The instant Ripley (Sigourney Weaver) steps into the power loader, Aliens stops being a survival story and becomes something else entirely. The room goes quiet except for the hum of machinery. Then ...

Here’s the thing those trailers didn’t tell you: Predator: Badlands is absolutely chock-full of synths. Not only do we get Fanning as Thia (a bisected robot who offers to help the film’s Predator ...