Tag: Alien
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Predator: Badlands
4 outta 5 Predator films have been going through many installments, with the latest Predator: Badlands taking the series into the future and featuring some light crossover with the Alien franchise. It actually takes one of the meanest villains in sci-fi and makes him a likeable protagonist, which is probably helped by giving him a…
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Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem (’07 review)
3 out of 5 Out of all the “vs.” horror movie franchises, Aliens vs. Predator is one of the few monster vs. other monster series that makes sense. Godzilla vs. King Kong? Simply two big creatures from their respective countries battling it out. Freddy vs. Jason? Round pegs hammered into square holes. Alien vs. Predator…
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Alien: Romulus
4 outta 5 Alien: Romulus is a crackerjack entry in the Alien franchise that flips between knowing homages, splicing in bits of continuity, flat-out ripping off others and repeating some bits exactly. It can be sort of a “greatest hits” version of a few Alien movies all combined into one, and its willingness to take…
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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…
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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…
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