Check out the latest movie reviews, news trailers. We have all the hottest and exclusive news on the movies you cant wait to seeRidley Scott returns to the universe he created in ALIEN with ALIEN COVENANT, the second chapter in a prequel trilogy that began with PROMETHEUS and connects. Pick up your copies of newrelease movies on DVD and Bluray at redbox. Redbox has all genres, including action, comedy, drama, family and horror, each week. With. Against his grandfathers orders, Ben Tennyson teams up with the daughter of an old enemy in order to prevent an alien infestation of earth. Ridley Scotts attempt to reboot Alien with new film Covenant works sort ofAlien Covenant is a well intended effort to breathe new life into a series approaching 4. Its a sequel to a prequel, never a graceful story form, but here its aimed at eliminating narrative missteps that have dogged other episodes of the nightmarish science fiction saga. Ridley Scotts gruesome masterpiece, a claustrophobic, cynical 1. Little Indians in a spaceship, enjoyed a smashing launch in 1. Seven years later, James Camerons Aliens, a revisionist war horror reboot adding a squad of space Marines to the mix, amped up the action without losing the storys gist. The series then spent three decades stumbling out of sequence and into a half dozen alternate universe story lines that satisfied approximately zero fans. Alien vs. Predator Please. Scotts own 2. Prometheus was idiocy in a visually striking style. Scotts newest, Covenant, is aimed at syncing with the brands chest bursting glory days. It does and it doesnt, giving us a stylish, oddly bookish monster movie told in the form of a macabre theological revenge story. Tech tycoon Peter Weyland uncredited Guy Pearce, whose mystery shrouded corporation has been a cornerstone of the franchise, reappears in a flashback opening. He is holding a philosophical discussion with David Michael Fassbinder, a new synthetic servant with shadowy secrets going on behind his eerily expressive eyes. Alert viewers may recall that in Prometheus David was assigned to space exploration for the origins of life after Weyland told a TED Talk audience that with the new ability to create cybernetic individuals indistinguishable from us, We are the gods now. In Covenant, David is all glassy eyed dispassion about his makers pretensions to greatness. You seek your creator. The New Alien Adventure Movie ' title='The New Alien Adventure Movie ' />I am looking at mine, he tells Weyland in a well mannered, morally ambiguous monotone. You will die. I will not. Soon were years ahead, in 2. Prometheus and in familiar territory. A space cruiser carries thousands of would be colonists and human embryos in cryo sleep toward a habitable planet. They receive care and protection by the latest android upgrade, Walter Fassbender again. QrsaV2hJ' alt='The New Alien Adventure Movie ' title='The New Alien Adventure Movie ' />Still, life in space is vulnerable. When a solar flare fries the ships hibernating captain James Franco in a 1. Stepping into the lead are Billy Crudups Oram, a religious man whose faith will be severely tested, and his second in command, Daniels Katherine Waterston playing a space gardener and Ellen Ripley lite. Rather than spend years traveling to their destination, the crew votes to drop a landing party including Walter on a promising nearby world that could host their pilgrims. The primeval space is presented with the kind of graphic grandeur that Scott can do so well. Entirely free of animal sounds, it must be an ideal site for humans to land their ark, right The Eden like landscape fits neatly into the films pondering of creation and Gods existence. In the words of one crew member, Its too good to be true. It is. Before you can say doomed expedition, paradise is quickly lost. Having survived a spaceship crash there, David is on hand to lead the visitors into a city filled with the corpses of Engineers the bald, pale creators of earthly life in Prometheus. Then bad microbes and flesh piercing beasties appear, annihilating the human explorers faster than redshirts on Star Trek. Rescue attempts fail, efforts to seal away dangerous creatures hit the skids and hope goes down swinging amid screaming, running, pandemonium and gore. The movie has a surprisingly academic tone for a pessimistic fever dream. Before the blood and bone fragments start spurting, it moves at a rather glacial pace, ruminating on Michelangelos statue of David, Entry of the Gods Into Valhalla from Richard Wagners Das Rheingold and Percy Bysshe Shelleys poem Ozymandias. Maya The Bee Movie Full Divx Movies. Each work looks in wonder at ruined kingdoms and fallen giants, themes that fit neatly into Covenants gloom and doom tone. Bonus points go to the unspoken allusion to Mary Shelley, whose Frankenstein underpins the film from beginning to end. Fassbender is petrifying playing twin variants of the pieced together creature, two cybernetic beings identical in appearance and entirely different in their programming. His ability to subtly imply invisible schemes is more interesting than the bland human characters and more sinister than the films menagerie of CGI ogres. Alien Covenant sets up the stage for yet another sequel Scott has threatened to make three more but I hope he ends it here. Its much less good than his original effort, far better than his other prequel. Its time to give it a rest.