Category: Alien

The Future of Alien: Earth Season 2 Has Been Decided

Executives at FX and Disney have decided:

PREDATOR: BADLANDS Early Reactions are … Fantastic

Predator: Badlands Early Reactions are … Fantastic

Dan Trachtenberg also gave us Prey back in 2022.

Sigourney Weaver is Talking About a New ALIEN Film

Sigourney Weaver is Talking About a New Alien Film

Interesting news from the world of Alien:

Check out this “Bootleg” Synopsis of ALIEN

Check out this “Bootleg” Synopsis of Alien

I saw this synopsis and it is hilarious. And that last line … !

More Trailers for Upcoming Movies and Shows

Predator: Badlands, Black Phone 2, Alien: Earth, and Megan 2.0 teasers/trailers, all collected in one place, here at Life After Gateway.

Horror/Sci-Fi/Suspense Influences on TSJ Before the Age of Ten

November 12, 2020 • 2 Comments

Horror/Sci-Fi/Suspense Influences on TSJ Before the Age of Ten

I recently published a blog piece celebrating my fiftieth year on the planet. In the article, I wrote about the books I read as a child under the age of ten. The intention was twofold: to inform people about the books that inspired a young boy to take on the monumental goal of writing science fiction thrillers (a task which took decades to achieve), and to implore parents to always buy books for their children.

TSJ Reviews BioWare’s ANTHEM

March 12, 2019 • 0 Comments

TSJ Reviews BioWare’s ANTHEM

It’s no secret that for BioWare there’s a lot riding on this game. After MASS EFFECT: ANDROMEDA many saw ANTHEM as the new IP that would reinvigorate BioWare. The company and hundreds of game developers spent six years on ANTHEM, and bugs and critical reviews have plagued it following its initial release as a demo. I played the demo and had fun, however, so I purchased the game. There were enough bright spots in the demo to encourage me to trust BioWare.

John Carpenter’s Contribution to Speculative and Science Fiction Film

This week, speculative fiction blog Aurelia Leo published an article I wrote on legendary SF director John Carpenter. Over the decades I’ve searched out any property I could find that Carpenter has directed. Find my thoughts on many of his SF films at the link, including THEY LIVE, PRINCE OF DARKNESS, THE THING, and ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK.

TSJ’s “My Favorite Things Related to the Oceans”

Over at Speculative Chic they’ve posted an article I wrote about the Science Fiction books and movies that I love most featuring the oceans. They helped inspire me to write THE WAR BENEATH. Some of them are novels from the tail end of the Golden Age of Science Fiction.

TSJ’s List of the Best Science Fiction Movies of the 1970’s

August 27, 2018 • 2 Comments

The Best Science Fiction Movies of the 1970’s

I should clarify that a film’s presence on this blog post is entirely subjective based on my experiences growing up. These were my creative formative years, during which I was discovering genre books, television shows, and movies. I was born in 1970, so really the 80’s were my true introduction to Science Fiction Horror, Thriller and Adventure — books by Asimov and Crichton and films by Cameron, Spielberg, Carpenter, and Verhoeven — but the 1970’s played a huge role in my love for the genre. Detroit Channel 7 broadcast most of the films I saw. Many had poor effects, but the stories were so powerful and the actors so committed that the movies rose above the rest of the stories that were available at the time. The themes were relevant, the plots compelling and interesting, all the base human emotions like revenge and lust and greed and hate were on full display, they spoke of issues that people dealt with every day, and they featured powerful scores and incredible directing. They were gripping.