Alien: Earth Is Unfriendly and Brilliant

Alien: Earth is unfriendly and brilliant

Another day, another bunch of rampaging, acid-blooded xenomorphs. Noah Hawley’s new series, Alien: Earth, comes hard on the heels of the profoundly forgettable but commercially successful latest installment in the film saga, Romulus. That film got into trouble with certain viewers for its artistic necrophilia in the artificial-intelligence-assisted resurrection of Ian Holm’s character Ash from the first Alien film, as well as some rather laborio…

Noah Hawley’s Alien: Earth​ Is Not Such a Tight Ship

FX’s Alien: Earth shreds. In making the first-ever television show based on the Alien film franchise, creator Noah Hawley seems to have had one insight that overwhelmed all the rest: that Alien’s got kind of a heavy metal vibe. This sounds like a criticism, but I don’t necessarily mean it that way. Hawley’s televisual take on the Alien universe is faithful and unfaithful to the canon by turns. It sticks to the basic idea—a group of hapless human…

Alien: Earth Is a Much-Needed Defense of Humanity

After two decades of clumsy crossovers and fumbling retreads, fans of 20th Century Fox’s Alien and Predator franchises are finally enjoying something of a golden age. Both beloved horror sci-fi franchises — one born in 1979 with Ridley Scott’s Alien, the other in 1987 with John McTiernan’s Predator — have been given a new lease […]

Wendy Actor Sydney Chandler Had a "Scary" First Day on the Sets of 'Alien: Earth'

Alien: Earth’s Sydney Chandler recently shared how intense her first day on the show set was during a BAFTA interview. When the interviewer asked her about her first day at the set of the first-ever TV show in the Alien franchise, the star said capturing the chaos and excitement of her introduction to the sci-fi thriller, My first day was with Adarsh, and we were on a staircase, and there was fire. And there’s water and there’s sparks. And I was…

Alien: Earth - Neverland review S1 E1 - new gory stat

Neverland kicks off the debut of Alien: Earth, a new series featuring sci-fi fandom’s favorite xenomorphs. While the jury’s still The post Alien: Earth – Neverland review S1 E1 first appeared on Lyles Movie Files.