Tag Archives: Ridley Scott

Defending my review of ‘The Martian’

Posted on October 4, 2015 by

I wrote my first movie review for The Martian and I wonder if I’ve done it some disservice, although I think it is defensible (from myself, not anyone else). In a wonderful interview of Salman Rushdie published in Mint recently, the … Continue reading →

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Metal, flesh and monochrome

Posted on May 16, 2014 by

Sunday Magazine May 18, 2014 Hans Rudolf Giger, the Swiss artist who conceived of the alien xenomorph in Ridley Scott’s Alien (1979), died on May 12 at the age of 84 in Zurich. Here was an artist who was not … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Alien, art, biomechanoid, Birth Machine, Eraserhead, Hans Rudolf Giger, Li Tobler, monochrome, Necronom IV, Necronomicon, posthumanism, Ridley Scott, xenomorph | Comments Off