This is a reprint of an older review from The Angriest. For a much more comprehensive view on Alien 3 you can check out the full 10,000 word essay on this website. An onboard incident causes the colonial military vessel Sulaco to eject its … Continue reading REVIEW: Alien³ (1992)
Decades after she escaped the alien and bedded down in hypersleep, the Nostromo’s flight officer Ellen Ripley (Sigourney Weaver) is recovered and returned to Earth. At first nobody believes her story of a crashed alien spacecraft on the planet LV-426, … Continue reading REVIEW: Aliens (1986)
A commercial spaceship is on its way back to Earth when its journey is interrupted by an unknown signal emanating from a nearby planet. The crew is revived from hyper-sleep to investigate. On the planet LV-426 they discover a mysterious … Continue reading REVIEW: Alien (1979)
In the long history of novels being adapted into films, it seems a certainly that people have always spoken of ‘unfilmable’ books. Of course they are usually only considered unfilmable until an enterprising production team actually films them, as was … Continue reading REVIEW: Dune (2021)
“In the Name of Honor” At the end of its seven-episode run it is now possible to take one step back and consider The Book of Boba Fett as a whole. I do not think it is controversial to note … Continue reading TV REVIEW: The Book of Boba Fett 1.7
The long-running partnership of director Roland Emmerich and producer Dean Devlin practically invented its own sub-genre of wildly destructive, crowd-pleasing, and terribly written global disaster movies. After making the likes of Independence Day, Stargate, and Godzilla, that partnership split. Emmerich continued to hone … Continue reading REVIEW: Geostorm (2017)
“From the Desert Comes a Stranger” So whatever is the point of The Book of Boba Fett? Purported to be a spin-off of The Mandalorian, it has effectively transformed itself over two episodes into simply being more of it. This … Continue reading TV REVIEW: The Book of Boba Fett 1.6
For fans of old Japanese science fiction films, this truly seems like a golden age. Countless archive works, never before given their due in international markets, are finding themselves available in restored editions with English subtitles – in many cases … Continue reading REVIEW: Battle in Outer Space (1959)
Well here is the weirdest episode of The Book of Boba Fett thus far. It sees the Mandalorian Din Djarin (Pedro Pascal) collect on a bounty before reuniting with his clan members, and travelling to Tatooine to collect a new … Continue reading TV REVIEW: The Book of Boba Fett 1.5
Koji Shima was a prolific director of Japanese cinema, as well as an accomplished actor. In a career that spanned from 1925 to 1970, Shima was reported to have acted in 90 films and directed 90 more. He never became … Continue reading REVIEW: Warning from Space (1956)
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