Category: Archive Review

  • Alien: Covenant (2017 review)

    Alien: Covenant (2017 review)

    4 outta 5 Director Ridley Scott straight up made a sci-fi horror masterpiece with 1979’s Alien. After staying away from the series for a few decades, his return in 2012 with Prometheus was a heady, sideways, horror-infused look at the fringes of the mythology surrounding the series.   It’s an interesting take on the Alien storyline…

  • Prometheus (2012 review)

    Prometheus (2012 review)

    4 outta 5 There’s a scene in Prometheus, Director Ridley Scott’s kinda-prequel to Alien, that involves a character and a surgical procedure that is riveting.  It recalls the shocking chest-burster scene in Alien and doesn’t quite reach that level but it gets close. That, in a nutshell, is what you would say Prometheus is.  It’s…