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401. Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem – All-ien 2024 (#—)

Posted on November 30, 2024 by Darren

Hosted by Andrew Quinn, Darren Mooney and Jess Dunne, this week with special guest Billie Jean Doheny, 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, the Brothers Strause’s Alien vs. Predator: Requiem.

The peaceful community of Gunnison in Colorado finds its idyllic existence interrupted when a strange extraterrestrial vessel comes crashing to Earth in the woods at the edge of town. The unusual ship is carrying a dangerous cargo, but it also brings other outsid visitors to town. It turns out that there’s more than one sort of alien that the residents have to worry about.

At time of recording, it was not ranked on the list of the best or worst movies of all time on the Internet Movie Database.

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New Escapist Column! On the “Necessity” of the R-Rating for “Birds of Prey”…

Posted on February 24, 2020 by Darren

I published an In the Frame piece at Escapist Magazine last Friday, looking at the debate around the “R-rating” that Birds of Prey earned.

Following the film’s release, there’s been a lot of a debate around Birds of Prey, particularly in light of its box office performance. One of the more interesting arguments has been around the film’s age rating, with several pundits arguing that the film did not “need” to be rated R, that it could have been cut to a PG-13 movie without losing anything of value. This is an interesting argument, one that deserves a little interrogation. After all, the scenes which likely earned Birds of Prey its R-rating – certainly the scenes singled out as unnecessary by such critics – are essential to its identity. They make the film unique and distinct.

You can read the piece here, or click the picture below.