Alien Rating Director Ridley Scott Screenplay Dan O’Bannon, Ronald Shusett Length 117 min. Starring Tom Skerritt, Sigourney Weaver, Veronica Cartwright, Harry Dean Stanton, John Hurt, Ian Holm, Yaphet Kotto MPAA Rating R for sci-fi violence/gore and language
This weekend saw the release of the fifth narrative-driven film of the alien franchise (I am not including the out-of-place Alien vs. Predator films) and it debuted to large numbers, validating the interest in the prequel that box office pundits seemed to discount in their analyses of the weekend. After I picked up the movie…
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Every week, I get several press releases, screening invitations and other notifications from a handful of studio contacts. While I won’t be sharing any information regarding my screening invites, some of the press releases might be of interest to my readers, so I thought I’d start sharing them in toto with all of you. These…
Warner Bros. has offered to send one lucky winner a Blu-ray copy of last week’s home video release of Journey 2: The Mysterious Island the sequel to their highly successful 2008 feature Journey to the Center of the Earth. Josh Hutcherson returns to the role of Sean Anderson in the film and is joined for…
Oscar News Amour won the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival, giving director Michael Haneke his second Palme d’Or. Review Round-Up Wes Andersen is getting some of his best reviews in years for Moonrise Kingdom, with an 84 on Metacritic. The Cannes opening night film is being compared to Andersen’s Rushmore and The Royal Tennenbaums, the…
On Sundays, we list the weekend’s upcoming films along with previews of trailers and posters. On Wednesdays, we preview all of the upcoming new wide and limited releases hitting the theaters the coming weekend. On Fridays, we’ll now tell you what you should see. We pose two questions each week to our contributors and their…
Time for another week of the Friday Face-Off. It’s a simple affair in which you are given a choice between two Oscar winners in specific categories. You choose which of the two is best. When the game concludes, we’ll have the ultimate winner in each category. For example: If you were to choose between Oscar…
Every week, we’ll take a look back 5, 10, 15, 20, 25 and 30 years into the box office past to explore how Oscar’s nominees were doing at the box office that weekend historically. All data is taken from Box Office Mojo. The first section under each year is the positioning of all Oscar nominees…