Both Oblivion and Upstream Color are successful at their very different ... let's never forget that moment of abject horror in Alien when the alien bursts out of Kane's chest and leaves everyone ...

Upstream Color sends you scrambling for clues ... recall the merging consciousnesses of Elliott and the alien in E.T.. At a certain point, Kris and Jeff are not merely united by circumstance ...

“Upstream Color” remains Carruth’s brainchild ... more gripping than the chest-bursting scene in “Alien.” On screen, the digital and natural worlds somehow affect one another — close-ups show an ...

Upstream Color, however, I watched in a small theatrette ... one possibly heavily influenced by alien abduction stories, which often describe what we essentially witness here: invasive surgery ...