way. What does work well is the build of this one to almost tell a Twilight Zone nature of a couple different people who have been affected by the train. It is not so much about the train itself but the station it inhabits which has its own past.

"Night Patrol" is an interesting play upon the cop/gang genre by placing it within a deeper genre context but not avoiding what the film is really about. Directed by Jordan Prows, an AFI alum, the film delves into the gangland structure of Los Angeles with a similar vengeance of something like "Training Day" but a different track.

"Primate", helmed by "Welcome To Raccoon City" director Johannes Roberts is an interesting play because of its build but also the ethical and empathetic considerations it brings into play. Its focus works on college age girls returning to Hawaii where one of their fathers is doing research on primates. The initial texture because of its setting has a "Jurassic Park" dread to it but on a much smaller scale.

Gerard Butler, like Jason Statham, but in a different way, has found a way to crash his own corner of the concept realm while still delivering box office. Seemingly "Greenland", bolstered by the pandemic, did well to allow the story to move on. "Greenland 2: Migration" is bigger in scale and obviously takes on a different locale in a way. Beginning in Greenland where the last film ended, utopia, or what the inhabitants were hoping for, doesn't turn out in the way they hoped.

From any point of view, the new "Avatar" film "Fire And Ash" is breathtaking. Granted it uses certain formulas and concepts of history but the sheer spectacle of it coupled with the fact of James Cameron's prowess in making something both immense and intimate simply invites criticism as well as praise. But that said, it is a sprawling story that does take three hours and fifteen minutes to tell and would be hard to tell shorter than that.

The essence of "Wicked" is the beauty and darkness of what we see behind the scenes of "The Wizard Of Oz". While the first "Wicked" was more about bright colors and drawing the younger audience in, "Wicked: For Good" is the more dynamic of the two. This is simply becomes the fact that despite anything, this is a story of platonic love between two women but how heartbreak can and does happen.