Directors increasingly love to go back and monkey with their films. It’s tempting to think that director Cameron was as tightly focused as anyone who ever mounted such a large-scale Hollywood blockbuster.Įxcept … anyone who’s seen the “director’s cut” of “Aliens” knows he most definitely was not. Weaver’s terrific, the action is nonstop, and the xenomorph aliens of the title are nastier than ever. It goes poorly, thankfully for us, with the film’s Vietnam allegory on full display with the cocky and futuristically well-equipped soldiers running up against a much cannier enemy who can seemingly appear and vanish from out of the darkness. The 1986 film “Aliens,” of course, is Cameron’s follow-up to Ridley Scott’s flawlessly terrifying “Alien,” and succeeds on its own merits thanks to Cameron’s choice to open up the original’s claustrophobic chills into a full-blown war movie, with Sigourney Weaver’s peerlessly kick-ass survivor, Ripley, reluctantly joining a group of gung-ho space marines investigating the source of the previous film’s toothy terrors. The Eveningstar is the sort of single-screen movie palace the world needs more of, complete with a no-joke video store for patrons who just can’t get enough movie goodness, and their throwback screenings are always chosen for maximum nostalgic enjoyment.

So thanks to the fine folks at Brunswick’s Eveningstar Cinema for booking a screening of James Cameron’s ridiculously entertaining horror sequel, “Aliens,” on Thursday.

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