Director – Ridley Scott – 2012 – US – Cert.15 – 124m ***** UK release date 02/06/2012. Western social attitudes to women have come a long way since Ripley (Sigourney Weaver) gratuitously stripped down to her underwear prior to fending off the malevolent creature in the finale of Ridley Scott’s seminal sci-fi shocker Alien (1979), […]
Director – Alexandre O. Philippe – 2019 – US – Cert. 15 – 95m **** 1/2 A detailed examination of the ideas and personalities behind Dan O’Bannon, H.R.Giger and Ridley Scott’s classic 1979 SF shocker Alien – in cinemas on Friday, August 30th 2019, and then on VoD the following Monday, September 2nd 2019 When […]
Director – Ridley Scott – 2017 – US – 15 – 122m *** 1/2 The latest Alien franchise entry is an effective horror sci-fi, teeming with shocks, scares and twists, but it lacks the mythological depth of Prometheus and the twisted sexual connotations of Alien – in cinemas on 12th May 2017 This is Ridley […]