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Hosted by Andrew Quinn and Darren Mooney, The 250 is a (mostly) weekly trip through some of the best (and worst) movies ever made, as voted for by Internet Movie Database Users. New episodes are released every second Saturday at 6pm GMT, with the occasional bonus episode between them.

This week, James Cameron’s Aliens.

57 years after the destruction of the Nostromo, Ellen Ripley is found adrift in space. Her account of a strange encounter with a monstrous creature is met with ridicule and scorn, particularly considering the colonisation of planetoid LV-426, where Ripley claimed to have found the alien. However, when the colony suddenly falls silent, it becomes clear that Ripley may not be entirely free of her trauma.

At time of recording, it was ranked 64th on the list of the best movies of all time on the Internet Movie Database.

Show Notes:

• Recorded 23rd June 2016.
• Aliens at The Internet Movie Database.
• The IMDB 250 as it appeared at time of recordings.
• The Dissolve‘s roundtable discussion of the film, June 2015.
• Tasha Robinson at The Dissolve‘s look at the film’s approach to masculinity and femininity, June 2015.
• Walt Goodman at The New York Times‘ review of Aliens, July 1986.
• Time‘s interview with Sigourney Weaver, July 1986.
• Genevieve Valentine at The Dissolve‘s look at the film’s supporting cast, June 2015.
• Matt Zoller Seitz at RogerEbert.com on watching Aliens with a bunch of young kids, March 2015.
• James Cameron’s Starlog essay addressing various letters of complaint about Aliens, November 1992.
• Alien Series‘ rundown of Ridley Scott’s various plans for his own sequels to Alien, January 2014.
• The Dissolve‘s examination of the trouble transition from Aliens to Alien³, March 2015.
• Randy L’Officier’s interview with James Cameron and Gale Ann Hurd on the production of Aliens, 1986.
• Slash Film‘s interview with James Cameron about his proposed adaptation of Jurassic Park, September 2012.
• Jim Naureckas at eJumpCut‘s analysis of the Freudian themes of Aliens, April 1987.
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