First contact with alien life probably won’t arrive as a quiet radio whisper - scientists expect it to be loud, energetic, and impossible to miss. Powerful signals, strange bursts of radiation, or ...

From the Nostromo to the Earth of 2120: from 1979 to today, the design of the Alien universe has never ceased to convey the fears, ideologies, and infrastructures of science fiction. The set design of ...

After escaping with Newt and Hicks from the alien planet, Ripley crash lands on Fiorina 161, a prison planet and host to a correctional facility. Unfortunately, although Newt and Hicks do not survive ...

The ‘Alien’ franchise, kicking off with Ridley Scott’s chilling ‘Alien’ (1979), redefined sci-fi horror with its tale of the Xenomorph, a deadly extraterrestrial creature. Over four decades, the ...

Filmmaker Matthew Leigh reached out last week to ask me an interesting question…. Do non-sequel films with numbers in their titles underperform? He pointed to films like Mickey 17, The Ninth Gate and ...

The Accountant opens in theaters on Friday, April 25. This review is based on a screening at the 2025 SXSW Film and TV Festival. You can tell from the way the title is stylized on screen – as a ...

Diego Pineda has been a devout storyteller his whole life. He has self-published a fantasy novel and a book of short stories, and is actively working on publishing his second novel. A lifelong fan of ...

David Fincher has gone on to be seen as one of the best directors working today, and rightly so, but it almost didn’t pan out that way considering he had such an awful time working on Alien³. It’s a ...

This month, we pay tribute not just to a movie that almost instantly fell out of the public consciousness but to a great writer as well. North America may have no finer, no more eloquent defender of ...

With each new Alien instalment, the eldritch mystery that came with the HR Giger-designed xenomorph has all but evaporated The alien, which gives Ridley Scott’s 1979 horror classic its title, appeared ...