Alien Covenant is a perfect example of making a plan and sticking with it, because if you don’t you may be infected by an alien organism that will explode out of your chest. Graphic, I know, but informative, right? The latest installment in the Alien franchise picks up sometime after Prometheus and continues to pursue the critical question that was posed in the previous film: who created life? An intergalactic colonial expedition comes to face to face with their worst nightmare. It’s ironic how a mission to preserve life results in so much death.

Fifteen years after the events of Prometheus, a colony ship named Covenant is bound for a remote planet with thousands of colonist and embryos when they are struck by a neutrino burst (think of it as a power space storm) which damages the ship as well as results in the death of several colonists as well as members of the crew, including the ship’s captain (James Franco). Thrust into the leadership role, Christopher Oram (Billy Crudup) finds himself overwhelmed by his new position and dissent among the crew.

Director Doug Liman has been a director whose career I’ve enjoyed following since I was in high school and first saw Swingers. It was one of those cool independent films that appeared in the mid-90’s when independent films were all the rage.  A couple years later he did the film Go which I felt beautifully captured the rave culture that had taken the states by storm but the film was quickly overlooked.  Then he got his big break with The Bourne Identity and as his career expanded to Mr. and Mrs. Smith so did the budgets ie: Edge of Tomorrow. Now with the release of The Wall Liman seems to have gone back to his roots in a way in creating one of the most intimate and intense war films to hit the cinemas, despite its major release being set by Amazon Studios.

After being called out to a site where a group of contractors were attacked, two American soldiers are sent out to investigate the site.  When the film starts, Isaac (Aaron Taylor-Johnson) and Matthews (John Cena) have already been hidden and monitoring the site for more than 18 hours and have seen no movement and believe the site is secure, believing if there was a sniper he would have already left by this point.  It’s when the pair go to investigate the scene they discover that they are not alone in the process but men are wounded and separated.

So it finally happened; I found a Guy Ritchie film that I didn’t enjoy. I wasn’t expecting much from King Arthur: Legend of the Sword, but it is worth noting that I got even less than I expected. I know that sounds cruel, and I will admit that there were a few thing that I did enjoy, but the amount of things that went wrong versus what went right is not a close margin. Before we get into it fully, let me issue this disclaimer: the sword in the stone, which is known in the film as Excalibur, according to Arthurian legend is not really Excalibur, which is a different sword that Arthur was given after he became king.

Born into royalty, Arthur is the heir apparent to his father, King Uther's (Eric Bana) throne as well as his father’s sword, Excalibur (again, not the real Excalibur) until the king’s most trusted advisor, Vortigan (Jude Law), betrays Uther and usurps his throne and plots to kill young Arthur. Though he is killed, Uther manages to get his son to safety and prevent Vortigan from taking the sword, which becomes lodged in a stone and submerged at the bottom of the lake. Discovered alone, Arthur is taken in by the ladies of a local brothel, forgetting his past and birthright. However, a legend is whispered that one day the born king will return and end Vortigan’s reign.