After four weeks at the top of the box office Deadpool & Wolverine has been dethroned by newcomer Alien: Romulus. Alien: Romulus is the new queen at the top of the box office, earning and estimated $41.5 million dollars over the weekend domestically and another $66.7 million internationally, for a healthy opening of $108.2 million globally Deadpool & Wolverine dropped …
Forty-five years after “Alien” launched horror into space, little hasn’t been analyzed about its hissing xenomorphs, face-huggers or the lingering untrustworthiness of “synthetic persons.” These recycle endlessly through a franchise that is ever expanding, like space itself, but the metaphorical power of the 1979 original and its 1986 sequel, “Aliens,” still inspire appreciative analyses all these decades later. “Romulus” is …
