Okay, that went well, so let’s continue alphabetically and go on to Alien . How does the movie get us to believe, care, and invest in Rip...

I’ll also go back through the Checklists, archive their posts, and update them to the current list. Again, this is a lot of work for me w...

My new big-deal manager gushed about how much he loved my horror-thriller in order to keep me from signing with another guy, but then as s...

I’ve updated the Checklist road test for Alien and you can check it out here . Now let’s look at one of the new answers in more depth: ...

Yesterday, we looked at thriller, mystery/conspiracy, and action movies. The horror movie has much in common with all three, but it’s fun...

This movie somehow manages to be both an edge-of-your-seat nail-biter and a quiet, almost meditative tone-poem.   How does it pull that of...

Now updated to the sixth and final version of the checklist! The crew of a deep space freighter (Dallas, Ripley, Ash, Kane, Lambert, Pa...