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Comic Book Preview – Aliens: What If…? #2

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Marvel’s Aliens: What If…? continues this coming Wednesday with the release of the second issue, and you can get a sneak peek below with the official preview… WHAT IF… CARTER BURKE HAD LIVED? Thirty-five years after the disaster on Hadleys Hope, company man Carter Burke is eeking out a cursed existence on a backwater asteroid. […]

Comic Book Preview – Aliens: What If…? #1

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Marvel gives the What If…? treatment to the Alien franchise for the first time this coming week with the release of Aliens: What If…? #1, which asks the question, ‘What If… Carter Burke Had Lived?’. Check out the preview below… For years, fans of James Cameron’s legendary Aliens questioned whether Carter Burke, a company man […]

Marvel to give Aliens the What If…? treatment with Paul Reiser

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For the very first time since its introduction in back in 1977, Marvel Comics’ What If…? is set to venture beyond the realm of the Marvel Universe in March with the release of Aliens: What If…? #1, a one-shot that promises to answer the question ‘What If… Carter Burke Had Lived?’ and is co-written by […]

Academy Re-Awards: Fixing the Best Picture Oscar Winners of the 1980s

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Coinciding with the Oscars, we take a trip back to the 1980s to fix the Best Picture winners… The Oscars are upon us. Year after year, controversy and debate rages, over the nominations, the oversights and the eventual winners. Over the years there have been plenty of safe and so-so choices for Best Picture at […]

Aliens: Dark Descent gameplay trailer and launch date revealed

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It’s certainly an exciting time to be a fan of the Alien franchise. We’ve got ongoing comic books from Marvel, a new film in production from director Fede Alvarez and producer Ridley Scott, an upcoming TV series from Noah Hawley and FX, and now Focus Entertainment and Tindalos Interactive have announced that the real-time tactical […]

The Predator co-writer compares the movie to Aliens

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With filming on Shane Black’s The Predator set to get underway in October, Black’s co-writer Fred Dekker has been speaking to the Movie Crypt podcast (via Entertainment Weekly) about the next instalment in the sci-fi action series, comparing it to James Cameron’s 1986 classic Aliens. “If you think of the first Predator as Alien, ours is much […]

A Beginner’s Guide To James Cameron

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In our latest beginner’s guide, Tom Jolliffe looks at the career of James Cameron…. Like many of the top directors, it didn’t happen overnight for James Cameron, now dubbed The King of the World (possibly by himself?). He worked in visual effects, and as an assistant director before getting his break in B pictures. It […]

The Coolest Guns in Sci-fi and Fantasy Movies

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Marvelous Videos on the coolest firearms from sci-fi and fantasy movies… After killing General Grievous with a blaster pistol in Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith, Obi-Wan tosses it, opining that it is the weapon of uncivilized people. As big fans of the science fiction and fantasy genres, we could not disagree more. Guns may […]

Comic Book Preview – Aliens: Aftermath #1

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Marvel celebrates the 35th anniversary of James Cameron’s Aliens by revisiting LV-426 for the brand new comic book series Aliens: Aftermath, and you can check out a preview of the first issue here ahead of its release next week… FOR ALIENS’ 35TH ANNIVERSARY, A RETURN TO HADLEY’S HOPE! It’s been 35 years since the tragedy […]