The Silence of the Lambs (1991) was by no means the first Hollywood entertainment made out of serial killers, but its critical and commercial success did stimulate an unprecedented wave of similar and derivative works that barreled along for close to … Continue reading REVIEW: Copycat (1995)
200 years after her death of Fury-161 Ellen Ripley (Sigourney Weaver) is cloned by the United Systems Military so that they can extract the developing Alien queen inside her chest. When the USM experiments fail, and Aliens break out across … Continue reading REVIEW: Alien Resurrection (1997)
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)
The thing about ‘coming of age’ stories is that there are just so damn many of them, and they all seem too damned twee for their own good. Young people seem to be travelling to big cities all the time, … Continue reading REVIEW: My Salinger Year (2020)
According to the diary of actor Ralph Brown, who played the role of Aaron in the film Alien³, there was a message carved into a wall at London’s Pinewood studios. It purported to list the six stages of film production, … Continue reading “Ripples in the water” | Alien³ (1992)
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