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Review: Alien: Covenant (2017)
There’s a reason ALIEN: COVENANT re-adopts the parent franchise title. PROMETHEUS seemed stuck in an identity crisis, whereas Covenant is proudly a proper Alien movie. You’ll get everything you expect and then some from Ridley Scott’s real return to marshaling … Continue reading
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Tagged Alien, Alien: Covenant, Danny McBride, Guy Pearce, Horror, Katherine Waterston, Michael Fassbender, Prometheus, Ridley Scott, Sci-fi
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Series Retrospective: Scott-directed Aliens
Just in time(ish) for the release of ALIEN: COVENANT, I thought I’d look back at Ridley Scott’s two previous encounters with Xenomorphs, Engineers and Last Women Standing. ALIEN (1979) It’s sometimes hard to believe that this was only Ridley Scott’s … Continue reading
Review: The Martian (2015)
Almost Ridders, almost. This is undoubtedly the best thing Ridley Scott has produced in over a decade. For me though, THE MARTIAN doesn’t quite justify the plaudits it has received, but yeah it’s good. That’s pretty much it. You want … Continue reading
10 Years, 10 Spectacular Sci-fi Films (2005-2014)
Science fiction has become a film genre increasingly derivative and dispiritingly inconsistent in quality in recent years. 2012’s TOTAL RECALL was a terrible remake and PROMETHEUS was arguably guilty of cheapening its own source material, the ALIEN series, by existing … Continue reading
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Tagged Alex Garland, Alfonso Cuarón, Alien, Alive in Joberg, Andy Serkis, Aubrey Plaza, Ben Burtt, Bong Joon-ho, Children of Men, Christopher Nolan, Clive Owen, Colin Trevorrow, Conquest of the Planet of the Apes, Danny Boyle, Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, District 9, Film, Firefly, Fox, Inception, Interstellar, Joss Whedon, Jurassic World, Looper, Mad Max, Mark Duplass, Movies, Neill Blomkamp, Pixar, Predestination, Prometheus, Rise of the Planet of the Apes, Safety Not Guaranteed, Sarah Snook, Sci-fi, Serenity, Sharlto Copley, Snowpiercer, Spierig Brothers, Sunshine, Total Recall, WALL-E
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The (Very Very Belated) Worst Films of 2013 List
I tend to be pretty selective in the films I choose to watch. I’m not one of those guys who has to see absolutely everything, and would probably never pay to see something that’s been universally panned on release. Yeah … Continue reading
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Tagged A Good Day to Die Hard, A Haunted House, Brad Pitt, Bruce Willis, Bryan Singer, Film, G.I. JOE: Retaliation, Jack the Giant Slayer, Jai Courtney, Marlon Wayans, Movie 43, Movies, Murder-mystery, Netflix, Oblivion, Prometheus, Ridley Scott, Robin Hood, Sci-fi, Scott Walker, Sharknado, The Counsellor, The Frozen Ground, The Rock, World War Z
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SSP Thinks Film 
“The trick is not minding that it hurts” (RIP Peter O’Toole)
As you’ll no doubt have heard, Peter O’Toole died on Saturday aged 81. As so many quite rightly mourn the passing of this great actor, we also can’t deny that it’s truly quite incredible that he lived to the ripe old age he did, … Continue reading →