This week - excitement at the return of Ridley Scott as our Alien adventure takes us up to 2012’s origin story, Prometheus. Can it live up to Scott’s spectacular original? Or is it actually quite a lot like Alien Vs Predator? To paraphrase Lawrence of Arabia, "Certainly it's bad... the trick is not minding that it's bad".

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The schedule for the Alien series is as follows!

• Alien - 14/10/24
• The shared history of Dune, Alien, and Blade Runner - 16/10/24 (Commander tier exclusive)
• Aliens - 21/10/24
• Alien 3 - 28/10/24
• Alien Versus Predator - 30/10/24 (Commander tier exclusive)
• Alien Resurrection - 4/11/24
• Prometheus - 11/11/24
• Blade Runner - 13/11/24 (Commander tier exclusive)
• Alien Covenant - 18/11/24
• Alien Romulus - 25/11/24

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