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Movie Review: ‘Alien: Covenant’ – Ripley’s Believe It Or Not
What Ridley Scott’s new film 'Alien: Covenant' sorely needs more than anything is another Ripley, or better yet, the original (Sigourney Weaver).
Read More »SXSW World Premiere: ‘Life,’ starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Ryan Reynolds
Daniel Espinosa's film combines elements of 'Alien' and 'Gravity' to create a satisfyingly suspenseful sci-fi thriller.
Read More »SXSW Film Review: Ridley Scott Brings ‘Alien Covenant’ to Festival
SXSW continued a tradition of treating fans to classic films and their creators with the screening of Alien and a preview of Ridley Scott’s new film, 'Alien: Covenant.'
Read More »Film Fans Rank Ripley, Buffy in Movie and TV Character Top 10s
But they're the only two female characters 'Empire' readers voted into their Top 10 character lists.
Read More »Movie Review: ‘Dark Star: H.R. Giger’s World’ – ‘Alien’ and a Ticket for a Tat
If you were at the NuArt Theater in Los Angeles on May 15 or 16, you could have gotten a ticket for a tat. If that tattoo was based on the work of H.R. Giger, that is, and you wanted to see the premiere of 'Dark Star: H.R. Giger’s World.' H.R. Giger was a relatively obscure surrealist artist until 1979 when the world saw his design work in Ridley Scott’s 'Alien'. From that moment, the world of science fiction and horror, rock music album covers, punk and goth culture, and tattoos and fetish art was changed forever.
Read More »Flash Fiction: Nothing to Kill or Die For
A young girl meets a masked boy at a political rally in Manhattan and agrees to go home with him to hang out, only to be surprised that he lives in a luxurious apartment overlooking Central Park (Title comes from a line in Lennon's song "Imagine." This is part of the first chapter of an in-progress YA novel).
Read More »Xbox 360 Review: ‘Alien: Isolation’ from Creative Assembly Delivers Genuine Scares
With its authentic presentation and surprisingly good corporate conspiracy story, 'Alien: Isolation' sets the foundation for what a proper game in the series would look like, even if it doesn’t always score high marks.
Read More »Book Review: The Burn Zone by James K. Decker
James K. Decker's The Burn Zone is the best damned science fiction book this reviewer has read in quite some time.
Read More »Movie Review: Prometheus (2012)
Ridley Scott heads back to the franchise that made him famous, but does Prometheus live up to the hype?
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