A young woman and her android brother battle xenomorphs in an abandoned research station. Seven films into this franchise, Alien: Romulus manages to be both terrifying and comforting; the audience revisiting their haunted childhood home, relieved to be tucked up in their old bed even if it does levitate. There is no comfort for our… Alien: Romulus Read More
Gwen 4 stars
Read my interviews with director William McGregor & star Eleanor Worthington-Cox. Despite its wailing winds and shrieking storms, and its central teenage girl, Gwen‘s horror is man-made: layers of threat where her family’s own weaponry (their links to the land itself) makes them targets, while being no match for their opponents’ power. Gwen – part folktale, part… Gwen Read More