The Meg

While exploring the deepest part of the Pacific Ocean, a team of scientists encounters a massive creature that attacks their submersible and causes it to lose contact with the surface base. Jonas Taylor (Statham), a man who previously encountered something similar in the ocean's depths, is summoned to help stage a daring rescue operation, but when the mission goes awry, a prehistoric predator that's been trapped in the deep for millions of years is let loose, making its way to the surface and hungering to take a bite out of a planet that hasn't seen a predator of its monstrous size in a very, very long time.

Director: Jon Turteltaub. Stars: Jason Statham, Rainn Wilson, Bingbing Li, Cliff Curtis, Winston Chao, Shuya Sophia Cai, Ruby Rose. 2018. 113 min. Action.

Alpha

A prehistoric hunting expedition ends in disaster when adolescent boy Keda (Smit-McPhee) is knocked off a cliff by a stampeding herd of bison. Left for dead by his tribe, the boy struggles to make his way back to his village despite his injuries, and when he's attacked by a pack of wolves, he succeeds in fighting them off, injuring one of the animals in the process. He takes pity on the wolf and nurses it back to health, forming a bond between species that changes the course of both of their lives.

Director: Albert Hughes. Stars: Kodi Smit-McPhee, Jóhannes Haukur Jóhannesson, Marcin Kowalczyk. 2018. 96 min. Adventure.

Mile 22

When foreign police officer Li Noor (Uwais) offers the United States important information in exchange for passage out of his country, elite special agent James Silva (Wahlberg) is sent to Indonesia to collect him. With deadly enemy agents willing to do anything to prevent Noor from escaping the country with the information that he holds, the bodies begin to pile up as Silva fights his way through the city streets, determined to get his charge to an airstrip 22 miles away, no matter the cost.

Director: Peter Berg. Stars: Mark Wahlberg, Lauren Cohan, Iko Uwais, John Malkovich, Ronda Rousey, Sam Medina. 2018. 94 min. Action.