Things that brought me delight in April, 2026:Predator: BadlandsPredator: Badlands was way more fun than I was anticipating. This definitely isn't Predator in the horror sense; this is very much an action-oriented sci-fi romp. In fact, I'd hazard to say that Predator: Badlands is more successful at being what modern Star Wars wants to be, but can't because of the burden of franchise it has to carry. The formula does work though: a runty predator teams up with a damaged android and a cute lil guy to push back against the corporate malfeasance of Weyland-Yutani. See why this feels like a better Star Wars? There's a cute lil guy! Anyway, the final line of this movie was laugh out loud funny. Ava Reid, InnamorataI can see why the booktokkers and romantasy girls were absolutely tilted by Ava Reid's Innamorata. I've read Reid before--her dark academia A Study in Drowning, her folk-fantasy Juniper & Thorn, and her fantasy-inflected Lady Macbeth, but Innamorata is a different beast…
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