Dark Horse has been telling stories within the universe of the Alien films for decades, but the property has had a major upswing in the last year after handing the reins to singular writer/artists with a distinct vision for this concept. James Stokoe’s Aliens: Dead Orbit (now available in a collected edition) was a…
Stranger Things has proven itself adept at crafting scenes of dread rich in horror and sci-fi allusions without letting its inspirations overwhelm the show’s own distinctive style. It’s managed to turn initially sketched-out characters into a portrait of early-’80s small-town life that’s believable even when…
Jurassic Park’s 1997 follow-up, The Lost World: Jurassic Park, is a polarizing movie. On one hand, it finds an excuse to put Jeff Goldblum’s Dr. Ian Malcom in the starring role; on the other, it ends with a left-turn bizarre enough to include a Tyrannosaurus stomping around SoCal, eating house pets and drinking pool…
The most widely admired science-fiction film to come out of the 1980s, Blade Runner reimagined the nocturnal, seductive, and pessimistic qualities of film noir and its ’70s derivative, neo-noir, for the paranoid cityscape of the future: a dark, rainy, multi-lingual Los Angeles where a detective in a trench coat trails…
Rick And Morty’s long-awaited third season is set to finally come out (deep breath) July 30. While most of the cause of the delay has been, according to creators Justin Roiland and Dan Harmon, because of their meticulous writing process, they’ve also kept busy with comic books, a VR game, video-game de-makes, and a…
We all know someone who’s tried Bishop’s “five-finger fillet” knife game from Aliens, wherein Lance Henriksen’s android rhythmically stabs between his (and Hudson’s) fingers without once piercing the flesh. We also all know someone who’s stabbed themselves.
Welcome to Random Roles, wherein we talk to actors about the characters who defined their careers. The catch: They don’t know beforehand what roles we’ll ask them to talk about.
Alien: Covenant is proving to be a divisive movie. Our own Ignatiy Vishnevetsky praised its embrace of pulpy Hammer horror and stately filmmaking, but many others have groaned over its return to Prometheus-style sci-fi world-building. Like that movie, though, it has a lot of individually interesting moments that…
We liked Alien: Covenant, the sixth filmic entry in Ridley Scott’s long-running story of a rascally alien species that just can’t stop finding itself in over its head on ships full of humans that don’t want them there. What ensued, at least over the course of the original quadrilogy of films, was sometimes…
Alien: Covenant has been teasing its premiere in dribs and drabs, so far offering up a trailer, a cast photo, a four-minute prologue clip, and 38 years’ worth of Alien movies and ancillary merchandise. To further stoke that anticipation, here is an egg.
Bill Paxton has died at the age of 61 from surgery complications, People reports. A statement from his family reads: “A loving husband and father, Bill began his career in Hollywood working on films in the art department and went on to have an illustrious career spanning four decades as a beloved and prolific actor…
As the director of the last unequivocally good Alien movie—come at us, AVP: Requiem fans—James Cameron’s word carries a certain weight with the monster-blasting franchise. So when he says it might be time to hang up the exoskeletons, grab your cocoon goo, and call it a day, he might possibly have a point.
What Are You Watching? is a weekly space for The A.V Club’s film critics and readers to share their thoughts, observations, and opinions on movies new and old.
Jones, the big ol’ ginger cat from Alien and Aliens, is one of the great film cats. He is large, sedate, curious, and has whiskers. As CatsOnFilm.net notes,
Last month, CineFix’s Homemade Movies series called upon the power of Grayskull for a goofy recreation of the intro for the He-Man And The Masters Of The Universe cartoon. The results that time around were respectable, but the source material wasn’t exactly very interesting to begin with. For the latest installment,…
WikiLeaks was once an important resource that exposed dangerous hypocrisy and illegal cover-ups, but lately it has transitioned into sort of an edgier, more political take on TMZ. Instead of screaming at celebrities on the street, though, WikiLeaks gets most of its information by innocently receiving hacked/leaked…
Whether one is playing a little basketball (against humans or cartoons), traveling through time, or exacting sweet revenge against one’s enemies, there is no shoe quite as versatile as the sneaker. Now, Parisian filmmaker Candice Drouet, who operates under the rather misleading banner Really Dim, has assembled an…
With A History Of Violence, Tom Breihan picks the most important action movie of every year, starting with the genre’s birth and moving right up to whatever Vin Diesel’s doing this very minute.
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A harried Winona Ryder, ax gripped firmly in hand, is an unlikely visual representation of maternal love. And, yet, she is.
