1 week ago Predators review – grimly compelling look at reality TV revenge hunt for child abusers

David Osit’s documentary takes a disturbing look at the televised shaming served up by the hit show To Catch a PredatorIt’s too soon to know for sure, but this may end up being ranked as one of the best nonfiction films of the year. At least let’s hope lots of people get to see this, even if it’s a mistake because they meant to buy a ticket for Predator: Badlands. Instead of an alien hunter with gnarly teeth, this offers a profoundly troubling meditation on our collective thirst for revenge – or at least the kind of bizarre performance art version of revenge as served up by reality TV show To Catch a Predator, a US series that ran from 2004 to 2007 and which featured weekly footage of paedophiles and would-be paedophiles being duped, shamed and arrested.Predators’ director David Osit, at first just an offscreen voice but eventually a fully seen (in every sense) presence, explains that he used to watch To Catch a Predator avidly as a young man. Every episode was roughly the same: a m...

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2 w. ago Predator: Badlands tops box office with impressive worldwide opening weekend

New sci-fi blockbuster has topped the North American box office with a $40 million debut, according to studio estimates

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2 w. ago 'Predator: Badlands' tops box office with $80 million worldwide

"Predator: Badlands" has topped the North American box office with a $40 million debut, according to studio estimates

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2 w. ago 'Predator: Badlands' sticks its 2 stars together to take the franchise to new places

The seventh “Predator” film takes the franchise to new places by sticking its two stars together

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3 w. ago Predator: Badlands review – a pointless but unkillable franchise that has started to eat itself

The toothy villain is humanised and made sympathetic in this disappointing horror sci-fi – at which point it ceases to be the Predator There is disappointment in store for those hoping the Terrence Malick classic Badlands had been rebooted as a horror sci-fi, with Martin Sheen and Sissy Spacek menaced by a great big space alien with a peculiar mouth. No: this is actually the umpteenth iteration of the Predator franchise, which has a roach-like unkillability itself, having started in 1987 with Arnold Schwarzenegger facing an extraterrestrial creature rustling and snarling in the Central American jungle.Predator: Badlands is just about kept from flatlining by Elle Fanning’s effortless charm, though it shows what happens when the Predator in question must, in the service of narrative development, be humanised and made sympathetic and vulnerable and kinda nice? What happens is that it ceases to be the Predator, so something or someone else has inevitably to fill the Predator role. Conti...

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3 w. ago ‘I want to try it all’, says Elle Fanning on role in Predator: Badlands

Elle Fanning, who began acting as a young child, said she has always wanted to explore every genre as an actress.

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4 w. ago Elle Fanning’s Moto Moment in Coach for 'Predator: Badlands'

Elle Fanning’s Moto Moment in Coach for 'Predator: Badlands'  Red Carpet Fashion Awards

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4 w. ago Elle Fanning Wore Coach To The ‘Predator: Badlands’ London Screening

Elle Fanning Wore Coach To The ‘Predator: Badlands’ London Screening  Yahoo

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