Well, here we are. After walking this Earth for thirty-something years having never seen (or even heard all that much about) a single ALIEN movie, I’ve finally come to the last one in my watch-through, 2017’s Alien: Covenant. Maybe the future will give us more ALIEN movies — and if so, you can rest assured I’ll […]
Friends, I’ve done it. I’ve watched my way through two decades worth of ALIEN movies (it’s not that impressive; there’s only four) and have caught up to the modern prequels. Time to see what exactly was so compelling about this premise that Ridley Scott felt the need to revisit it 33 years after making the original. […]
So we’ve come to the last Alien movie in the chronology. There were two more movies made after this, but they’re both prequels to the original, so as of right now, this one still stands as the final chapter in the Ripley saga. Is that because it gives the series a satisfying ending? Or is it just […]
If you missed the first two installments in this series, you can catch up here: Lauren (finally) watches: ALIEN Lauren (finally) watches: ALIENS Now that I’ve made it through the first two films in the Alien franchise, it’s time for Alien³, which carries the distinction of having the lowest rating of the series on Rotten Tomatoes. […]
Welcome back for the second installment in my journey through the Alien franchise. In case you missed part one, I’ve somehow managed to go my entire life without seeing a single Alien film, despite being born in the ’80s and loving science fiction basically from the womb. I even managed to remain mostly unspoiled. I knew a few things […]
A few years back, I was chatting with a guy I’d just met a few hours earlier at a writing conference, and he told me that he bet he could guess my favorite movie. I told him to give it a whirl — after all, most of the discussion at writing conferences is based around […]
Welcome to Five by Friday! Today marks a day that’s twenty years in the making! All three of us are enormous fans of Independence Day and alien films in general, and today Independence Day: Resurgence is finally hitting theaters in the US. The original is in common rotation in all three of our households (we tip […]