Makenzie is a passionate & lifelong cinema lover, musician, and aspiring filmmaker with years of experience as a professional writer and editor. With sharp writing and in-depth analytical skills, ...

Alien is a masterpiece of practical effects work. At 40 years old, the film’s set and creature designs hold up perhaps better than any other sci-fi film of its era. With little in the way of a marked ...

Prior to Ridley Scott‘s Alien prequels — Prometheus in 2012 and now Alien: Covenant — each Alien movie had a strikingly different directorial vision. Scott’s 1979 classic was a “haunted house in space ...