The Story Behind The Shot: Ripley and Newt vs the Facehuggers in ‘Aliens’
Ingeniously designed nightmare fuel.
Aliens
The movie Bill Paxton called the most important of his career: “Significant in different ways”
This little-seen gem changed everything for Paxton.
How Mike Myers getting fired from a comedy troupe got an actor cast in James Cameron’s ‘Aliens’
The domino effect in full force.
The classic movie everyone told James Cameron not to make: “Absolutely do not do this film”
He was right, as usual.
“I shamelessly cribbed from their style”: the filmmakers who shaped James Cameron’s success
Cameron took inspiration from two main sources in his early screenwriting days.
“You’ve got to do something different”: the films Paul WS Anderson called “genius movies”
It’s doubtful he’ll make one anywhere near as good.
The director who inspired a “generation” of sci-fi fans, according to James Cameron
“There have been so many films that stylistically have derived.”