Ryan Lambie May 17, 2017
So Alien: Covenant. What was that all about then? Spoiler alert, as we delve into some of its lingering questions...
Nb: This article contains copious Prometheus and Alien: Covenant spoilers.
If you've seen Alien: Covenant, then you'll know by now that it's a very different beast from its predecessor, Prometheus. Where the last Alien prequel was as stately as an ocean-going liner, Covenant moves about like an out-of-control racing car. Once all the atmosphere-building's out of the way and the latest ship full of explorers lands on the ironically-named planet, Paradise, things go wrong with breathtaking speed.
In essence, it's the story of humans - led by the resourceful Daniels (Katherine Waterstone) - versus the crazed synthetic scientist David (Michael Fassbender, with his accents) and an army of ghoulish monsters. There's copious blood, teeth and ooze, and more than a few lingering questions to address.
So with one final warning for spoilers,...
So Alien: Covenant. What was that all about then? Spoiler alert, as we delve into some of its lingering questions...
Nb: This article contains copious Prometheus and Alien: Covenant spoilers.
If you've seen Alien: Covenant, then you'll know by now that it's a very different beast from its predecessor, Prometheus. Where the last Alien prequel was as stately as an ocean-going liner, Covenant moves about like an out-of-control racing car. Once all the atmosphere-building's out of the way and the latest ship full of explorers lands on the ironically-named planet, Paradise, things go wrong with breathtaking speed.
In essence, it's the story of humans - led by the resourceful Daniels (Katherine Waterstone) - versus the crazed synthetic scientist David (Michael Fassbender, with his accents) and an army of ghoulish monsters. There's copious blood, teeth and ooze, and more than a few lingering questions to address.
So with one final warning for spoilers,...
- 5/3/2017
- Den of Geek
Ryan Lambie Nov 4, 2016
What was Prometheus all about? What can we expect from Alien: Covenant? Ryan looks at the series' inspirations to build up a theory...
Nb: The following contains spoilers for Prometheus, and possible spoiler-filled conjecture for Alien: Covenant.
See related Joseph Kosinski on Tron 3 and The Black Hole remake
On one level, Prometheus was everything you might have expected from an Alien movie: a space slasher film where a bunch of explorers are pursued and physically invaded by something slippery from beyond the stars. Yet Ridley Scott's Alien prequel also seemed to have lots more on its mind: aliens fiddling with the building blocks of life, meditations on what lies beyond the curtain of death, and copious dollops of silky black goo.
Prometheus toyed with weighty themes, yet left plenty of specifics frustratingly obscure. What happened on the planetoid Lv-223 that led all those Engineers to die in a heap?...
What was Prometheus all about? What can we expect from Alien: Covenant? Ryan looks at the series' inspirations to build up a theory...
Nb: The following contains spoilers for Prometheus, and possible spoiler-filled conjecture for Alien: Covenant.
See related Joseph Kosinski on Tron 3 and The Black Hole remake
On one level, Prometheus was everything you might have expected from an Alien movie: a space slasher film where a bunch of explorers are pursued and physically invaded by something slippery from beyond the stars. Yet Ridley Scott's Alien prequel also seemed to have lots more on its mind: aliens fiddling with the building blocks of life, meditations on what lies beyond the curtain of death, and copious dollops of silky black goo.
Prometheus toyed with weighty themes, yet left plenty of specifics frustratingly obscure. What happened on the planetoid Lv-223 that led all those Engineers to die in a heap?...
- 11/3/2016
- Den of Geek
Ryan Lambie Nov 1, 2016
With potential spoilers, a new report suggests that a character from Prometheus is set to return in Alien: Covenant...
Nb: The following contains potential spoilers for Alien: Covenant.
See related DC Comics movies: upcoming UK release dates calendar Batman V Superman: where does it leave the Justice League? Why cinema needs Batman: the world’s greatest detective Zack Snyder interview: Batman V Superman Deborah Snyder & Charles Roven interview: Man Of Steel
There were lots of things in Ridley Scott's Prometheus that left us scratching our heads. Not least, why cast an actor of Guy Pearce's vintage, only to cover him in latex for the role of the wizened Peter Weyland? The answer, we later found out, was because Pearce was originally going to have a scene or two where he played a much younger version of the billionaire corporate boss, but these were ultimately dropped.
With potential spoilers, a new report suggests that a character from Prometheus is set to return in Alien: Covenant...
Nb: The following contains potential spoilers for Alien: Covenant.
See related DC Comics movies: upcoming UK release dates calendar Batman V Superman: where does it leave the Justice League? Why cinema needs Batman: the world’s greatest detective Zack Snyder interview: Batman V Superman Deborah Snyder & Charles Roven interview: Man Of Steel
There were lots of things in Ridley Scott's Prometheus that left us scratching our heads. Not least, why cast an actor of Guy Pearce's vintage, only to cover him in latex for the role of the wizened Peter Weyland? The answer, we later found out, was because Pearce was originally going to have a scene or two where he played a much younger version of the billionaire corporate boss, but these were ultimately dropped.
- 11/1/2016
- Den of Geek
Review by Stephen Tronicek
To watch Werner Herzog’s Lo And Behold, Reveries Of The Connected World is to in itself become lost in a reverie of your own. Herzog’s way of creating the full sweep of emotions of the existing internet is fascinating in fact, but dreamlike in rhythm. The strength of the film is that it plays like a wild, but self-contained dream completely aware of the fact that it is based on an almost infinite and ever expanding topic. There’s beauty in that too. The internet is ubiquitous as to almost alleviate the point in crafting a documentary about its origins, its future, and it’s ultimate effect on humankind, but that doesn’t stop Herzog from trying and succeeding to show us the many faces that the history and effect of the internet have to offer.
The method in how he does so is...
To watch Werner Herzog’s Lo And Behold, Reveries Of The Connected World is to in itself become lost in a reverie of your own. Herzog’s way of creating the full sweep of emotions of the existing internet is fascinating in fact, but dreamlike in rhythm. The strength of the film is that it plays like a wild, but self-contained dream completely aware of the fact that it is based on an almost infinite and ever expanding topic. There’s beauty in that too. The internet is ubiquitous as to almost alleviate the point in crafting a documentary about its origins, its future, and it’s ultimate effect on humankind, but that doesn’t stop Herzog from trying and succeeding to show us the many faces that the history and effect of the internet have to offer.
The method in how he does so is...
- 9/26/2016
- by Movie Geeks
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
“There’s a line in Tarkovsky’s Solaris: we never know when we’re going to die and because of that we are, at any given moment, immortal. So at this moment it feels pretty good, being where I’ve always longed to be, perched on the farthest edge of the western world. There’s a wild sunset brewing up over the Pacific. The water is glowing turquoise, the sky is turning crazy pink, the lights of the Santa Monica Ferris wheel are starting to pulse and spin in the twilight. Life is so interesting I’d like to stick around for ever, just to see what happens, how it all turns out.”—Geoff Dyer, London Review of Books“As wars will be fought, and great loves found.”—Narrator, It’s Such a Beautiful DayPsycholinguists call the opening gag of It’s Such a Beautiful Day (2012), Don Hertzfeldt’s delightful hour-long feature,...
- 7/25/2016
- MUBI
Stars: Jamie Gillis, Michael Gaunt, Tiffany Clark, Milton Ingley, George Payne, Samantha Fox, Tanya Lawson, Marilyn Gee, Tish Ambrose, Kelly Nichols, Nicole Bernard, Bobby Astyr | Written and Directed by Roger Watkins
“One man’s fantasy is another man’s reality!”
Finding himself with a debt that he just can’t pay off, Williams (Jamie Gillis, Dracula Sucks) is tasked by shady mafia-like Franklin (Michael Gaunt, Maraschino Cherry) with something of a retrieval mission to a mysterious warehouse containing three coloured rooms; a blue, a red and a black one, each housing a beautiful woman. Williams sends his associate Alan (George Payne, The Taming of Rebecca) to carry out the task on his behalf, but with balls of steel, Alan has taken the item for himself and has disappeared. This leads Williams to pursue him down a gaping glory… I mean rabbit hole. Frustrated and desperate, Williams visits a seedy, desolate...
“One man’s fantasy is another man’s reality!”
Finding himself with a debt that he just can’t pay off, Williams (Jamie Gillis, Dracula Sucks) is tasked by shady mafia-like Franklin (Michael Gaunt, Maraschino Cherry) with something of a retrieval mission to a mysterious warehouse containing three coloured rooms; a blue, a red and a black one, each housing a beautiful woman. Williams sends his associate Alan (George Payne, The Taming of Rebecca) to carry out the task on his behalf, but with balls of steel, Alan has taken the item for himself and has disappeared. This leads Williams to pursue him down a gaping glory… I mean rabbit hole. Frustrated and desperate, Williams visits a seedy, desolate...
- 2/17/2016
- by Mondo Squallido
- Nerdly
For most of his life, the composer John Luther Adams has lived, both literally and metaphorically, at the periphery of American concert life. He's made his home on a ridge outside Fairbanks, Alaska, though he has had regular sojourns in a remote Mexican desert. Until yesterday, neither he nor his music had ever entered Carnegie Hall. At 61 (and a newly minted part-time New Yorker), he made his belated entrance (as part of the final Spring for Music festival) with Become Ocean, a magnificently slow-boiling orchestral tone poem that recently won the Pulitzer Prize. Adams is an inland creature, but maybe because the Seattle Symphony Orchestra commissioned and performed the work, he has produced a kind of tidal music that I have never heard before. There are familiar glints — the timeless rumble of the Rhine that opens Wagner’s Das Rheingold, the sunlit undulations of Debussy’s La Mer (with which...
- 5/7/2014
- by Justin Davidson
- Vulture
I haven’t been seeing many movies lately and it’s been killing me; I feel like my mind’s shrunk into a leathery, walnut-sized nub. The 99% of the population who don’t spend hours every day watching movies often look askance at people like me; they seem to think that I’ve been wasting my time, while they, who spend those same hours shopping for napkin rings, cleaning their shower-tile grout, or—even worse—writing poetry, seem to think that their own cogitations are more spiritually uplifting. But recently I remembered just how creative watching movies can be when I re-read Walter Benjamin’s essay “Unpacking My Library”, in which the noted bibliophile wrote about a book collector’s relationship with his possessions. Surprisingly, there aren’t that many similarities between book collecting and cinephilia, but the differences do remind me why I’ve been feeling the need to...
- 6/17/2013
- by Doug Dibbern
- MUBI
Everett Collection File photo of James Levine
Boston’s loss is New York’s concern: Conductor James Levine – music director at the Metropolitan Opera and the Boston Symphony Orchestra – has withdrawn from his remaining appearances scheduled for the Bso’s 2010-2011 season, the orchestra announced Tuesday.
The concerts – which will proceed as planned without Mr. Levine – are scheduled at Carnegie Hall, Boston’s Symphony Hall, the New Jersey Performing Arts Center, and the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C. between...
Boston’s loss is New York’s concern: Conductor James Levine – music director at the Metropolitan Opera and the Boston Symphony Orchestra – has withdrawn from his remaining appearances scheduled for the Bso’s 2010-2011 season, the orchestra announced Tuesday.
The concerts – which will proceed as planned without Mr. Levine – are scheduled at Carnegie Hall, Boston’s Symphony Hall, the New Jersey Performing Arts Center, and the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C. between...
- 3/2/2011
- by Pia Catton
- Speakeasy/Wall Street Journal
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