Curt on the movies

A depressed pilot searches for community and connection after the apocalypse in Ridley Scott’s survival thriller “The Dog Stars.”

In a quest for personal vengeance, Jason Statham uncovers a human trafficking network at sea in his latest action thriller, “Mutiny.”

A young auteur tasked with rebooting a slasher franchise becomes obsessed with casting the original film’s reclusive final girl in “Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma.

A suburban family’s domestic tranquility is threatened by marital strife, neighborhood bullies and dinosaurs in the sci-fi adventure “The End of Oak Street.”

In feudal Japan, Lord Murashige must solve the mystery of a murdered prisoner in order to keep his alliances together in the genre-defying “The Samurai and the Prisoner.”

Thorny sets out to break up the surprise engagement between his sister and the detestable Farva in “Super Troopers 3.”