Get ready to get squirmy. We're delving into Ridley Scott's masterpiece from 1979, 'Alien'. Yup - buckle up with all of the chest bursting, blood spurting and milk gurgling that you can muster. Probably worth mentioning at this point - Alien is the 52nd greatest film of all time according to IMDB - spawning one of the most successful franchises of all time.

First there's the small matter of Deadpool and Wolverine and how incredibly that's performed at the box office so far - but will it catch 'Inside Out 2' to become the highest grossing film of the year.

Right let's put this to rest now as well... Yes there will be a minimum 5 minute section where Jack and Ben neek out over practical effects. We all knew going in that, this was going to be the case, so let's just learn to enjoy it, because really that's the absolute beauty of this film - even with the strange baby alien on a skateboard sequence after jumping out of John Hurt's intestines.

What's kind of mad is that even though this is a film about a giant indestructible space slug going on a rampage and killing everyone in space... it's only really 50 percent Sci Fi, it has a real affection for some of the horror tropes that give the film a wonderful edge.

No secret that Ridley Scott is on imperious form here and we delve into the inner workings of a man who is still absolutely taking the industry by storm at the age of 86. Plus there's the MVP performance of Sigourney Weaver who WASN'T nomm'd for an Oscar. ABSURD.

Finally the small matter of how this wonderful film has aged. The finest of fine wines.

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29 Jul 2024