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Hundreds if not thousands of eggs. From Alien (1979) In 1979, what started as a simple monster movie gathered enough speed to become one of the key movie pictures of the century - Ridley Scott's Alien. The story was expanded on by David Cameron's Aliens in 1984 and then went downhill with Alien 3 and Alien Resurrection. A few years later Scott tried to remedy the third and fourth sequels and revive the story with Prometheus. Partly, he succeeded despite glaring holes in the movie. There are still places the story can take us and I would like to discuss some of them here. In the original we are led to a crashed derelict ship, the source of hundreds of alien eggs, emitting a warning signal. The Nostromo wakes up the crew and they go to investigate, which results in the birth of a few screams in space no one heard but everyone enjoyed the hell out of. The question here is: Why did the ship have so many eggs? Why was it only a few months from Earth? Where was it going? Why d...

Menacing guys to say the least... Joe Pesci in Goodfellas (left) and Casino (right). When George Carlin selects a baseball-bat-wielding Joe Pesci  ahead of God as the man to solve his problems, you know he's talking about balls. The job will be done. You can count on it. In fact, you can count the bodies. Joe Pesci gets it done. He sure did the job with two of my favourite cinema psychos: Martin Scorsese's Nicky Santoro and Tommy DeVito - the representations of the man Carlin is talking about, at least in part. There is a question brewing: what if, the two characters cross paths. What then? Santoro and DeVito are no non-sense, no half measures characters, hardened killers and bullies. They are both psychos. Any confrontation between them, say in the spirit of let's see 'who's the better gangster'  mano a mano , would probably end up in either one of them being stabbed like a hundred times and shot more than once or with someone having to spend time in th...