Ridley Scott's sci-fi horror action thriller, a 1979 blockbuster that kicked off the reign of the demonic Xenomorph aliens bent on total conquest through biological superiority in pop culture, Alien, is worth all the fanfare that it's cultivated over the decades and still enjoys today. Alien's successes lie in the strengths its modern iterations never seem to understand, that being the art of scarcity. Only through snapshots and eerie hints are we given glimmers, ounces of in

Every child growing up in the early 2000s likely has at least some faint knowledge of Pirates of the Caribbean, the franchise which singlehandedly revived cultural interest in the Golden Age of Piracy, albeit through a wildly inaccurate depiction of them in most cases. Taking place in a lawless Caribbean cornered by vast empires with glorious ambitions, Pirate Lords with ruthless attitudes and evil reputations, and ancient curses and mystical, supernatural elements lurking be

Recently, I watched yet another movie as quarantine's insanity continues creeping through my household, controlling my mind, corrupting my sensation of time, making every day seem so intrinsically identical in every facet and manner. Only receiving snippets of the outside world through scattered digital news, with barely anyone in the neighborhood exiting their homes save for physical exercise occasionally. Indeed, this COVID-19 is taking a toll... But it provides me free tim