Almost Equal Sequels Part XX: Aliens

Franchises are not always obvious.  Who knew that taking the framework of 1958’s It: The Terror Beyond Space while mixing in some HR Giger artwork and then coating everything with KY jelly would result in such a hit with audiences?  But there was 20th Century Fox, suddenly sitting pretty with Alien’s sizeable box office returns …

The Seven Deadly Citizens On Patrol: An Examination Of Faults, Misdeeds, and Police Academy

The Seven Seas.  The Seven Dwarves.  The Magnificent Seven.  The Seven Continents.  Seven Brides for Seven Brothers.  All these sevens have two things in common: 1) They all involve having more than six, but less than eight of something and 2) They are all fictional.  (C’mon…Asia and Europe are the same landmass.  Call it Eurasia …