A Quiet Place: Day One (2024)

Given the first and second movie told us everything we needed to know about the marauding monsters with hypersonic hearing - from their arrival on earth (via comets, I think) to their being bested by high-pitched sound - an additional entry into the series like this - this is number three, a prequel - serves no real purpose except to extrapolate, for fanboys maybe, on established themes, so we see more heel-to-toe quiet walking, more alien stampedes, more held breath and bridges taken out by fighter jets; an impossibly well-behaved service cat doesn't mix things up very much in this dutiful extra ninety minutes.

★★★☆☆

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Howard The Duck (1986)

As with the more recent Ted and Ted 2, the basic tenet of Executive Producer George Lucas' infamous box office bomb seems to be that a furry or fluffy creature doing human adult things like smoking cigars, drinking beer, and bar brawling is funny, but this Marvel comic-inspired movie about a 3 foot 2 inch and - except for his pink skin eyelids - frozen-faced duck alien who somehow ends up trapped in Cleveland, is so mundane that a more suitable title would have been Howard The Turkey or HowAwful The Duck.

☆☆☆☆☆

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