Early next month, 20th Century Studios (nee 20th Century Fox) will bring the latest entry in its seemingly never-ending Alien franchise to physical media when it releases Alien: Romulus. The franchise’s ninth (yes ninth) entry and its first since 2017’s Alien: Covenant, this nearly 2-hour movie (due out Dec. 3 on 4K, Blu-ray and DVD) is neither the best nor the worst of […]
More than 40 years ago, 20th Century Studios (nee 20th Century Fox) and director Ridley Scott changed the face of both horror and science fiction when they released the groundbreaking movie, Aliens. The movie brought the genres together and took them in a direction that even the science fiction flicks of the 1950s could ever imagine going, in […]
Beings from other worlds have been fodder for so much cinematic fare ever since the advent of the motion picture. From the earliest days of cinema, humans’ attention has constantly been on the stars as “the final frontier.” Yet for the past half century or so, that attention has turned just as much to Earth’s […]
Artificial intelligence has been at the fore of the major new outlets’ headlines quite a bit this year thanks to strikes held by the Writers Guild of America and the Screen Actor’s Guild. That is because writers and actors alike have focused on the potential of AI to replace them on and off screen. The […]
The countdown is officially on once again to the start of the annual holiday season. Whether people want to admit it or not, Halloween is the start of said time of year, not Thanksgiving. Now having gotten that out of the way, the annual season of scares (this critic really should copyright that term if […]
When 20th Century Studios’ Avatar: The Way of Water made its theatrical debut late last year, it was one of the most anticipated movies in many years, and audiences showed their reaction in a big way. The movie set a new record for ticket sales and went on to earn multiple awards, earning more than $2 billion in ticket […]
