Every once in a while (or very often) when watching a Sci-Fi movie on aliens invading the planet, it happens that we can find ourselves cheering for the invaders after the 20th scene of a super guy killing everyone or a hot sex bomb kissing a looser because “he is our savior!” (whatever…). What I…
Written for the Screen & Directed by Andrew Niccol Starring Saoirse Ronan, Jake Abel, Max Irons, Diane Kruger, William Hurt and Emily Browning PG-13, 126 minutes It now seems a grave miscalculation that, in an alien invasion movie, we will automatically be rooting for the humans. This thought had never occurred to me until after…
Great monster films are a rarity. On the surface they sound simple to make, throw in a monster to cause destruction and panic and then have a cast of likeable human characters to fight or flee from the beast. Bam! Movie over. That’s what Cloverfield and the 1998 Godzilla reboot did. Then why does nobody…
Revolving around an alien race called Souls, these particular extraterrestrial parasites inhibit Earth and assimilate its inhabitants. The central focus of the novel, however, is on a particular human host named Melanie Stryder, a young girl who refuses to cooperate with Wanderer – the particular parasitic alien soul inserted into her – essentially illustrating a…
