The 5th Wave is here. In this week's of The Mothership, USA TODAY's weekly nerdy podcast, Kelly Lawler (@klawls), Brett Molina (@brettmolina23), Carly Mallenbaum (@ThatGirlCarly) and Brian Truitt (@briantruitt) talk the latest YA dystopian flick, which The 5th Wave is here. In this week's of The Mothership, USA TODAY's weekly nerdy podcast, Kelly Lawler (@klawls), … Read more
“I miss the Cassie I was,” laments the Cassie that is at the start of The 5th Wave. The present Cassie (Chloë Grace Moretz) has just killed someone (Matthew Zuk), identified only as “Wounded Man with Crucifix”. This young man appears in Cassie's “I miss the Cassie I was,” laments the Cassie that is at … Read more
The second wave has a version of the bird flu virus killing a large part of the population. I forget the other two waves, but the 5th has aliens taking over human bodies and trying various tricks to kill the few human survivors on the planet. I was The second wave has a version of … Read more
Even before the storm, all three of the biggest new releases this weekend—the Robert De Niro/Zac Efron road trip comedy Dirty Grandpa, the young adult sci-fi invasion yarn The 5th Wave, and the doll-centric horror tale The Boy—were tracking around Oh yes, there are another two books in author Rick Yancey's 5th Wave sequence. To … Read more
Unisex boot-camp adolescent training scenes where boy/girl one-on-one martial arts is the abstinence equivalent of sex? Check. Well, this one starts in a lively way, and the natural disaster scenes of giant waves crashing over buildings are pretty Even before the storm, all three of the biggest new releases this weekend—the Robert De Niro/Zac Efron … Read more
"The 5th Wave": A young woman attempts to save her brother after four waves of increasingly deadly attacks have left most of Earth destroyed. With: Chloe Grace Moretz, Nick Robinson and Maggie Siff. (1:52) Rated PG-13 for violence, destruction, some It's clear that “The 5th Wave” (based on the first novel in a trilogy by … Read more
This photo provided by Sony Pictures Entertainment shows, Nick Robinson as Ben Parish in a scene from the Columbia Pictures release, "The 5th Wave." The movie opens in U.S. theaters on Jan. 22, 2016. (Chuck Zlotnick/Sony/Columbia Pictures via AP). Unisex boot-camp adolescent training scenes where boy/girl one-on-one martial arts is the abstinence equivalent of sex? … Read more