Why Pit 'Alien' Against 'Aliens' When Ripley is Great in Both?
Ripley is a great character because she serves two distinct, but rewarding, purposes in the original film and the sequel.

Lou Wells has hit rock bottom after a promising start to her Hollywood career. Now broke and aimless, she reluctantly accepts a plane ticket from her estranged father, Rory to return home to South Australia’s ruggedly beautiful Kangaroo Island. As years of unresolved tension start to resurface, the reunion turns even more complicated when Lou and her sister Freya learn about Rory’s secret.
Ripley is a great character because she serves two distinct, but rewarding, purposes in the original film and the sequel.
Not every film can make a shopping mall feel both magical and menacing, but Forbidden Fruits challenges that.
Gritty and bleak are the best words to describe this film. There’s nothing happy about it.
Laggies is a fantastic movie, filled with down-to-earth characters, transcendent themes, and witty comedy
This current year, as well as the past several, has seen a slowly building increase in something the horror genre has required for quite a while in this critic's opinion...originality. I've stated before that I am very hard to please when it comes to this vein of the film industry's offerings, always leaning more towards that which sends chills through my very being in lieu of buckets of blood and gore.
This 2024 musical film is based on the Broadway show and the 2004 film of the same name with major differences.