AVP2 Requiem Post Round-Up

Aliens Vs. Preadator 2:  Requiem really left an afterimage on my retina for me to have written so many posts on that movie in the past week.  Here are all the posts collected for your reading pleasure: On Forced Deep Throat in Aliens Vs. Predator Requiem More Thoughts on Forced Fellatio in AVP2  Requiem The …

Another Feminist Reading of AVP2 Requiem

Last night I went to an excellent party hosted by Kolter in nearby Akron.  As the evening went on, I was talking with Professor Raja’s wife, Jenny (she’s a Renaissance Studies PhD candidate at Florida State, and she has a healthy appreciation of SF) about AVP2 Requiem and my thoughts about the Alien-Predator hybrid as …

The Cigarette Smoking Man and Ms. Yutani in AVP2 Requiem

Another interesting aspect of AVP2 Requiem is the appearance of the Cigarette Smoking Man from The X-Files. Okay, so the character is called Colonel Stevens, and he’s played by Robert Joy and not William B. Davis. However, he serves a similarly shady function within the AVP2 narrative. This American government/military official donning a black suit …