Foster on Film

There’s been an “accident” at a secret, isolated lab. They’ve been developing a new form of artificial human, one with emotions. Its name is Morgan (Anya Taylor-Joy), and this five-year-old that looks eighteen just stabbed one of its keepers (Jennifer Jason Leigh) in the eye. The corporate office has sent Lee (Kate Mara), a risk

Optimus Prime (voice: Peter Cullen) has left Earth to return to Cybertron where he meets an evil mother robot who turns him evil and sends him back to Earth to swipe Merlin’s staff so the planet of Cybertron can suck the life out of the Earth. Really. But forget about that as we won’t hear

It’s ten years after the close of the breach in Pacific Rim and Jake Pentecost (John Boyega), the previously unmentioned son to the first film’s stern, dead father figure, is threatened with jail or a return to the jaeger program. He chooses the latter and joins ever-squinting Nate Lambert (Scott Eastwood) in training a bunch

Another new future, another antagonistic AI, another protector sent to the past, another terminator popping up a few minutes later. The specifics this time around: Grace (Mackenzie Davis) is an “augmented” soldier from the future, sent back to protect Dani Ramos (Natalia Reyes), who will become humanity’s savior. Out to assassinate Dani is the Rev-9

A plane, carrying two unstable, intelligent, killing robots, crashes on a Pacific island.  A military team is sent in to retrieve the robots before they learn too much and become unstoppable.  To complicate matters, a gang of criminals, escaping their latest caper in a helicopter, lands on the same island. Some movies have important themes

In the near future, when American super-aircraft fly into any country in the world and blow things up on a regular basis, three TOPGUNs, Lt. Ben Gannon (Josh Lucas),  Lt. Kara Wade (Jessica Biel), and Lt. Henry Purcell (Jamie Foxx) are joined by a cutting-edge, computerized, drone plane.  On the way back from blowing up