Week 10 Blog Midweeker!

Alright readers? SO we made it to week 10! Not bad going.

As a reward for making it through nine weeks of terrible-to-middling films, I thought a cool thing to do would be to watch something good to celebrate! But specifically I want to use the opportunity to watch something I’ve always meant to watch, but haven’t yet.

When I was a teenager I went through a phase of raiding charity shops for VHS tapes.* DVD was dominating the market and videos of all kinds were going dirt cheap- normally about 50p a go. It was result of this that I got to watch The Shawshank Redemption; one of my favourite films and widely agreed to be bloody excellent. However, I also ended up accumulating a large number of films which I never got around to watching, which is a shame! It’s so easy to just ignore anything new and coast on the things we already know we love or which don’t involve any real engagement. But I find when I do bother to try something new, it’s usually a food experience.

So yeah, every 10th week of the blog I’m going to watch and write about a film I haven’t seen but have always intended to. And this week that film will be everyone’s favourite Giger-ian nightmare: Alien.

But don’t worry faithful readers! I will still be applying the quote-unquote rigorous standards of the blog: If something sucks, I’ll point it out! But plenty of better critics than me have said that Alien is great so it probably mostly is. So please, join me on Sunday-they’re coming out of the walls!

-Tom

*Yeah I was a pretty cool teenager.