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Passengers (2016)
Passengers (2016)
2016 | Action, Drama, Sci-Fi
Definitely one of my favorite movies! It was nice to see a space movie without actually having any aliens in it. I love the main cast. Makes you wonder what you would do if you were put in the same situation. This movie is best watched on a huge screen in the dark.
  
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Dave Maclean recommended Chariots of the Gods in Books (curated)

 
Chariots of the Gods
Chariots of the Gods
3.0 (1 Ratings)
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"I was obsessed with the mysterious as a child – UFOs, Bigfoot, ghosts – anything weird or spooky. The book is a controversial idea to say the least: that aliens came down from a secret planet in our solar system and started messing around with the genetics of pre-human monkey-folk and building pyramids."

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Cell (2016)
Cell (2016)
2016 | Horror
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5.1 (7 Ratings)
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Oh god I wish I hadn't seen it. I think I've said before that Stephen King things I've seen feel like they've got to a point and discovered that they needed to end... and that's when... BOOM... aliens! This film felt like it was going quite well until the end... surprise surprise.
  
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Aliens: The Female War
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4.0 (1 Ratings)
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The third book in Dark Horse's spin-off series of novels and comics to include Billie and Wilks, this also throws Ripley into the mix, and finishes the story first began in [b:Aliens: Earth Hive|343281|Aliens Earth Hive|Steve Perry|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1366133734s/343281.jpg|333628] and continued in [b:Aliens: Nightmare Asylum|20873|Aliens Nightmare Asylum|Steve Perry|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1388857061s/20873.jpg|22061]. Wheres the 1979 film 'Alien' had a single Alien stalking the crew of the Nostromo after they picked up the transmission, with the 1986 film 'Aliens' then introducing the concept of the Alien Queen, this extrapolates even further than that with the introduction of an Alien Queen Mother providing the deus ex machina for the plot.

Talking of the plot: this is maybe a bit slower than those previous two novels, with more emphasis on character development (I know, I know: is such a thing even possible in these types of books?).

As before, not going to set the literary world alight nor win any awards, but an enjoyable enough quick diversion for a day or two.