12 posts tagged ‘ridley scott’
Gladiator II Is Kind of a Comedy
Vulture,
What, like the fall of Rome isn’t a little silly?
Noah Hawley's Alien prequel show is just going to skip past all that Prometheus stuff, thanks
AV Club,
Our condolences to Michael Fassbender and the makeup-slathered husk of Guy Pierce this week, as Fargo’s Noah Hawley has stated that he has no interest in using multiple major elements from Ridley Scott’s prequel film Prometheus in his upcoming Alien TV show. Read more...
Noah Hawley's Alien Show Plans to Keep Things Simple
Gizmodo,
For the last few years now, all we’ve really known of Noah Hawley’s upcoming Alien show is exactly that, and that it’ll be more about the corporate side of the horror franchise. As a prequel, it’s got its work cut out for it, since it has to explain things, an issue the series has previously run into before with Promet… Read more...
10 Classic Sci-Fi Performances Snubbed by the Oscars
Oscar nominations will be announced later this month, and Poor Things’ Emma Stone and Barbie’s Margot Robbie are all but guaranteed to be in the Best Actress race. Last year, Everything Everywhere All at Once swept three of the four acting categories. That suggests sci-fi and fantasy films, whose stars don’t always… Read more...
The week in film: Ridley Scott's movies ranked, Best Actress contenders revealed
It’s been nearly five decades since Ridley Scott’s first feature film, The Duellists, hit theaters, and now, even well into his 80s, the legendary filmmaker shows no signs of slowing. Napoleon, his latest feature, is as grand and intense as anything else in his long career, and it demonstrates just how adept Scott… Read more...
Let us all be thankful for Songbirds And Snakes at the Thanksgiving box office
As far as holiday “weekends” go, American Thanksgiving has always been a bit of a weird one, box-office-wise. On the one hand, you have lots of people with a decent amount of free time suddenly sitting in their laps; on the other, a ton of cultural messaging that suggests they should be spending said free time in the… Read more...
Napoleon Charges in Without a Plan
Ridley Scott’s new historical epic isn’t good, but at least it gives us an unforgettably weird Joaquin Phoenix performance.
Ridley Scott Cares Diddly Squat About France’s Feelings
The Napoleon director isn’t trying to win over the Académie des Beaux-Arts here.