When making an Alien movie three things are a must. First, Facehuggers. Without them, you can’t have the other two. Second, a Chestburster.
This week on io9, Star Wars dropped the first trailer for Disney+ series The Acolyte, and we examined every nuance, new character, and lightsaber flash featured throughout. Elsewhere, a first look at Alien: Romulus, big Doctor Who news, the return of Ghostbusters, and more. - io9 staff
This week’s news brought with it a bevy of superhero goodness—the first trailers for Deadpool & Wolverine and X-Men ‘97, the formal introduction of our cinematic Fantastic Four—and a whole heap of superhero messiness as Madame Web dropped like a stone on Valentines. Here’s all that, and more, in case you missed the…
In a modern movie landscape dominated by mega franchises, 2024 is looking mighty odd indeed. Yes, we’ve got films coming from DC, Marvel, Transformers, Lord of the Rings, and a few others, but almost all of them are slightly off-brand. The Transformers and Lord of the Rings movies are animated.
Not every conflict goes the way of Star Trek’s heroes—Pyrrhic victories, momentary defeats, escapes from scrapes that leave them bloody-nosed.
When Ellen Ripley said “Get away from her, you bitch,” she apparently wasn’t talking about the latest Alien movie.
Ridley Scott is no stranger to seeing new talent step into franchises he created—he did it with Denis Villeneuve’s Blade Runner 2049, a movie he recently said he regretted not directing himself.
Star Trek: Picard returns for its third and final season this week, with its titular hero tasked with one last adventure alongside faces old and new.