I’ve had a rather strange relationship with the Alien franchise. It’s taken me forever and a day to finally catch up on them (I watched the original only two years ago) and have essentially spent the last 21 years hearing…
Directors of Cinema- Episode 19: Ridley Scott
Welcome back and thank you for sticking around as this marks the long awaited return of Directors of Cinema, the podcast that highlights the careers of cinema’s most prominent directors. Each week, host Matthew Goudreau and a guest discuss selected works of…
Movie Review: Alien Covenant
There are effectively three films inside of Alien: Covenant, and each appeal to someone in it’s audience: A spiritual successor to Alien, a sequel to Prometheus, and a basic contemporary sci-fi horror movie. Each piece is successful on it’s own,…
8 Things You Didn’t Know About the ALIEN Series
I got some things to share with you about a particularly favorite movie series of mine, Alien. Specifically, 8 things. More specifically, 8 things you may or may not have know about the production of Alien, from the 1979 original to Alien Covenant, and if you did, congrats you’re just as much as , if not more of a fan, than me.
Much like other science fiction franchise movie series’, I have a love hate relationship with Alien. What is amazing, is truly just that. The stuff that isn’t, turns the series into campy schlock. But at the end of the day, it’s enjoyable schlock.I also like that, whether the results are good or bad, the Alien franchise isn’t strictly horror.