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ALIEN: ROMULUS (2024)

In space, no one can hear you deepfake a dead actor into your movie! We’re joined by Scout Tafoya to talk Alien: Romulus. We discuss the film’s thematic resonances with the Alien franchise, immigration, the fear of undifferentiation, psychoanalytic readings of the alien, human/android relationships, orphans in space, and go on many long rants aboutContinue reading “ALIEN: ROMULUS (2024)”

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)”