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 […]

Poverty breeds desperation. I’ve never been poor. Sure, money has been tight, and there have been times where I’ve had to, shall we say, get creative with my finances. But I’ve always occupied the middle-class strata, even if I’ve occasionally drifted down near the bottom rung of that particular ladder. But being straight-up poor is different. That’s […]