New week, new cool stuff to take a look at on SYFY! The week of Might 23-29, 2022 brings a superb choice of space-set sci-fi horror, together with a contemporary motion journey traditional and one of many best sci-fi reveals of all time on SYFY Rewind.
Let’s dig in.
Tuesday: Raid some tombs with ‘Tomb Raider’
Begin issues off early this week with loads of motion journey within the 2018 online game adaptation of Tomb Raider, with Alicia Vikander taking on the pistols as Lara Croft. The movie put a recent spin on the tried and true treasure searching franchise, basing the narrative on the extra grounded run of video games which have come out the previous few years. Additionally value mentioning, the supporting forged is nice on this one, with Walton Goggins, Dominic West, Hannah John-Kamen and Daniel Wu.
A protracted-gestating sequel can also be on the best way. The movie airs Tuesday, 8:30 p.m. on SYFY.
Thursday: Area out with sci-fi horror ‘Life’
This can be a good one you’ll have missed from 2017, and is positively loaded with A-list expertise in entrance of — and behind — the digital camera. Life was directed by Daniel Espinosa, and written by Deadpool and Zombieland masterminds Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick. It stars Ryan Reynolds, Jake Gyllenhaal and Rebecca Ferguson as astronauts on the Worldwide Area Station who wind up in possession of a probe which may maintain proof of alien life. Issues go sideways from there. It’s claustrophobic with Alien vibes, and the trademark wit of Reese and Wernick tying it collectively.
Life airs Thursday at 11 p.m. on SYFY.
Friday: Preserve Leapin’ with SYFY Rewind
It’s Friday, so you realize what meaning! SYFY Rewind continues, with the kickoff of Season 2 of Quantum Leap and a number of the present’s most beloved adventures. With NBC plotting a revival collection to air this fall, it’s the proper time to get a refresher on all these unique leaps that got here earlier than. The marathon runs Friday from 6 a.m. till 6 p.m. on SYFY.
Sunday: Relive ‘Alien 3’ simply in time for its thirtieth anniversary
It’s exhausting to imagine, but it surely’s been 30 years for the reason that Alien franchise took a tough left flip with Alien 3. The troubled sequel, which underwent a chaotic inventive course of earlier than lastly stumbling onto the massive display with wildly combined reception. Finally directed by David Fincher, the movie picked up virtually instantly after the occasions of Aliens, with Ripley and crew crash-landing on a jail colony and bringing a couple of murderous aliens together with them.
With the sequel celebrating its thirtieth anniversary this 12 months, it’s the proper time to dive again in and see if it nonetheless holds up. Alien 3 airs at 2 a.m. Monday morning, following a Sunday, 11 p.m. airing of Aliens, on SYFY to get you primed.
