FILM Did Ripley stand a chance at the inquest? 2021-04-10 08:19:00 AM CDT2021-04-08 08:21:43 PM CDT In Aliens (1986), Ripley gets grilled by Company and space transportation officials about her role in the destruction of the Nostromo and its expensive cargo. Needless to say, things do not end well for…
FILM… “Films of a Decade I Never Knew”: A guest feature by Mitchel Ring. 2021-03-31 08:00:00 AM CDT2021-03-31 09:27:52 AM CDT Meet Mitchel Ring, a Coloradan poet whose evocative blog posts caught my interest recently. When he mentioned in his bio that he enjoys old movies, I thought, "I wonder what…
FILM R. I. P. Yaphet Kotto. 2021-03-17 10:11:30 PM CDT Yaphet Kotto died on March 15, 2021. With over 95 acting credits in television and film, his face was instantly recognizable to movie fans the world over. I first saw…
FILM The passing of Ian Holm. 2020-06-19 09:38:41 AM CDT2020-12-19 07:31:44 PM CST Carmel Dagan at Variety reports the death of Ian Holm (Cuthbert). He was 88 years old. Continue reading "The passing of Ian Holm."
COSTUMING… …in a galaxy far, far away… where no one can hear you scream? 2020-02-17 06:52:22 AM CST2020-12-19 07:32:27 PM CST Michael Scudieri, eagle-eyed author of ASH: A Fan Fiction Comic, recently re-watched Return of the Jedi and noticed a familiar piece of Alien apparel... https://www.facebook.com/AshFanFiction/posts/534568187177840?__xts__[0]=68.ARA_140ozhzU2hP5PNQqpC5LH4zVhJRA70CZc2tvaoPiC_lrY7cxhR84QaVZCE5Fk832op3AzvZSTIdmdiJao3McIhG1U_IPklC95KINzOQYCP6mNUmIrmchjV7B9lY0Nc2WQFXSk245ePZddYlfioD9GlBoLJJ08ZhXMkK5Wfk4IGPpZewe2jgTcPap1z77isNTt8Ci3Np8xu59E-184dD9FpR_Qo8LqmHoTEkknvQ0IoI7orHmMHGQ_vz3DjpXW6JHOrHEtm6Ae1gq5Nmkjm27dp1BAHXHU6HOHMBk0MDiyKlFvB4UVjYYs7Nl8c8TU2N1HwIKjJCLrCneUOz8Vh0&__tn__=-R Good catch, Michael!
FILM… Alicia's #MyAlien40th posts. 2019-12-16 04:42:21 PM CST2020-12-19 07:33:02 PM CST I admit it: I am a sucker for grass-roots tributes to Alien for its 40th anniversary. Sure, the Intellectual Property (IP) owners with the deep pockets can spring for new…
FILM… A Second chance… 2019-12-13 05:52:39 PM CST2020-12-19 07:33:02 PM CST Prop Store London recently announced another chance to bid on unsold lots left over from the recent ALIEN & ALIENS COLLECTION AUCTION. If you are on their mailing list, you…
FILM… Ego, Arrogance, and Emptiness. 2019-12-08 04:08:55 PM CST2020-12-19 07:33:03 PM CST When I first came upon photographs of Alien while reading Starlog #22, I was struck by the authenticity of the spacecraft. It looked real, not like some of the less-realized…
ART… “ALIEN went to where the Old Ones lived, to their very world of origin.” 2019-11-16 10:49:43 AM CST2020-12-19 07:33:14 PM CST Those words were written in 2003 by Dan O'Bannon, in his essay that included this recollection of a particular movie review of Alien: Continue reading "“ALIEN went to where the…
BOOKS… A page right out of… “The Thing” ? 2019-10-29 09:19:01 AM CDT2020-12-19 07:33:35 PM CST I was re-reading Alan Dean Foster's ALIEN novelization this morning (and the "decompression scene"), and I came across something I had not noticed before on page 211: one of the…
