The Review at the End of the Universe
Alien Day is once again upon us and Kneel Before Pod completes their journey through the Alien franchise with Alien: Covenant. The conversation covers the Xenomorph life cycle, fanservice and dumb ways to die.
Alien Day -April 26th or 4/26- is upon us once again and as tradition demands we deliver another special. The discussion covers messily explored ideas, the return of Ridley Scott and idiotic characters.
Ridley Scott tells the true life tail of the kidnapping of John Paul Getty III and the drama that ensued when a ransom demand was issues to his billionaire grandfather in All the Money in the World. I’ll start by addressing the production issues that this film had. Ridley Scott was under a tight deadline when…
2017 was another year of change for Kneel Before Blog. The biggest change was that we switched to a star rating system for film around halfway through the year. TV will continue to be rated out of 10 but films will be rated on a scale of 1-5 stars as is the accepted standard for…
Ridley Scott returns to the Alien franchise with a film that doubles as a sequel to the much maligned Prometheus and a prequel to the celebrated Alien with Alien: Covenant. The Alien franchise is a strange one. It’s both important and iconic but there are only two universally recognised legitimately good films out of 7…
In honour of Alien Day (04/26 according to the way Americans write it) Angus takes over hosting duties and brings together his group of ultimate badasses in the form of Craig, Natalie and Chris to work their way through ALIENS, a film that many consider to be the best sequel of all time. The discussion…
Kneel Before Pod turned over hosting duties to Angus who led a discussion on Ridley Scott’s 1979 sci-fi horror classic, Alien. Joining him in his discussion was myself (Craig) and Natalie who helped cover the claustrophobic horror and white goo aspects of the film Show Notes The original trailer A fan made modern trailer For…
Luke Scott -Son of Ridley- takes a stab at the well travelled idea of artificial life and the implications of creating it. There’s a reason that fiction continues to come back to this idea and it’s a simple one. Basically it’s interesting and topical since the advances in computers and robotics are starting to make…
Ridley Scott’s The Martian adapts the 2011 Andy Weir novel of the same name where a botanist is forced to find a way to survive on the desolate planet after he is left for dead. With the recent announcement of the high possibility of flowing water on Mars, what better time to review this film? I…
