When Sigourney Weaver first brought Ellen Ripley to life in 1979’s Alien, she redefined what a hero in science fiction could be: resourceful, resilient, and human, even in the face of monsters beyond ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Mark Hughes is an entertainment writer covering cinema and genre TV. Filmmaker Fede Álvarez’s anxiously awaited legacy sequel ...

The eighth installment in the long-running franchise is set between the events of Ridley Scott's 1979 'Alien' and James Cameron's 1986 sequel, 'Aliens.' By Abid Rahman International Editor, Digital ...

Alien: Earth showrunner Noah Hawley clearly didn’t think the franchise was doing enough with the implications of its title. Ridley Scott’s Alien (1979) imagined the kind of nightmare lifeforms that ...

A group of space researchers discover a life form that shocks them to their cores in Alien: Romulus, which is coming to theaters this weekend. Luckily, we have you covered on all the ways you can ...

Unlike Star Wars, which takes place a long time ago in a galaxy far away, the Alien movies have always been a glimpse into humanity's distant-but-imaginable future. Putting aside the non-canon Alien ...

Ridley Scott’s Alien forever changed both science fiction and horror movies when it came out in 1979, and, nearly half a century later, we’re still chilled to the bone by those terrifying xenomorphs.