Punch-drunk love

MORTAL KOMBAT II

2026

Directed by Simon McQuoid

Written by Jeremy Slater (actually based, remarkably enough, more than anything else on the video game Mortal Kombat II by Ed Boon and John Tobias)

Spoilers: moderate

How to train your leviathan

THE SEA BEAST

2022

Directed by Chris Williams

Written by Nell Benjamin and Chris Williams

Spoilers: moderate (high, technically, but anybody over twelve is getting ahead of this film by the time they've seen the trailer for it)

If "the summer's best swarm of CGI" doesn't sound like a pullquote, it's because it shouldn't

STAR TREK BEYOND

Hey, let's fans just be thankful that the Star Trek brand can't actually be killed—I mean, if it could be, six bad movies in a row would probably have done it, and they never would've even made the seventh.

2016

Directed by Justin Lin

Written by Simon Pegg, Doug Jung, Roberto Orci, Patrick McKay, and John D. Payne

With Chris Pine (James T. Kirk), Zachary Quinto (Spock), Karl Urban (Dr. Leonard McCoy), Zoe Saldana (Nyota Uhura), Simon Pegg (Montgomery "Scotty" Scott), John Cho (Sulu), Anton Yelchin (Chekov), Sofia Boutella (Jayla), and Idris Elba (Krall)

Spoiler alert: mild

Acts of killing, part II

DREDD

There are 800 million stories in the naked mega-city.  This is one of the more straightforward ones.  In just about the best possible way.

2012
Directed by Pete Travis
Written by Alex Garland
With Karl Urban (J. Dredd), Olivia Thirlby (J. Anderson), Wood Harris (Kay), Langley Kirkwood (J. Lex), Domhnall Gleeson (The Clan Techie), Warrick Grier (Caleb), and Lena Headey (Ma-Ma)

Spoiler alert: severe