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ALIEN (1979)

We sit down with Sarah Welch-Larson, author of Becoming Alien, and frequent contributor to Bright Wall / Dark Room, to discuss Ridley Scott’s ALIEN. Evil, alienation, violations, organic mechanization, corporate dehumanization… and also, aliens, yes… aliens! You still don’t understand what you’re dealing with, do you? The perfect organism. Its structural perfection is matched only byContinue reading “ALIEN (1979)”

ALIENS (1986)

James Cameron’s terrifying and overwhelming sequel ALIENS is a rollercoaster that Roger Ebert called “absolutely, painfully and unremittingly intense.” We sit down with ⁠Brendan Hodges⁠ to explore the film’s power over us, what all that goo and slime means, the film’s anti-bureaucratic “strong individualist” conservatism and second wave feminist ideology, its use of space inContinue reading “ALIENS (1986)”