Fassbender breaks new ground

Michael Fassbender and Katherine Waterston in Alien: Covenant

Cinema

Alien: Covenant: Directed by Ridley Scott, Nationwide, 16,Rating:***

Miss Sloane: Directed by John Madden, Nationwide, 15A,Rating:***

Almost 40 years ago, Ridley Scott combined rusty science fiction with gory horror to create the uniquely claustrophobic and brilliantly effective Alien, in which a parasitic extraterrestrial monster picked off the members of an interplanetary spacecraft. Five franchise instalments of varying quality later (including his own wobbly prequel Prometheus), Scott delivers an intense continuation of the ...