The Xenopod
@thexenopod.bsky.social
TAKE ONE presents The Xenopod: the podcast where we watch and analyse all the Alien franchise films in release order.
🔗 https://takeonecinema.net/thexenopod/
🔗 https://takeonecinema.net/thexenopod/
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Reminder that my colleague @jimgr.bsky.social and I released a whole podcast miniseries critically analysing (mostly from a leftist perspective) the entire Alien film franchise (including the 'vs. Predator' films). Listen now! @thexenopod.bsky.social takeonecinema.net/thexenopod/
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.
takeonecinema.net
February 1, 2024 at 10:32 AM
Reminder that my colleague @jimgr.bsky.social and I released a whole podcast miniseries critically analysing (mostly from a leftist perspective) the entire Alien film franchise (including the 'vs. Predator' films). Listen now! @thexenopod.bsky.social takeonecinema.net/thexenopod/
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Since everyone is into xenomorphs again please let me show you my series I did called “Stupid Xenomorphs” where I try to come up with the stupidest possible animal for an alien to parasitize.
August 17, 2024 at 2:01 AM
Since everyone is into xenomorphs again please let me show you my series I did called “Stupid Xenomorphs” where I try to come up with the stupidest possible animal for an alien to parasitize.
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In honor of Alien: Romulus and the impending spooky season, it's time to dust off this Howell Dawdy/Flop House collaboration and your new favorite song -- SEXY XENOMORPH.
youtu.be/2agXKbgSprI?...
youtu.be/2agXKbgSprI?...
The Flop House - Sexy Xenomorph
Music by Howell Dawdy’s Fast Track and The Flop House podcast! This video is actually made up of around 80 gifs, each of which I animated frame by frame. Whew.
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August 13, 2024 at 3:17 PM
In honor of Alien: Romulus and the impending spooky season, it's time to dust off this Howell Dawdy/Flop House collaboration and your new favorite song -- SEXY XENOMORPH.
youtu.be/2agXKbgSprI?...
youtu.be/2agXKbgSprI?...
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I've seen lots of people revisiting ALIEN: COVENANT on Letterboxd ahead of the new Alien franchise release and discovering, as we did on @thexenopod.bsky.social, that it's actually a banger. takeonecinema.net/thexenopod/a...
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 b...
takeonecinema.net
August 13, 2024 at 8:08 AM
I've seen lots of people revisiting ALIEN: COVENANT on Letterboxd ahead of the new Alien franchise release and discovering, as we did on @thexenopod.bsky.social, that it's actually a banger. takeonecinema.net/thexenopod/a...
#AlienDay this year marks one year since we started The Xenopod. You can go back and listen to our critical analyses of every film in the Alien franchise, available on all podcast platforms.
April 26, 2024 at 2:05 PM
#AlienDay this year marks one year since we started The Xenopod. You can go back and listen to our critical analyses of every film in the Alien franchise, available on all podcast platforms.
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The final cover for my upcoming Alien: Isolation book, which is being published this summer in the UK/Europe and autumn in the US/Canada.
January 22, 2024 at 9:55 AM
The final cover for my upcoming Alien: Isolation book, which is being published this summer in the UK/Europe and autumn in the US/Canada.
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This has been one of my favourite podcasts of 2023. Definitely recommend to all alien and film lovers. Although @simonxix.com is WAY off piste regarding covenant
A festive surprise episode of The Xenopod! In this final (for now) episode of the podcast, our hosts reflect on their journey through the Alien franchise, rank (@jimgr.bsky.social under duress) the Alien films, and look to the future of the franchise. Available on all podcast platforms!
December 27, 2023 at 7:02 PM
This has been one of my favourite podcasts of 2023. Definitely recommend to all alien and film lovers. Although @simonxix.com is WAY off piste regarding covenant
A festive surprise episode of The Xenopod! In this final (for now) episode of the podcast, our hosts reflect on their journey through the Alien franchise, rank (@jimgr.bsky.social under duress) the Alien films, and look to the future of the franchise. Available on all podcast platforms!
December 27, 2023 at 12:05 PM
A festive surprise episode of The Xenopod! In this final (for now) episode of the podcast, our hosts reflect on their journey through the Alien franchise, rank (@jimgr.bsky.social under duress) the Alien films, and look to the future of the franchise. Available on all podcast platforms!
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everyone is woken up too early
there’s a visitor nobody wants
dinner is total chaos
Alien is a Christmas film
there’s a visitor nobody wants
dinner is total chaos
Alien is a Christmas film
December 15, 2023 at 9:45 AM
everyone is woken up too early
there’s a visitor nobody wants
dinner is total chaos
Alien is a Christmas film
there’s a visitor nobody wants
dinner is total chaos
Alien is a Christmas film
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Roz Kaveney's writing on the Alien films was so important for our research on @thexenopod.bsky.social. She's an incredible writer and cultural theorist.
ICYMI: I got to profile Roz Kaveney, a poet, a novelist, a groundbreaking activist, and someone who is just really great at telling a story: xtramagazine.com/power/activi...
Roz Kaveney on a lifetime of fighting for trans rights | Xtra Magazine
The writer, poet and anti-TERF activist reflects on half a century of fighting for trans rights
xtramagazine.com
December 2, 2023 at 1:42 PM
Roz Kaveney's writing on the Alien films was so important for our research on @thexenopod.bsky.social. She's an incredible writer and cultural theorist.
Tomorrow @simonxix.com and @jimgr.bsky.social's journey through the Alien franchise concludes with our episode on Ridley Scott's ALIEN: COVENANT. Catch-up on all episodes at @takeonecinema.net and tune in tomorrow for the last film (but not the last ep) in the series. takeonecinema.net/thexenopod/
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.
takeonecinema.net
November 28, 2023 at 12:03 PM
Tomorrow @simonxix.com and @jimgr.bsky.social's journey through the Alien franchise concludes with our episode on Ridley Scott's ALIEN: COVENANT. Catch-up on all episodes at @takeonecinema.net and tune in tomorrow for the last film (but not the last ep) in the series. takeonecinema.net/thexenopod/
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It’s Halloweeeeen! 🎃👻 And while not everything from me today is spooky, there is a distinct horror flavour in the air.
To begin! My Ridley Scott exploration for @filmstories.bsky.social continues with 1979’s seminal #Alien. What more is there to be said? I had a go filmstories.co.uk/features/rid...
To begin! My Ridley Scott exploration for @filmstories.bsky.social continues with 1979’s seminal #Alien. What more is there to be said? I had a go filmstories.co.uk/features/rid...
Ridley Scott revisited: Alien, and the personal touches that made it a classic
In his second feature film, Ridley Scott helped birth an iconic monster. We look at the personal history the filmmaker brought to Alien.
filmstories.co.uk
October 31, 2023 at 8:20 AM
It’s Halloweeeeen! 🎃👻 And while not everything from me today is spooky, there is a distinct horror flavour in the air.
To begin! My Ridley Scott exploration for @filmstories.bsky.social continues with 1979’s seminal #Alien. What more is there to be said? I had a go filmstories.co.uk/features/rid...
To begin! My Ridley Scott exploration for @filmstories.bsky.social continues with 1979’s seminal #Alien. What more is there to be said? I had a go filmstories.co.uk/features/rid...
Tomorrow The Xenopod returns to Ridley Scott's vision of the Alien franchise with 2012's PROMETHEUS. Subscribe and it will land in your podcast app tomorrow and you can catch up on previous episodes at @takeonecinema.net. takeonecinema.net/thexenopod/
October 24, 2023 at 12:45 PM
Tomorrow The Xenopod returns to Ridley Scott's vision of the Alien franchise with 2012's PROMETHEUS. Subscribe and it will land in your podcast app tomorrow and you can catch up on previous episodes at @takeonecinema.net. takeonecinema.net/thexenopod/
For your calendars, this puts our schedule for the rest of the year's episodes at:
25th October: PROMETHEUS
29th November: ALIEN: COVENANT
27th December: wrap-up episode
25th October: PROMETHEUS
29th November: ALIEN: COVENANT
27th December: wrap-up episode
Yesterday I edited the final (for now!) episode of @thexenopod.bsky.social, a podcast where @jimgr.bsky.social and I watched and critiqued all the Alien franchise films. A journey of many ups and downs.
October 12, 2023 at 9:10 AM
For your calendars, this puts our schedule for the rest of the year's episodes at:
25th October: PROMETHEUS
29th November: ALIEN: COVENANT
27th December: wrap-up episode
25th October: PROMETHEUS
29th November: ALIEN: COVENANT
27th December: wrap-up episode
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An underrated Alien scare it's easy to forget about after you've seen it a million times and know how everything works is when Harry Dean Stanton lifts up his face to cool off in the dripping water and it's supposed to make audiences worry that acid from the creature is going to rain down on him
October 6, 2023 at 1:25 PM
An underrated Alien scare it's easy to forget about after you've seen it a million times and know how everything works is when Harry Dean Stanton lifts up his face to cool off in the dripping water and it's supposed to make audiences worry that acid from the creature is going to rain down on him
Tomorrow, the Alien Franchise Christmas movie that isn't set at Christmas...
September 26, 2023 at 1:45 PM
Tomorrow, the Alien Franchise Christmas movie that isn't set at Christmas...
A handy guide to the Alien franchise universe that reflects what we've been discussing about the franchise in the last few episodes. From: Heinze, Rüdiger. 2015. ‘“This Makes No Sense At All”: Heterarchy in Fictional Universes’. doi.org/10.5250/stor....
September 19, 2023 at 1:17 PM
A handy guide to the Alien franchise universe that reflects what we've been discussing about the franchise in the last few episodes. From: Heinze, Rüdiger. 2015. ‘“This Makes No Sense At All”: Heterarchy in Fictional Universes’. doi.org/10.5250/stor....
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We've recorded a new episode of @thexenopod.bsky.social on ALIENS VS. PREDATOR: REQUIEM and I'm astonished that we managed to have such a fascinating and far-reaching conversation about such a gross, little movie. In your podcast apps on 27th September.
September 11, 2023 at 3:41 PM
We've recorded a new episode of @thexenopod.bsky.social on ALIENS VS. PREDATOR: REQUIEM and I'm astonished that we managed to have such a fascinating and far-reaching conversation about such a gross, little movie. In your podcast apps on 27th September.
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the movie ALIENS: hey check out this allegory for the failures of the vietnam war
every video game based on ALIENS: the vietnam war went great and kicked ass probably
every video game based on ALIENS: the vietnam war went great and kicked ass probably
September 6, 2023 at 10:59 PM
the movie ALIENS: hey check out this allegory for the failures of the vietnam war
every video game based on ALIENS: the vietnam war went great and kicked ass probably
every video game based on ALIENS: the vietnam war went great and kicked ass probably
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Last night I finally finished writing my Alien: Isolation book. Turns out writing 70,000 words about a single game, even one you really love, is hard work. If anyone's into the game, horror games in general, or Ridley Scott's Alien, you might dig it. You can pre-order a hardback copy here.
Perfect Organism by Andy Kelly on Unbound
An Alien: Isolation Companion
unbound.com
August 21, 2023 at 9:31 AM
Last night I finally finished writing my Alien: Isolation book. Turns out writing 70,000 words about a single game, even one you really love, is hard work. If anyone's into the game, horror games in general, or Ridley Scott's Alien, you might dig it. You can pre-order a hardback copy here.
We're a podcast where @simonxix.com and @jimgr.bsky.social watch and critique all the Alien franchise films in release order. Our latest episode on ALIEN VS. PREDATOR is out on all podcast platforms. We talk about its colonialist issues, its paratextual position, and why we do care about who wins.
August 29, 2023 at 8:48 AM
We're a podcast where @simonxix.com and @jimgr.bsky.social watch and critique all the Alien franchise films in release order. Our latest episode on ALIEN VS. PREDATOR is out on all podcast platforms. We talk about its colonialist issues, its paratextual position, and why we do care about who wins.