Pacific Rim

Pacific Rim

In Pacific Rim (2013), the Kaiju arise from The Breach, a crevice in the Pacific Ocean, and lay waste to coastal cities like San Francisco and Tokyo. Nobody knows who they are or where they came from or what they want (and neither does the audience by time the credits roll), but everyone realizes that this isn’t pest control—this is extermination…

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Arrival

Arrival

Arrival because it’s a film that explores human response to the unknown. The difference here is that the proverbial “elephant in the room” is the arrival of an alien species known as heptapods…

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