We’re now seven installments into the Alien franchise. Of those seven, I think they break up into two extremely loose categories. The first category primarily has a focus on sci-fi horror, which I like to call “WE’RE GONNA DIE!” movies. For example: Alien is “We’re space truckers and WE’RE GONNA DIE!” Aliens is “We’re space […]

There’s a photo I remember seeing not too long ago. It was taken in Irpin, one of the suburbs of the Ukrainian city of Kyiv. The first thing I noticed was a Ukrainian soldier staring downwards, a look of numb shock on his face. What he’s looking at is a dead family. A mother and […]

One of the worst clichés in the history of film is also one of the most accurate. I think you know it, and when I tell you what it is, your response will likely range between rolling your eyes indulgently and a desire to burn down your nearest movie theater and salt the earth. It’s […]