Tag: Alien
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Everything We Know About The Alien TV Show So Far
The last time “Alien” fans got a taste of some xenomorph goodness on screen was all the way back in 2017 with director Ridley Scott’s “Alien: Covenant.” The movie served as a sequel to the 2012 “Alien” prequel “Prometheus,” and was met with generally positive reviews despite underperforming at the box office. Now, the franchise is set…
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The Tournament Of Terror Results: Alien Is The Greatest Horror Franchise Ever
For the past two weeks, we have pitted the greatest horror franchises of all time against each other in /Film’s Tournament of Terrors. And they have fallen one-by-one. A few dark horses were defeated early and a few top contenders lost some very tight races (no one here saw “Halloween” going down so early). And…
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What Antlers Director Scott Cooper Borrowed From Alien, The Exorcist, And The Shining [Exclusive]
It’s a rite of passage for any horror filmmaker. If you’re making a scary movie, you could do far worse than to borrow liberally from the undisputed classics. When it came to making “Antlers,” the moody and atmospheric horror film with high ambitions of being even more than that (read Chris Evangelista’s review here), co-writer/director Scott…
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Dune review – sci-fi epic gets off to a flying start
The French-Canadian director of Blade Runner 2049 brings an astonishing visual sensibility to Frank Herbert’s ‘unfilmable’ sci-fi classicFor years, it seemed that the greatest film ever to come from Frank Herbert’s quasi-biblical 1960s sci-fi novel Dune would be a 2013 documentary about the failure to make a great film out of Herbert’s novel. In Jodorowsky’s…
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Alien Vs Final Destination – The Greatest Horror Franchise Ever [Round 3]
Welcome to the Tournament of Terrors, a /Film bracket where we argue about the greatest horror franchise of all time, and you, the readers, get to decide the winners. The rules are simple: two iconic horror movie series enter the ring, each represented by a /Film writer ready to champion them. And you — yes,…
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At 88, Tom Skerritt Finally Gets a Starring Role in ‘East of the Mountains’
In a 60-year career that’s seen him turn up in key supporting roles in hits like “Alien,” “Top Gun,” and “M*A*S*H*,” Tom Skerritt finally gets a starring role in a movie.The acclaimed actor is front-and-center in “East of the Mountains,” playing a retired heart surgeon who keeps his terminal cancer diagnosis a secret from his…
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12 Awesome Sci-Fi Movies That Never Got Sequels
Many of the greatest science fiction franchises of all-time have benefitted from multiple cinematic installments that help expand their mythologies. Not every sequel to “Star Wars,” “Star Trek,” and “Alien” is great, but few would argue that their legacies are isolated to just one film. Occasionally, a sequel is even better than the original; recent…
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‘The Last Duel’ Star Jodie Comer on Watching Herself on Screen, Working With Ridley Scott and Attending Her First Film Festival
A historical drama about two men duelling to determine the veracity of a woman’s rape in 14th century France doesn’t, at first glance, scream “feminism.”But in the deft hands of “Alien” director Ridley Scott, “Can You Ever Forgive Me?” scribe Nicole Holofcener and “Free Guy” star Jodie Comer, the woman in question — a medieval…
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Neill Blomkamp No Longer Sure He’d Direct ‘Alien 5’ If Given the Chance: ‘It’s Completely Dead’
Every once in a while, concept art from Neill Blomkamp’s unmade “Alien 5” pops up online and sends fans of the space franchise into a tizzy. The “District 9” and “Demonic” filmmaker’s involvement with a proposed fifth “Alien” movie dates back over half a decade. Blomkamp intended to create a sequel to the original “Alien”…
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The Matrix 4 Title Has Been Confirmed As The Matrix Resurrections
The movie we’ve been referring to informally as “The Matrix 4″ now has a proper title…and it might sound familiar to you if you’ve been a /Film reader since, oh, the late 2000s? Warner Bros. has announced at CinemaCon that the official title for its upcoming “Matrix” sequel will be “The Matrix Resurrections.” It has…