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Onward to Paradise: A Sequel to Prometheus is Confirmed

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Rumors are rumors no more. A confirmed sequel is in the works for Prometheus, titled Prometheus 2 (alternatively titled Paradise). Continue reading →

PROMETHEUS: A New Classic

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As Prometheus begins, we are moved, like a bird, through clouds, over a beautiful landscape—a terrain with rivers and mountains leveling off to geography that seems too familiar to be alien. The planet has everything to sustain life as we know it today on Earth—or so it seems.  Could it be Earth? Of course, it could. Is it for sure? We have no way of knowing…yet. Continue reading →

PETER WEYLAND – TED 2023

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Here’s the ever-ambitious, pretentiously-overreaching Sir Peter Weyland (Guy Pearce) of Weyland Industries. (Of course, he’s a billionaire business man, as well.) He’s stirred up a hornet’s nest of controversy, since his announcement of plans to build the first humanoid robotic … Continue reading →

ALIEN: Remembering a Classic

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If you’re one of the few who’s never seen Alien, read no more than this paragraph.  I wouldn’t want to spoil a classic waiting to be seen.  However, if you have seen it, you may be interested in my take on a movie that affected me like no other… Continue reading →

PROMETHEUS: Thinking Back and Ahead

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I will never forget seeing, for the first time, the Space Jockey, in his alien cockpit, fossilized on the big screen.  Since then, back in 1979, I have, with each repeated viewing of the movie Alien, only imagined the mysteries behind this surreal specimen, preserved and painted permanently in my mind. Continue reading →