“Well, we took a vote. Predator's cooler, right?” Our LV-RMP series, running through the combined Alien and Predator series, arrives at Shane Black’s 2018 sequel, the confusingly named The Predator. A military sniper (Boyd Holbrook) witnesses a runaway Yautja ship crash landing in a Mexican jungle, and barely escapes with his life and a rucksack... Continue Reading →
Episode 123: Alien: Covenant (2017) LV-RMP Series
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair. The LV-RMP series continues to explore the Ridley Scott sequel universe with 2017’s Alien: Covenant. The crew of an intergalactic colonisation vessel is jolted from hypersleep by a catastrophic freak event while it is under the control of the ship’s android, Walter (Michael Fassbender). Reluctant to return... Continue Reading →
Episode 110: Prometheus (2012) LV-RMP Series
LV-RMP Series Big things have small beginnings. Our LV-RMP series, where we explore every film in the Alien and Predator universe, finds director Ridley Scott making his long-awaited return to the genre, and franchise, that launched his illustrious career with 2012’s heady quasi-prequel Prometheus. A duo of young, ideologically divergent archeologists (Noomi Rapace, Logan Marshall-Green) believe... Continue Reading →
Episode 103: Predators (2010) LV-RMP Series
LV-RMP Series We're the monsters of our own world. In the latest entry in our LV-RMP series, we continue our chronological journey through the Alien and Predator universes with Nimród Antal’s 2010 back-to-basics jungle-set pursuit thriller Predators. Waking up mid-plummet, black ops mercenary Royce (Adrian Brody) is chaotically parachuted into a dense, mysterious forest, surrounded by... Continue Reading →
Episode 91: AVP: Alien vs. Predator (LV-RMP Series)
LV-RMP Series The enemy of my enemy... is my friend. Rewind’s LV-RMP series continues on with the long-awaited 2004 monster mashup AvP: Alien vs. Predator from director Paul W.S. Anderson. Billionaire industrialist Charles Bishop Weyland (Lance Henriksen) assembles a team of experts for a most mysterious mission - a voyage deep beneath an abandoned Antarctic whaling... Continue Reading →
Episode 82: Predator 2 (1990) LV-RMP SERIES
LV-RMP Series Want some candy? Our LV-RMP series continues on the Yautja trail as we swap the jungles of Val Verde for its concrete equivalent - the mean, sweaty streets of a near-future, heatwave-crazy Los Angeles for Stephen Hopkins' 1990 sequel Predator 2. Another imposing, grotesquely-mandibled intergalactic hunter has crashed to Earth in search of trophies,... Continue Reading →
Episode 68: Alien Resurrection (1997) LV-RMP SERIES
LV-RMP Series Welcome back to LV-RMP, our journey through the on-screen history of one of the greatest cinematic monsters ever conceived: the xenomorph. We’ve reached the conclusion of the original ‘Quadrilogy’ with director Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s gooey 1997 installment Alien Resurrection. 200 years after Ripley took her sacrificial dive into the smelter on Fury 161, scientists from... Continue Reading →
Episode 64: ALIEN³ (1992) LV-RMP SERIES
LV-RMP Series Welcome back to our trawl through the Alien universe! After starting back to front with gung-ho actioner Aliens followed by Ridley Scott's cerebral sci-fi chiller Alien, we're back in release order for David Fincher's divisive and dark Alien 3. Controversially stripping Ripley (Sigourney Weaver, now a producer with no small amount of clout) of... Continue Reading →
Episode 58: Alien (1979) LV-RMP SERIES
LV-RMP Series Continuing our journey through the ALIEN universe, the team backtrack from James Cameron's seminal 80s action sequel sci-fi classic Aliens, which (almost) all of the gang encountered first, to look back at Ridley (Wiggly) Scott's groundbreaking first film in the series. Our Matt has created, as well as this incredible splattery tribute to South... Continue Reading →
Episode 41: Aliens (1986) LV-RMP SERIES
Introduced by MattJames Cameron’s action-packed, balls-to-the-wall, Southern Comfort meets The Magnificent Seven follow up to Ridley Scott’s sci-fi horror classic, Alien, was first released around this time in the summer of '86. I was about 9-years-old, like Newt, when I first saw Aliens on television, and I must’ve been completely obsessed by the time I... Continue Reading →
