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Read more →Monthly Archives: April 2021
This Week’s New Releases Include “Another Thin Man” and “Each Dawn I Die”
This week’s new Blu-ray and DVD offerings are the perfect snapshot of the diversity of the moviegoing experience. Making their home video debuts this week are are assortment of favorites — both classic and contemporary — from the Warner Archive…
Read more →Create-A-Caption: Donnie Darko
Arguably the biggest cult classic in recent memory, Donnie Darko stars Jake Gyllenhaal as a gifted but troubled ’80s high school student whose adolescent horrors take on new dimensions, as he starts to see “shifts in time” and is visited…
Read more →Poll: Who’s Your Favorite Character from “Buck Rogers in the 25th Century”?
We recently lost veteran character Felix Silla, who was perhaps best known for his work as the lovable Twiki in Buck Rogers in the 25th Century. The 1979-81 science-fiction series found 20th-century astronaut Capt. William “Buck” Rogers (Gil Gerard) thawed…
Read more →When Aliens Took Over Saturday Night Live
Saturday Night Live has had a long history with science fiction sketches (with the recurring Coneheads skits being the ones that pop to mind first in this regard). Since it’s been over years since the release of Aliens, I thought…
Read more →Poll: Who’s Your Favorite Character from the 1979 Sci-fi/Horror Classic Alien?
In space no can hear you scream. Or pick your favorite character from Alien. Who is your favorite character from Ridley Scott’s 1979 masterpiece? This poll originally ran in 2018. We are reprinting it as part of our Alien Day…
Read more →The “Alien” Disco 45: In Space, No One Can Hear You Dance
Alien is easily one of the scariest and best science-fiction flicks of all time, but a phenomenon on the dancefloor? Not so much. But that didn’t stop some enterprising musicians from trying to make Jerry Goldsmith‘s memorable score from the…
Read more →Create-A-Caption: Alien
It’s time for another Create-A-Caption! For this week’s film, we’ve chosen Alien. Ridley Scott‘s 1979 sic-fi classic remains one of the most influential films of all time. A huge part of the film’s enduring appeal is the scene when —…
Read more →Celebrate Alien Day With The Trailer For The 1979 Sci-Fi Masterpiece
Today is Alien Day, a celebration of Fox’s long-running sci-fi franchise. If you search around online today you’ll notice a variety of tributes to the face-hugging xenomorphs. Why is such a manufactured holiday happening on April 26th? Because of LV-426,…
Read more →Forgotten Media: “Alien” Radio Spots
In space, no one can hear you scream. We all know that. But on the radio, everyone can. To promote the 1979 release of Alien at London’s Odeon Leicester Square theater, 20th Century Fox created a series of haunting…
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