Dark Horse Comics launches its new Aliens series Dust to Dust next month, and we’ve got an early first-look preview of the first issue for you here; check it out… The Trono colony on LV-871 is under attack. Emergency evacuations are ordered. Evac shuttles are taking off. All twelve-year-old Maxon and his mom have to […]
Rob Liefeld compares Deadpool 2 to James Cameron’s Aliens
This past week we got our first real look at Deadpool 2 with the arrival of a new trailer for the hotly-anticipated follow-up to 2016’s blockbuster X-Men spinoff [watch it here]. Following its release, comic book writer Rob Liefeld – who co-created both Deadpool and the newly-introduced Cable – spoke to The Hollywood Reporter about […]
Cinema’s Damaged Heroine
Sarah Myles on cinema’s damaged heroine… “Badass.” As a word, it has become synonymous with determined women in movies. Why? Because that is how critics routinely describe them. “Black Widow gets extra bad-ass in this Avengers 2 trailer,” said Rob Bricken of i09. In Atomic Blonde, Charlize Theron plays “a career badass who enjoys both […]
Review: James Horner A Life In Music at the Royal Albert Hall
Sean Wilson reviews the tribute concert in memory of the late Titanic composer… It takes a special composer to stamp a singular and enduring personality over the films they score, but James Horner was that person. Tragically killed in a plane crash in 2015 Horner’s death was massive blow for the soundtrack industry, the loss […]
October Horrors 2017 Day 11 – Aliens (1986)
Aliens, 1986. Directed by James Cameron. Starring Sigourney Weaver, Michael Biehn, Lance Henriksen, Paul Reiser, Carrie Henn, and Bill Paxton. SYNOPSIS: After her warnings about the monstrous creatures that killed her crew go unheeded, Ellen Ripley, the sole survivor of the Nostromo, is recruited by the military to return to the cursed alien planet when […]
James Cameron talks Aliens 3D and The Abyss and True Lies Blu-rays
Later this month, James Cameron’s sci-fi classic Terminator 2: Judgment Day makes its return to cinemas with the release of a special 3D conversion [read our review here], and it looks like Cameron has already set his mind as to which of his films is next in line for a 3D re-release. “We haven’t proven […]
NECA’s Colonial Marine James Cameron action figure from Aliens revealed
NECA has revealed its 7 inch James Cameron action figure which imagines the filmmaker as a Colonial Marine from his 1986 sci-fi action classic Aliens. The collectible is available to pre-order now, priced at $22.99. and is expected to ship in November; take a look below… Director James Cameron joins the Aliens universe as an action […]
Sideshow’s Alien Warrior collectible statue available to pre-order now
Sideshow has released a batch of promotional images for its upcoming Alien Warrior statue which is based on the Xenomorph from James Cameron’s 1986 sequel Aliens. The collectible stands at around 17 inches tall and is available to pre-order now, priced at $465; check it out here… SEE ALSO: Pre-order via Sideshow Collectibles Based on the […]
3 Reasons Why Alien: Covenant is the Best in the Franchise Since Aliens
Samuel Brace argues that Alien: Covenant is the best instalment in the franchise since Aliens… Alien: Covenant has been called a return to form for Ridley Scott’s much famed Alien franchise after many were lukewarm on 2012’s Prometheus. This writer was actually quite fond of that film, and so was particularly pleased with how much […]
Is the Alien franchise exhausted?
Anghus Houvouras on whether the Alien franchise is exhausted… Is the reason almost every Alien movie since the original has been, at best, a mixed bag because the premise has been exhausted? I thought about this the other day as I watched a slew of Alien: Covenant reviews pour in. Like Prometheus, it seems to […]