Tag: Prometheus

  • Alien: Romulus

    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…

  • 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…