The last dozen or so years of Ridley Scott’s career seem designed as a punishing obstacle course to challenge the most diehard auteur apologists. But fanboys frustrated and depressed by their quotidian realities will nevertheless be flocking to Prometheus this weekend, looking for solutions to cosmic problems from a man whose mind, to borrow one of my favorite Manny Farber put-downs, is “an unthinking morass at best.” “Even after all this, you still believe,” one character is heard to say … Read More
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Films vs. Movies #19: In a Cube No One Can Hear You Scream
Alien vs. Aliens vs. Alien vs. Predator
