Aliens

News, Reviews & Features
  • First Cowboys and Aliens teaser pic

    Movie News | Matt | 19th May 2010

    Oh, Jon Favreau, stop it! (*giggles*)

  • Cowboy Harrison Ford to aliens: "Get off my planet"

    Movie News | Ali | 6th April 2010

    How to improve a movie called Cowboys & Aliens? New cast member Harrison Ford knows how: just growl at the skinny extra-terrestrial bastards until they give you your family back.

  • Olivia Wilde joins Cowboys And Aliens

    Movie News | Ali | 2nd February 2010

    The nerdiest movie currently in development just got that little bit more acceptable, with the casting addition of Tron Legacy's Olivia Wilde aka that lesbo from The OC. The one that wasn't the other one. Her.

  • District 9

    Movie Review | Ali | 3rd September 2009

    Alien skirmishes. Big guns. Badass military hardware. Interstellar war. Yeah, the Halo movie would have been pretty cool. Alas, with credit being crunched at every corner, a $200m budget was deemed too expensive for a mere videogame movie (but a toy movie? Well, that's another story) and the project was canned. Bummer.

  • Monsters Vs Aliens

    Movie Review | Kirsty | 21st April 2009

    Like so many brides to be, Susan Murphy's wedding day consisted of getting up early to be faffed and fluffed over; sneaking off to see her groom before the ceremony; being squished by a quantonium-laden meteorite and subsequently transformed into a 49-and-a-half-foot government secret codenamed Ginormica. It's a timeless tale. ...

  • The Day The Earth Stood Still

    Movie Review | Ali | 14th December 2008

    And so we come to the apocalypse once more - cinemagoers are now so blasé about the end of the world that even if aliens zapped Earth's landmarks tomorrow, we'd simply shrug and blog about how Michael Bay did it better. This latest space invader, a refit of the seminal '50s eco-fable, suffers from comparisons to bigger, louder a...

  • War Of The Worlds

    Movie Review | Ali | 3rd July 2005

    I was fully prepared for invasion. Over the last few nights, the sky outside my bedroom window has been lit up by otherworldly forces, raining down thunder and lightning like the Armageddon is just around the corner. Not only that, but the alien entity known as 'Tom Cruise' has begun his slow and steady assault on my televisio...