list/discuss/rate - your recently watched movies

Alien: Romulus It's set between the first and second movies. It's not bad and has all the Alien tropes you'd expect. But it has no feeling or depth. The main lead and the guy who plays the android are OK, but generally the cast are dull. When you think of the original film it was mainly character driven with very little seen of the actual intruder. A shame as it could have been really good instead of just acceptable. I'll never watch it again, unlike the first 2 movies which I've seen many times - I think that sums up this latest effort 6/10

Sputnik

Fascinating for its depiction of the organs of Soviet Russia during the early '80s and machinations of the space program, Sputnik is a careful, deliberate, highly specific and comfortably creepy thriller involving a cosmonaut recently returned from space and the non-Earth entity living inside him deriving nourishment from his body and consciousness from his mind.   The lovely Oksana Akinshina plays a young neurologist attempting to draw out the creature and communicate with it before things go terribly wrong.   Recommended for its mood, photography, color palette, suspense, music, cast, and slow but steady pace, I thoroughly enjoyed Sputnik more for its atmosphere & insights into Soviet bowels than its value as a science fiction film.