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KATHERINE WATERSTON

"I t's so weird being an actor because some days you're just swinging upside-down off the side of a spaceship shooting an alien and you think, 'What the hell am I doing here? How did this happen?'" It's a fair call from a rising star whose face you might recognise from Boardwalk Empire , or roles in Steve Jobs and Inherent Vice . Now, following three high profile films this year, the daughter of actor SamWaterston is about to be a whole lot busier. The scene she's describing is of course from Alien: Covenant , in which she plays terraformer and Captain's widow Janet Daniels,

major plus.

who assumes the Ripley role when an alien fnds its way onto the titular colony ship. "I needed someone who was physically imposing, tall, athletic and a great actress," said Ridley Scott of casting Waterston, also citing her theatre background as

Prior to fighting aliens, Waterston was waving wands alongside Eddie Redmayne in Fantastic

Alien: Covenant

Beasts and Where to Find Them , as American witch Porpentina 'Tina' Goldstein – a role she will reprise in the sequel that's currently filming. Most recently, she played the health worker who takes a shine to Channing Tatum's character in Steven Soderbergh's Logan Lucky . Waterston's next big role is as Marguerite Westinghouse in the (literally) electric historical drama,

The Current War (due 2018). The film details the rivalry between George Westinghouse (Michael Shannon) and Thomas Edison (Benedict Cumberbatch) to create a sustainable energy system. She also reteams with Shannon for the drama State Like Sleep, and has just completed the arthouse sci-fi Fluidic and Jonah Hill comedy Mid '90s . SH

Fantastic Beasts and Where to FindThem

BLADE RUNNER IN 4K UHD W ith sequel Blade Runner 2049 in cinemas next month, now is the time to brush up on Replicant lore and revisit Ridley Scott's 1982 sci-fi classic – in UHD. Presenting a grim future where forties' film noir meets techno-grunge, the polluted

JOHN DENVER The late singer-songwriter has been ubiquitous on film soundtracks of late, with his anthem Take Me Home, Country Roads featuring in Logan Lucky (set inWest Virginia, natch) and more bizarrely as the

cultural melting pot of Los Angeles 2019 (only two years to go!) is not only a triumph of production design, it's also a reflection of the dehumanisation of society by the Tyrell Corporation's "more human than human" Replicants, and a rumination on whether we're more than just the sum total of our memories. It's big ideas like this – lurking in a simple search-and-destroy detective yarn – that distinguished Blade Runner from the more optimistic and flashy sci-fi films of the era. Whichever video format you choose – and let's face it, a film like this is made for HD – Blade Runner is just as relevant today, and even more essential in a cinematic landscape that now favours spectacle over intellect. SH

distress call that's picked up in Alien:

Covenant . Additionally, Annie's Song and This

Old Guitar are used to inappropriate (and hilarious) effect during bouts of bloody mayhem in BenWheatley's Free Fire .

• Blade Runner: The Final Cut debuts on 4K UHD on Sept 20, and will also be available as a Limited Edition Blu-ray Steelbook exclusive to JB Hi-Fi stores.

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