"The 5th Wave" is very much a January release - in another words, not very good - but at least it's unusual in its awfulness. For its first half hour, the movie is interesting and alarming in the best ...

The 5th Wave is a sci-fi action-adventure film directed by J Blakeson. In a world where alien attacks have devastated Earth, a teenage girl Cassie searches for her brother. She teams up with a ...

Flashing back to the day before The Others’ arrival, “The 5th Wave” details Cassie’s calm-before-the-storm Ohio high school life, an existence full of partying with her BFF, flirting with football ...

Also based on the first in a trilogy of post-apocalyptic teen novels, this thriller feels like it could be a worthy successor to The Hunger Games saga, with its smart story and strong characters. The ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook With the conclusion of “The Hunger Games” last November and the “Divergent” series ending this ...

The 5th Wave opens with assault rifle-toting teen Cassie Sullivan (Chloë Grace Moretz) ransacking an abandoned convenience store. When she chances upon a wounded man, the pair have a paranoid standoff ...

The actors also discuss whether they know the fate of their characters in the yet-to-be-released concluding novel in the young-adult series. Chloe Moretz leads the young adult book-to-film adaptation ...

Every year a new young-adult film franchise is released, attempting to recapture the success of predecessors before – The Maze Runner and before that Divergent and before that The Hunger Games and ...

Larry Mantle and KPCC film critics Charles Solomon, Wade Major, and Lael Loewenstein will review this weekend’s new movie releases including the latest young-adult-novel-cum-dystopian-flick “The 5th ...