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This week on The Collider.com Podcast, we're talking joined by Senior Editor Haleigh Foutch to talk about the Alien franchise. We focus primarily on Ridley Scott's 1979 original, why the film is so effective, what it says about horror movies today, the film's lasting impact, the strengths and weaknesses of the sequels and prequels, and more. We then move on to a spoiler-free discussion of a new movie, The Vast of Night, before closing out with Recently Watched. Click on the respective link to find us on iTunes. If you like the show, please leave …

The Vast of Night is an inventive and suspenseful night drop of spooky science fiction. Within it you'll find a Spielbergian love for sci-fi peppered with a twisted appreciation for negative space and the unknown.

The Vast of Night is a mystery that can't sustain itself. It's fine to try and build up to a big reveal, but along the way we need to be invested in more than just "the answer." Unfortunately, the script for The Vast of Night is wholly invested in two teenagers chasing down a mysterious signal, but fails to show interest in their interior lives, their wants, desires, or really any kind of conflict beyond, "Let's find out what this signal means." The film's saving grace is director Andrew Patterson, who gives his low-budget feature …

Amazon has released the first trailer for The Vast of Night, director Andrew Patterson's festival-buzzy debut about a UFO sighting over smalltown New Mexico in the 1950s. Written by James Montague and Craig W. Sanger, the film stars Sierra McCormick and Jake Horowitz as a switchboard operator and radio DJ who first discover the strange signal overhead, leading them down a rabbit hole of conspiracy and old-school sci-fi intrigue. Everything about The Vast of Night's drive-in B-movie vibe is familiar; those dang aliens can't stay away from low-population New Mexico towns, …