Mommies dearest

Alien

(1979)

Much was made in 1986 of the distinctly nonfeminist epithet Ripley (Sigourney Weaver, duh) shouts at the climax of the wo-mano a wo-mano showdown in Aliens--the rough equivalent to an African American wielding the n-word--but I don't recall anyone pointing out that she utters the exact same epithet to Mother, the computer on the Nostromo, in this film.

Aliens

(1986)

Halloween season is not the time to watch this; it should be a Mother's Day tradition. This remains the best cinematic rebuttal to the notion that "maternal" and "feminist" need be mutually exclusive.

Oh, incidentally, yes, these were both theoretically eligible for Friday-night deaccession, but forget it: these aren't leaving my collection.