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Ad Astra (2019) Review

Posted on September 26, 2019 by Joseph Wade

‘The Lost City of Z’ filmmaker James Gray has teamed with Brad Pitt for ‘Ad Astra’, a space exploration film being likened to ‘Apocalypse Now’. Joseph Wade reviews.

Modern Problems Require Modern Solutions: Expectations of Star Wars Lore in the 21st Century

Posted on September 26, 2019December 2, 2019 by Jacob Davis

How expectations regarding ‘Star Wars’ lore have been cultivated and why it isn’t the end of the world that you don’t know anything about Snoke.

From Final Girls to Kickass Women – What Modern Female Protagonists Have in Common with Ellen Ripley

Posted on March 29, 2019April 14, 2019 by Guest

“Ellen Ripley stands as one of the first pages torn out of a sexist and archaic rulebook.” From Final Girls to Kickass Women – What Modern Female Protagonists Have in Common with Ellen Ripley.

Aliens (1986) Retrospective Review

Posted on March 22, 2019November 20, 2019 by Guest

In his retrospective review of James Cameron’s ‘Aliens’ (1986), Lucas Hill-Paul describes the famous sequel as “a landmark in action-horror”. Read the full piece here.

Alien (1979) Retrospective Review

Posted on March 14, 2019November 20, 2019 by Guest

Ridley Scott’s ‘Alien’ (1979) pairs “genuine, spine-tingling horror and thematic resonance” to create a classic of horror and sci-fi. Lucas Hill-Paul reviews…

Designing Nightmares: H.R. Giger and ‘Alien’

Posted on March 11, 2019April 14, 2019 by Kieran Judge

When you think of ‘Alien’, you think of Ridley Scott and the Xenomorph, but the man behind the disturbing visuals is H.R. Giger, the artist profiled by Kieran Judge in this article.

The Thing (1982) Review

Posted on March 9, 2019 by Elizabeth Howlett

John Carpenter’s The Thing is a suspense-riddled, snow-covered sci-fi horror and Kurt Russell is the fiery cherry on top of a perfectly-iced paranoia cake.