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New Alien Movie From Fede Alvarez Ramps Up
The Aliens are back…again. Deadline exclusively reports that Fede Alvarez’s new Alien movie is gaining traction at 20th Century Studios (which, as with about 80% of movie studios nowadays, means Disney), and Cailee Spaeny is in talks to play the lead role. Alvarez is the writer of the Evil Dead ...
Read MoreThe Feminine and the Final Girl
One of horror cinema’s most enduring tropes is the final girl. The final girl is the last surviving female character who must face the killer or creature in the film’s climax. It’s a celebrated element of scary movies, particularly in – but not limited to – the slasher subgenre, so much so...
Read MoreIcon of Geekdom Ian Holm Passes Away at 88
This morning news broke that Sir Ian Holm has passed away. Variety reports that he died in the hospital from complications related to Parkinson’s disease. Although he may be most known as Bilbo Baggins in the Lord of the Rings films and The Hobbit’s framing device, he had a long and varied caree...
Read MoreSigourney Weaver Has Read the Treatment for Alien 5
Ellen Ripley is done fighting aliens. In a recent interview with Empire Online, franchise star Sigourney Weaver stated that producer Walter Hill has sent her a 50-page story treatment for a fifth Alien movie following director Neil Blomkamp’s departure. However, Weaver doesn’t believe that the...
Read MoreAlita: Fox’s Last Stand
I had been looking forward to Alita: Battle Angel for several years. I remember an article from 13 years ago where James Cameron discussed his two epic sci-fi trilogies that he was planning as his comeback to narrative filmmaking, having spent the better part of a decade developing moviemaking techn...
Read MoreWhat I’ve Been Playing – Alien: Isolation
1979’s Alien was a landmark horror film, as well as one of the films that launched Ridley Scott into director super stardom. With a tense atmosphere, a great lead performance from Sigourney Weaver, and one of the most iconic movie monsters in film history, Alien was an instant classic. The p...
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