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Alien: Covenant

Movie Review | Ali Gray | 11th May 2017

By rights, the Alien franchise should be dead by now, all curled up on its back like a big dead spider, flambÃ©ed by the flamethrower of critical ire. How many other movie series would be allowed so many misses and still get invited back to the plate for another swing? Throughout its various iterations since the 90s - sequels, prequels, versus match-ups - the Alien franchise has succeeded only in corroding its own legacy. Even 2012's promising Prometheus, directed by franchise progenitor Ridley Scott, fell short of expectations thanks to its entire cast suffering total frontal lobotomies in the third act. Well, the rot stops here. In Alien: Covenant, Ridley Scott has directed the best Alien movie of the past 30 years, and although that isn't exactly a glowing compliment, know this: not only does Covenant deliver a payload of short, sharp scares and atmosphere in spades, it course-corrects the franchise as a whole, retroactively making Prometheus feel like a better movie too.

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Hey Christian Bale, would you say your performance in Exodus is OTT?

Movie Trailer | Ali Gray | 1st October 2014

Good to know, thanks dude! The new trailer for Ridley Scott's Exodus: Gods And Kings is below, with Welshman Christian Bale playing Egyptian prophet Moses and Australian Joel Edgerton as pharaoh Ramesses II. Oh Hollywood, how is it that this isn't even weird any more?

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Exclusive Exodus set pic: Moses gets fly swat caught in hood

Movie News | Ed Williamson | 10th July 2014

It is written that he later used the same fly swat to part the Red Sea. His horse continued not to give a fuck.

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Observations on Cormac McCarthy's screenplay for The Counsellor

Movie Feature | Ali Gray | 19th November 2013

It has been 10 days since I saw The Counsellor, and despite it being an obviously flawed, frustrating film, there's something about it that clings to your subconscious, like recalling the remnants of a nightmare in the cold light of day. Ridley Scott's editor is clearly a goddamn American hero, because he was tasked with cutting down Cormac McCarthy's insanely verbose script for the screen; now, having read McCarthy's original, complete screenplay, I'm happy to share with you a few things I've noticed when comparing page to film.

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The Counsellor

Movie Review | Ed Williamson | 14th November 2013

'Exciting on paper' is a bit of an oxymoron. Nothing's exciting on paper. Books aren't exciting, unless you throw them at passing cars to make them crash. Cormac McCarthy is a man who writes these so-called 'books', and he's said to be very good at it. And so The Counsellor, his first original screenplay, with a first-rate director and cast, is tremendously exciting on paper. Trouble is, paper and film are very different things.

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Prometheus

Movie Review | Ali | 31st May 2012

For all the talk of Prometheus "sharing the same DNA" as Alien, Ridley Scott's prequel doesn't bear much family resemblance to its granddaddy. The economy of horror that served his 1979 effort so well is replaced by a big-budget, star-gazing sci-fi that wants you to know it has size on its side. Hugely ambitious and staggering in its grand designs, Prometheus is almost hamstrung by the fact it is an Alien movie at all â€“ the mishmash of grotesque body-horror and chin-stroking existentialism does not always make for the most coherent movie, but it is at least an entertaining one and certainly no black mark on the franchise.

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When movies and pop music collide

Movie News | Ali | 12th May 2012

R.I.P. Lee Latchford-Evans and the fat one. (Goofy Prometheus set picture, courtesy of PrometheusForum.net via Reddit)

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Prometheus virals cross the line into 'actually genuinely disturbing'

Movie News | Ali | 3rd May 2012

Warning: fucking horrifying audio death scene revealed by Prometheus viral. Could be considered a spoiler if you're blind. (via Bleeding Cool)

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"SO MUCH JIZZ. EVERYTHING IS EJACULATE." - Ali Gray, 2012

Movie Trailer | Luke | 29th April 2012

Ali is excited about the new international Prometheus trailer.

Source: #areyouseeingthis

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Prometheus viral: Fassbot will see to your every need (*winks*)

Movie News | Ali | 17th April 2012

Another Prometheus viral. Happy birthday, David!

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