079 - Alien: Covenant

In the last episode of this season we close off the Toy Story trilogy. Logline: Before Andy leaves for college, his toys are mistakenly delivered to a day care centre. Woody convinces the other toys that they were not dumped and leads them on an expedition back home.

We are skipping Alphadog and going straight to Toy Story 2 released in 1999 starring Tom Hanks, Tim Allen and Joan Cusack. Logline: When Woody is kidnapped by a greedy toy collector and is nowhere to be found, Buzz and his friends set out to rescue him. However, Woody gets tempted by the idea of becoming immortal in a museum.

We travel back in time to 1995 and watch Toy Story through the eyes of our younger selves. Logline: Andy's favourite toy, Woody, is worried that after Andy receives his birthday gift, a new toy called Buzz Lightyear, his importance may get reduced. He thus hatches a plan to eliminate Buzz.

We god damn near loose our noose on this weeks episode - and we like it, we like smelling with it. Tune into our review of Roman Polanski's Chinatown starring Jack Nicholson and Faye Dunaway. Logline: Mrs Mulwray hires Detective Jake, who specializes in matrimonial cases, to spy on her husband, the builder of the city's water system. He finds himself in a web of deceit when Mr Mulwray dies.

M. Fortnight Shyamalan continues! Part 2: Signs starring Mel Gibson, Joaquin Phoenix and Rory Culkin. Logline: Father Graham Hess and his family migrate to a farmhouse that later becomes the site of strange crop circles that suggest the existence of alien life.

Welcome to what will go down in history as the best miniseries name: M. Fortnight Shyamalan - two weeks of M. Night movies in a row! Part 1: The Sixth Sense Logline: Malcolm Crowe, a child psychologist, starts treating a young boy, Cole, who encounters dead people and convinces him to help them. In turn, Cole helps Malcolm reconcile with his estranged wife.

We speeeend or spaahhhhhn some time with Vincent Gallo and Christina Ricci this week. Logline: Billy kidnaps a young dancer, Layla, and asks her to pretend to be his wife so that he can please his parents. While Layla is initially hesitant, she falls in love with him.

We set out simply wanting to watch the original Alien movie - 5 weeks later we've burned through the whole saga and have reached the last one. Released in 2017 Alien: Covenant directed Ridley Scott is his final word in the Franchise starring Michael Fassbender, Katherine Waterston and Danny McBride. Logline: The crew of a colony ship, Covenant, receive a radio transmission from a habitable planet. However, they encounter deadly aliens while investigating the planet and try to escape.

After a month lost in deep space we have finally arrived where we wanted to be all along. This week we discuss Ridley Scott's return to the Alien franchise in his 2012 sci-fi epic "Prometheus" starring Noomi Rapace, Michael Fassbender, Charlize Theron, Logan Marshall-Green, Idris Elba and Guy Pearce. Logline: After a clue to mankind's origins is discovered, explorers are sent to the darkest corner of the universe. Their different expectations take a toll on them when they find something unimaginable.

Part four of our Alien series is here. We travel 200 years into the future and somehow end up close to future Paris in Jean-Pierre Jennet's 1997 instalment of the Alien saga - Alien: Ressurection. Logline: Ripley 8, a human-alien hybrid clone, is aboard a vessel, Auriga, along with space pirates. However, when aliens invade Auriga, Ripley does her best to prevent them from reaching and destroying Earth.