Sigourney Weaver
Follows a young girl, Alice Hart, whose violent childhood casts a dark shadow over her adult life
Avatar 2 puts to rest the ahistorical argument that Avatar had “no lasting cultural impact.”
Avatar: The Way of Water makes a statement as the most spectacular blockbuster of the year, providing a thrilling ride through the mesmerizing world.
A married woman with an unwanted pregnancy can’t get a legal abortion and works with a group of suburban women to find help.
Paul Schrader is a master storyteller, but with Master Gardener, even masters are capable of misfires.
In his final Sundance coverage, Kevin Lee reviews Call Jane and Emily the Criminal.
As Alien turns 40 this year, it’s a good time to revisit the original film, examining the legacy that has endured from it.
A Monster Calls is an entertaining and beautifully presented fantasy, which also imbues deeper universal themes of grief and loss.
The figure of the action heroine in film has always been present to some extent, even looking back to some of the adventure shorts of silent cinema or the femme fatales of post-war film noir it could be argued that there were early incarnations of the action heroine that we recognise today. However, despite her presence as a figure across all genres and time periods, it has only been in the last few decades that we have really seen women taking centre stage in their own stories and action set pieces. Female led action films have rarely avoided criticism, such is the weight of expectation when women feature prominently in a genre in which they have more often than not been excluded or marginalised.
Neil Blomkamp is still a relatively new director in the game, though he has now done three movies. His first, District 9, is an intensely original feature, focusing on the subject of extraterrestrials who have come to Earth and suffer to live alongside the community of South Africa. It is at once both entertaining and politically charged, and was so well-received upon its release that it was even nominated for Best Picture at the Oscars, a very rare accomplishment for a sci-fi.
Back in January Neill Blomkamp, the director of District 9, Elysium and the forthcoming Chappie posted online some intriguing fan/concept art for an as-yet-announced project related to the now floundering Alien franchise. The art featured some very intriguing illustrations of not only Sigourney Weaver as an almost fully evolved Ripley/xenomorph hybrid but also Michael Biehn as a battle scarred Corporal Hicks. At the time nobody knew what they were for: