Movie Reviews: Alien: Covenant, Miss Sloane, Frantz

Ten years on from the events of Prometheus, Alien: Covenant (16s), the fifth offering in the Alien franchise, opens with the spaceship Covenant responding to what appears to be a human signal from an Earth-like planet.

Led by Captain Oram (Billy Crudup), a team touches down on the planet to discover a world which appears to be entirely devoid of animal life — until they are attacked by a horde of vicious alien predators.

Written by Dante Harper and John Logan, and directed by Ridley Scott, Alien: Covenant opens with an intriguing prologue in which Walter (Michael Fassbender) discovers he is an artificial intelligence ‘synthetic’ created for the purpose of discovering the meaning of life.