TAKE ONE Magazine 📽️🎞️Aug 21, 2024
Today, #TheXenopod is back! @simonxix & @JimGR dive into #AlienRomulus: what doesn't work, what horrifying moral abominations are in it, and why bridging the Scott-Cameron divide may be doomed. Stay tuned for a written review also. On all pod platforms: https://takeonecinema.net/thexenopod/alien-romulus/
Episode 10: ALIEN: ROMULUS (2024) | TAKE ONE

You wake in a bleak new mining colony and what they’re mining is the remnants of the Alien franchise. We discuss the new Alien franchise film, ALIEN: ROMULUS, getting into what we enjoyed, what we didn’t enjoy, and how the film struggles to situate itself within the franchise’s recurrent Scott-Cameron dichotomy. Content warning: body horror, … Continue reading Episode 10: ALIEN: ROMULUS (2024) →

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Jim Ross 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🎞Jan 4, 2024
Just realised I never shared my Alien series ranking list on Letterboxd now that we’ve concluded #TheXenopod on @TAKEONECinema. Enjoy here, as me making lists is rare, and ranked lists even rarer: boxd.it/porM6.
TAKE ONE Magazine 📽️🎞️Dec 27, 2023
We hope 2024 will see us doing more limited-run podcasts, but @simonxix and @JimGR have finished our first one. The full run of #TheXenopod is now available. Listen at https://takeonecinema.net/thexenopod/ or go there to get to your preferred podcast source.
The Xenopod | Podcasts | TAKE ONE

The Xenopod is a new podcast series contextualising the Alien franchise, looking at its place in film history, its trajectory, and how it develops.

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TAKE ONE Magazine 📽️🎞️Nov 29, 2023
Here we have it - @simonxix & @JimGR reach the end of the Alien #films for now. Check out their (surprising?) thoughts on #ALIEN: COVENANT, ahead of a wrap-up episode of #TheXenopod just before Xmas. Link below to listen or onward to your favoured #podcast app: https://takeonecinema.net/thexenopod/alien-covenant/
Episode 8: ALIEN: COVENANT (2017) | TAKE ONE

You’ve reached the end of your journey at last. As you touch down on the planet that you’ll colonise as your new home, you feel calm. Until you’re suddenly ambused from the field of cultivated wheat by critical appraisal of ALIEN: COVENANT offering insight into what elements of this best-of of the Alien franchise don’t … Continue reading Episode 8: ALIEN: COVENANT (2017) →

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SimonSep 27, 2023
A brand new episode of #TheXenopod out today where we discuss how ALIENS VS. PREDATOR: REQUIEM has a gross conservative undercurrent that targets the most vulnerable groups in society for horrific violence. Available on all podcast platforms now. https://takeonecinema.net/thexenopod/avpr/
Episode 6: ALIENS VS. PREDATOR: REQUIEM | TAKE ONE

You crash in the Colorado forest and discover a small town overrun with people discussing ALIENS VS. PREDATOR: REQUIEM and why its gratuitous nastiness and deeply conservative undercurrents make this the most unpleasant film so far in the Alien franchise. Is there any interesting critical insight to pull from this literally and metaphorically dark film? … Continue reading Episode 6: ALIENS VS. PREDATOR: REQUIEM →

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TAKE ONE Magazine 📽️🎞️Sep 27, 2023
It's new #TheXenopod day at TAKE ONE! @simonxix & @JimGR scrape the bottom of the franchise's barrel with #AliensVsPredatorRequiem. Listen to them (over?)analyse the film's nasty and unpleasant conservatism, and ridiculously dark tone and visuals: https://takeonecinema.net/thexenopod/avpr/
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Episode 6: ALIENS VS. PREDATOR: REQUIEM | TAKE ONE

You crash in the Colorado forest and discover a small town overrun with people discussing ALIENS VS. PREDATOR: REQUIEM and why its gratuitous nastiness and deeply conservative undercurrents make this the most unpleasant film so far in the Alien franchise. Is there any interesting critical insight to pull from this literally and metaphorically dark film? … Continue reading Episode 6: ALIENS VS. PREDATOR: REQUIEM →

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Jim Ross 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🎞Aug 23, 2023
I and @simonxix are reluctantly wading into the murky waters of Alien vs. Predator for this month's #TheXenopod from @TAKEONECinema. It was a more interesting film to talk about than watch, especially in the context of what has come before and since: https://takeonecinema.net/thexenopod/avp/
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Episode 5: ALIEN VS. PREDATOR (2004) | TAKE ONE

You drill down into the Antarctic ice and discover what you’ve been doggedly searching for: an ever-shifting pyramid containing critical analysis of ALIEN VS. PREDATOR. Ancient hieroglyphics discuss why the film doesn’t work, how its white supremacist premise fits into racialised readings of the Alien films, and its weird contested position as a paratext in … Continue reading Episode 5: ALIEN VS. PREDATOR (2004) →

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TAKE ONE Magazine 📽️🎞️Aug 23, 2023

Today brings the latest edition of #TheXenopod on #AlienVsPredator: @simonxix & @JimGR on why the #film doesn't work, how its white supremacist premise fits into racialised readings of the films, and its weird contested position as a #paratext in the multi/#transmedia franchise.
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Episode 5: ALIEN VS. PREDATOR (2004) | TAKE ONE

You drill down into the Antarctic ice and discover what you’ve been doggedly searching for: an ever-shifting pyramid containing critical analysis of ALIEN VS. PREDATOR. Ancient hieroglyphics discuss why the film doesn’t work, how its white supremacist premise fits into racialised readings of the Alien films, and its weird contested position as a paratext in … Continue reading Episode 5: ALIEN VS. PREDATOR (2004) →

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TAKE ONE Magazine 📽️🎞️Jul 27, 2023
A snippet from this month’s #TheXenopod. @simonxix’s disappointment is palpable, and @JimGR is relieved and swearily smug. Available now!
Jim Ross 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🎞Jul 4, 2023
Loved doing the episode of #TheXenopod (follow @TAKEONECinema!) on #AlienResurrection. Not to give the game away, but it's the first of the franchise thus far I feel is unabashedly Bad™ (albeit with some decent fleeting moments). Episode isn't out until a few weeks time, but check out the ones we've done so far!