CategoryScience Fiction
Terminator: The Sci-Fi Classic Forty Years On
The best thing about this first movie is that it adheres to the classic view of futuristic robots, cold, callous machines that are bent on one objective
Alien: Romulus (2024): Parting Thoughts on the Movie, Franchise
The Alien franchise can still be saved if future writers will at least maintain this latest addition’s quality
Alien: Romulus News Flash: Ripley Didn’t Kill Her First Alien
We learn that the aliens usually don’t intend to eat their prey but to use them to incubate facehugger embryos.
Alien: Romulus: Andy Turns Bad — Thanks to an Old Friend
Ash reappears in the story, a nice touch which reconnects the film to the original
Alien: Romulus (2024) Wait! This Movie is Actually Good?
A new character, Rain, tries to escape the Weyland Corporation mine in which her parents were killed but the xenomorphs have infiltrated the space station the escapees must board
Alien Covenant (2017) Could’ve Worked. Here’s How
I am going to boldly go and propose changes to the script so as to make the characters' decisions more natural and plausibleAlien: Covenant (2017): All’s Well That Ends Well for the Embryos
Or is it? We find out why David needs to sneak aboard the ship disguised as Walter — but it’s not what we might suspect
Alien: Covenant Part 5: Wake up, Daniels! It’s Obviously David!
The evil robot must board the ship again, and must find a way to make sure the alien boards the ship as well
Alien Covenant (2017): Dr. Frankenstein in Space
David, the robotic sociopath, turns out to have been breeding deadly aliens all this time
Alien Covenant (2017): David the Malicious Robot… Returns!
And, just in case we haven’t already suspected, David is lying about what happened to Dr. ShawAlien: Covenant (2017): When the Prophet Fails
Everybody trudges onto the planet in what amounts to hunting gear and they begin looking for Shaw’s ship...
Alien: Covenant (2017): A Story Driven by Stupidity, Coincidence
Nothing seems to happen as the natural result of a character’s choices, consistent with personality and motive
Prometheus (2012): In the End Did Dr. Shaw Really Learn Anything?
Elizabeth Shaw’s faith has been challenged throughout the film; for example, she learns that aliens, not God, created humanity. But do her responses make sense?
Prometheus (2012): Oops. Our Alien Creators Now Want to Kill Us
What should have been an awful revelation degenerates into what seems like the dumbest scene ever filmed
Prometheus (2012): Don’t Touch the Aliens’ Stuff!
Upon entering what is described as the Engineers’ “temple,” the crew unleashes strange and deadly perils…
Sci-fi Film Explores Idea That Earth’s Life Was Seeded From Space
Prometheus 2012 offers an intriguing premise: ancient civilizations were told in mysterious ways of a habitable moon in a distant galaxy (Part 1 of 4)
Hypothesis: Yes, ET Existed — But Mainly in the Past
A recent paper introduces the idea of cryptoterrestrials, technologically advanced civilizations on Earth, perhaps from earlier geological eras, as the source of the UAPs/UFOs
Interstellar 2014, Part 5: Time Travel Saves — But Also Destroys
Time travel solves some problems for planet Earth but it turns out to be no match for human mortality and sundered relationships