The good, the bad and the ugly: “Alien: Romulus”

Christian Peterson ECB Publishing, Inc. Introduction: “Alien: Romulus” was released to American audiences on Friday, Aug. 16, and is the seventh movie in the Alien franchise. The film takes place between “Alien” (1979) and “Aliens” (1986), the classic films that spawned the decades-long franchise. It follows a group of young space colonists, consisting of Rain (Cailee Spaeny), Andy (David Johnson), Tyler (Archie Renaux), Kay (Isabela Merced), Bjorn (Spike Fearn) and Navarro (Aileen Wu). The group, which lives in a mining colony and has never seen sunlight, takes a trip to an abandoned space station in hopes of finding a way to a better life. Instead, they meet the scariest c