The Aliens franchise has been a sorted mess of successes and failures.  Ridley Scott began the series with the classic Alien, in which a team in a commercial space-faring vessel starts being hunted by a terrifying creature.  James Cameron took the series…

With the Twilight movies racking up the big bills, studios are scrambling over each other trying to find the next big fantasy movie to satisfy the female demographic looking for escapist adventure.  We’ve had reenvisionings of Red Riding Hood,…