Please note: this review contains a light spoiler, something that’s been revealed already in the film’s promotion. But just flagging it here in case you’ve managed to avoid everything so far. A decade ...
ALIEN: COVENANT has had mixed reviews from critics and audiences thus far, and Mark Kermode might have just perfectly articulated the biggest problem with it. The film critic, speaking on BBC Radio 5 ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The premise has the spaceship Covenant with 2000 humans and another 11oo or so embryos on board in deep freeze headed on a ...
Alien: Covenant has begun its international rollout, and critics are largely praising Ridley Scott's latest foray into the sci-fi universe he created way back in 1979, even if there are some pretty ...
Ridley Scott slickly blends familiar themes from the series for this new prequel, but clunky dialogue takes the edge off the action Eleven years have passed since the ill-fated Prometheus mission. And ...
Alien: Covenant’s strongest improvement on its predecessor is simple narrative coherence. The plot – the colonisation mission of the Covenant is waylaid by an accident and the promise of a closer, ...
THERE is such an ocean of gloop in Ridley Scott’s sequel to Prometheus one is tempted to advise the wearing of a wet-suit to the cinema. The many-toothed monsters have always been prone to a bad case ...
“Alien” taught us that in space, no one can hear you scream. The latest offshoot of its DNA, “Alien: Covenant,” offers the lesson for fans of early incarnations that in theaters, people can indeed ...
The film critic, speaking on BBC Radio 5 Live, blamed the focus on backstory for the film’s arguably shoddy quality. “It’s absolutely confirmation for me that Ridley Scott is as good as the script ...
One of the oddest things about this movie is the ridiculous number of characters who seemingly show up out nowhere, pretty much for the sole reason to present themselves as fodder for one of the ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. With Prometheus, Scott took big swings and engaged with philosophy on a hardcore sci-fi level - presumably because a tale about ...
It is not always easy to make waves with a new horror film since the genre is so over-saturated, and it feels like we have seen every variation. But in 1979, Ridley Scott managed it with the release ...