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Alien: Covenant spins the wheels of franchise necessity. But it does it well.

May 18, 2025 by Christopher ZF Leave a Comment

A superior, if common, studio franchise effort

Filed Under: Featured, Movies, Reviews Tagged With: Alien, Alien Covenant, Prometheus, Ridley Scott

The new Alien: Covenant poster looks great. Let’s hope the movie is too.

March 23, 2025 by Christopher ZF Leave a Comment

In the struggle for survival, the monsters always come out on top.

Filed Under: Featured, Movies Tagged With: Alien, Alien Covenant, Ridley Scott

Ridley Scott’s 10 “Best” Films

September 29, 2025 by Christopher ZF Leave a Comment

This is hard because, honestly, I don’t really like Ridley Scott.

Filed Under: Featured, Movies Tagged With: Alien, Blade Runner, Gladiator, Prometheus, Ridley Scott, SIgourney Weaver, The Martian

Neill Blomkamp will direct a new Alien movie

February 19, 2025 by Andrew DeYoung 2 Comments

Promising news for fans of the franchise.

Filed Under: Movies Tagged With: Alien, Neil Blomkamp

The Stake Podcast Episode 8: The Horror! The Horror!

October 15, 2025 by thestakemag Leave a Comment

What you should watch this Halloween Viewing Season

Filed Under: Stake Podcast Tagged With: 28 Days Later, Alfred Hitchcock, Alien, Evil Dead, Halloween, Horror, horror movies, Jaws, Psycho, Roman Polanski, Rosemary's Baby, scary movies, Stephen King, Wes Craven

An annotated walk through the films of David Fincher

October 2, 2025 by Christopher ZF 1 Comment

Hollywood’s iciest auteur has a new film that is likely to be as divisive as his entire body of work.

Filed Under: Movies Tagged With: Alien, Brad Pitt, David Fincher, Fight Club, Gone Girl, Seven, Stanley Kubrick, The Game, Zodiac

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