A while back, while aimlessly wandering the internet, I came across this impossibly gorgeous Alien poster. I originally found it on Rekall, a site devoted to awesome retro technology and sci-fi stuff, but the poster sadly came without any indication of who the brilliant SOB who created it was. Then, earlier today, I found out: …
Predator: Life and Death isn’t exactly reinventing the wheel, here. (A group of trigger-happy, battle-hardened military types touching down on a far-off planet, totally unprepared for the alien predators they’ll find lurking there? You’d be forgive if you feel like you’ve seen this movie once or twice or six times.) But I’m encouraged by the total competence with which this creative team checks all the boxes of a good Predator adventure. And with three issues left in this arc–and with sixteen parts left in Dark Horse’s new Xenoverse story cycle–there’s plenty of time left to stop checking boxes and do something outside the box.
We all know how the famous tagline goes: in space, no one can hear you scream. But in reality, the truth is a little more terrifying: in space, you literally can’t scream.
Still in the spotlight of his science nerd-out, The Martian, Ridley Scott has revealed the title to the sequel of his Alien prequel, Prometheus, which will be entitled Alien: Paradise Lost. Yay or Nay? In narrative terms, it seems as if Scott is still interested in exploring the storylines leading up to his sci-fi classic, …
If you’re an action hero, pulling off daring rescues and badass escapes is just another day at the office. The rescue has been the prototypical action scene since humans have been able to put pen to paper. From Tarzan swinging in on a vine to Iron Man flying in on his jets, a hero isn’t …
Upon its release in 2008, there was little to indicate that the original Dead Space would be anything other than a limp trudge through stock horror. After all, it hailed from the development studio EA Redwood, a team at the time best known for releasing a succession of deeply ordinary takes on the cash cow …
New Projects is a weekly round up of movies and TV shows recently announced and currently in development for the near future. To be honest, I was a little skeptical of the news last week that Neill Blomkamp would be helming an Alien remake. Elysium was a bust, the jury is still out on Chappie, …
What is it about the Alien franchise that has made it so enduring? Ripley’s a hell of a female character for sure, but then the undying terror of a faceless, yet iconic monster only bent on destruction is also a good enough catalyst that everyone from Ridley Scott to James Cameron to David Fincher to …
Predator Vs Judge Dredd Vs Aliens: Incubus and Other Stories Writer(s): John Wagner, Andy Diggle Art: Henry Flint, Enrique Alcatena, Brian Bolland, Jock Publisher: 2000AD/Dark Horse Comics Purchase: https://www.darkhorse.com/Books/25-337/Predator-versus-Judge-Dredd-versus-Aliens-HC In space, as the old saying goes, no one can hear you scream. The same can also be said for Mega City One. Just in time …
John Carpenter has produced an impressive body of work as a composer, director, producer, editor, and occasionally as a scriptwriter. He was a lifelong fan of science fiction novels, horror comic books, and classic westerns, he has managed to integrate thematic elements of all of these things into his work. Even though he’s experienced financial …
It would have been thrilling to have been around in the 70s to witness those foreboding billboards for The Exorcist, or the disconcerting adverts for Alien, at a time when a sense of ‘the other’ was probably more acute. Let’s face it, movie posters constitute some of the most iconic art works of our times; …
Humankind’s collision with otherworldly life forms can make for unforgettable cinema. This article will highlight the best of live-action human vs. alien films. The creatures may be from other planets or may be non-demonic entities from other dimensions. Excluded from consideration were giant monster films as the diakaiju genre would make a great subject for …
The new children’s film, Earth to Echo, wants to be a Millennial version of E.T., but it sacrifices emotion in favor of realism. The end result is a one-dimensional robot that will disappoint younger children, and a repetitive action story that will bore older kids. Its heart may be in the right place but there’s just not enough imagination or excitement to clear this movie for launch.
It’s a classic chapter of Hollywood lore, one of those great cautionary tales of executive mismanagement and shattered dreams but Alien 3’s production also brought a solid and respectable sequel butchered in post, one that can be found in the rough and tumble Assembly Cut.
The concept of the sci-fi horror genre allows us to address the built-in terrors and tensions developed in society that are difficult, if not impossible, to actualize and confront directly. It has the strengths of sci-fi’s ability to question our potential as a developed species, breaking current conceptions of reality to attain a scenario that …
Station to Station Written by Corinna Bechko and Gabriel Hardman Art by Gabriel Hardman Published by Dark Horse From Corina Bechko and Gabriel Hardman comes Station to Station, an ambitious if slightly overstuffed piece of sci fi action. Collecting a story originally printed in Dark Horse Presents #19-21, Station to Station opens with a mysterious …
If you flashback to the early 00’s, there was still a sense of excitement and anticipation at the announcement of Ridley Scott working on a new project. This was a visionary director who’s expansive, ambitious and heart capturing visual eye had given the world of cinema such wonders as Alien and Blade Runner, masterpieces of …
So I’d gone over to my cousin’s house to see his new puppy and, as he and I are often wont to do, we got to talking about movies and TV and the like. The conversation drifted around to movies we liked but our kids didn’t. “I have Blazing Saddles (1974),” he said, nodding at …
Shot using multiple unmanned digital cameras on an Atlantic Ocean fishing trawler, Leviathan plunges us directly into the ship’s chaotic machinery, revealing a dissonant, alien world. The latest collaborative work from anthropologists and filmmakers, Lucien Castaing-Taylor and Véréna Paravel, is a profoundly original documentary and a staggering, hallucinatory piece of cinema. There is no narration and no interviews; from the outset, we are thrust unaided and disorientated into the cacophony, bombarded with anarchic point-of-view shots and haunting, discordant sounds.
Consider this an offer you shouldn’t refuse. The nationwide Cinemark movie theater chain is kicking off another Classics Series tonight, April 10, with one of the all-time classics, a film whose iconography is endless: 1972’s The Godfather. Cinemark will also be showing such films as Alien, Blazing Saddles, and The Graduate over the next five …
Anybody who has ever been to a high school reunion (and I’ve been to my share) will tell you that the calendar and the clock can be incredibly cruel (particularly when combined with the long-term effects of gravity, but let’s not go there). Time punishes creative works as well. Some work grows dated, stale, stiff. …
Grabbers Directed by Jon Wright Written by Kevin Lehane Ireland, 2012 For a movie about aliens, Grabbers feels all-too-familiar. Reaching as far back as Ridley Scott’s Alien, Grabbers is a perfectly serviceable and well-cultivated collection of creature features, but, despite its earnest convictions, it lacks a certain novelty to garner any postmortem traction. The movie …
