Hosted by Andrew Quinn, Darren Mooney and Jess Dunne, this week with special guest Ethan Shattock, The 250 is a weekly trip through some of the best (and worst) movies ever made, as voted for by Internet Movie Database Users. New episodes are released Saturdays at 6pm GMT.
This week, Fede Álvarez’s Alien: Romulus.
On a backwater world, a group of young people make a desperate bid to escape the drudgery of their dreary lives. Identifying a seemingly abandoned corporate facility in orbit, the group decides to steal some equipment to help them journey to another system. Unfortunately, once they board the mysterious space station known only as “Romulus“, the gang discovers that they are not alone in the darkness.
At time of recording, it was not ranked on the list of the best television shows of all time on the Internet Movie Database.
Show Notes:
- Recorded 23rd August 2024.
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- Fede Álvarez talks to Deadline about how he came to direct Alien: Romulus, July 2024.
- Fede Álvarez talks to The Wrap about his dreams of directing an Alien sequel, August 2024.
- Borys Kit at The Hollywood Reporter announces plans for a new Alien movie “unconnected” to previous films, March 2022.
- Anthony Black writes at Film Stories about Neil Blomkamp’s long gestating plans to make a sequel to Aliens, February 2024.
- Anthony D’Alessandro at Deadline reports on plans to send Fede Álvarez’s Alien movie to Hulu, March 2022.
- Drew Taylor at The Wrap discusses the announcement that Prey will go straight to streaming, November 2021.
- Pamela McClintock and Aaron Couch at The Hollywood Reporter cover the announcement that Alien: Romulus will, in fact, release in theatres, June 2023.
- Fede Álvarez talks to Variety about how Alien: Romulus went from a streaming release to a theatrical release, August 2024.
- Lindsay Bahr at ABC News reports on the box office success of Alien: Romulus, August 2024.
- Patrick Frater at Variety reports on the unexpected box office success of Alien: Romulus in China, August 2024.
- Miles Surrey at The Ringer considers Fede Álvarez’s Evil Dead remake, April 2023.
- Fede Álvarez talks to The DGA about making The Girl in the Spider’s Web, November 2018.
- Richard Newby at The Hollywood Reporter considers The Girl in the Spider’s Web as a sequel to The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, November 2018.
- Fede Álvarez talks to Latina about writing the most recent Texas Chainsaw Massacre film, March 2022.
- Jack Wilhelmi at ScreenRant considers the key scene that Sam Raimi would remove from the original Evil Dead, December 2019.
- Fede Álvarez talks to Gizmodo about the decision to include that scene in his remake of Evil Dead, October 2012.
- Wired considers the use of sexual assault as a plot point in Don’t Breathe, September 2016.
- Maggie Stankiewicz at Dread Central considers the use of sexual violence and the importance of female agency in the films of Fede Álvarez, October 2022.
- Julius Miller at Los Angeles Magazine reflects on the highly sexual nature of the Dune popcorn bucket, March 2024.
- Gabriella Angelina at Out considers the highly sexualised Deadpool and Wolverine popcorn bucket, May 2024.
- Ridley Scott talks to Yahoo about how he considers “the beast is cooked” with regards to the Alien franchise, November 2014.
- Kevin Collier at NBC News considers the importance of artificial intelligence in the context of Hollywood’s actors’ strike, July 2023.
- Andrew Webster at The Verge considers Hollywood’s plans to replace actors with artificial intelligence duplicates, July 2023.
- Fede Álvarez talks to Deadline about how Alien: Romulus is a story about the “third world”, August 2024.
- PBS reports on the increasing belief that children will not be better off than their parents, October 2022.
- Andrew Van Dam at The Washington Post considers parents’ increased anxiety over the future awaiting their children, November 2023.
- Darren Mooney at The Escapist considers how spoiler culture has been weaponised as a marketing gimmick, November 2019.
- Seth Abramovitch at The Hollywood Reporter looks at the creation of Rook in Alien: Romulus, August 2024.
- Fede Álvarez talks to The Los Angeles Times about bringing back Ian Holm for Alien: Romulus, August 2024.
- Nicholas Barber at The BBC considers the controversy over using artificial intelligence to resurrect Ian Holm for Alien: Romulus, August 2024.
- Fede Álvarez talks to The Hollywood Reporter about the importance of using practical effects in Alien: Romulus, March 2024.
- Daniel John at Creative Bloq considers the heavy use of computer-generated imagery in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, July 2023.
- Nicholas G. Evans at The Conversation considers how billionaires have embraced “effective altruism” as a philosophy, April 2023.
- Alex Christian at The BBC explores the murky morality of “effective altruism”, October 2023.
- John Naughton at The Guardian considers the ruthless utilitarianism of the billionaire class, December 2022.
- Jack McCullough at Forbes considers the stereotype of the psychopathic chief executive officer, December 2019.
- Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic at NBC considers the prevalence of sociopathy and psychopathy among corporate leasers, April 2019.
- Darren Mooney at Second Wind considers the reduction of franchises like Alien to a collection of memes and images, August 2024.
- Daniel Balz at The Washington Post considers the cultural and political aftermath of the Dobbs decision, June 2023.
- Lydia Saad at Gallup looks at how support for abortion rights actually increased after Dobbs, June 2023.
- Darren Mooney at Second Wind considers the explosion of post-Dobbs cinema, August 2024.
- Fede Álvarez talks to Total Film about taking inspiration from Alien: Isolation in making Alien: Romulus, August 2024.
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