I'm currently visiting my sister, who moved out here a little over two years agoright around when The Bear sent Marcus the pastry chef (Lionel Boyce) to travel around the city and learn about fancy pastries. After I interviewed Boyce that season, he pointed me to a hole-in-the-wall fried chicken joint called Poulette that he filmed a scene in for the showand it's somehow still a hidden gem in the city.
There was a time when nothing in cinema was more frightening than a xenomorph. HR Giger's nightmarish biomechanical hellspawn, dripping with fluids and Freudian discharge, was the gruesome, undisputed apex predator of movie monsters. It burst from your chest; it dissolved your face with acid; it splintered your ribcage like a pinata filled with blood and screams. It was unstoppable, unknowable, the kind of thing you'd expect to find at the bottom of your dishwasher after leaving it closed for 36 centuries.
Babou Ceesay commands attention with his performance as Morrow, a predatory cyborg in Alien: Earth, contrasting with the chaotic creatures around him. His portrayal reflects a thrilling blend of menace and charisma within a sci-fi horror context.