Minutes later, O’Brien is still attempting to describe Fleming, and he eventually lands on the image of “the goop that’s inside a lava lamp.” Fleming’s work is a hyperspecific, manic, digressive ...

COMPOSER ALAN MENKEN WAS HAVING an identity crisis, which was unfortunate, since he was spending the day with reporters pestering him about his newest work, Beauty and the Beast, the Broadway musical.

When you choose a career in acting, your personal tastes and fears don’t always stay at the door. Some of the most famous ...

A declassified CIA file reprints a 1993 Ukrainian newspaper report claiming dozens of Soviet soldiers were allegedly turned ...

Some exceptionally unsettling elements were thrown together to create the Xenomorph when it first appeared in Ridley Scott's 1979 horror sci-fi, "Alien." Spliced from ...

There’s no denying the allure of alien artifacts. Science fiction is awash in the material remnants of extraterrestrial civilizations, which surface in everything from the classic books of Arthur C.

It's a big universe out there, and while we're all for exploring it, a specific subgenre of science fiction movies has hinted that it might be a bad idea. Alien invasion movies have come in droves ...

Ridley Scott's inimitable 1979 sci-fi thriller, Alien, expertly ratchets up the tension by not having the titular alien show up on screen until roughly an hour into the film. Following in Scott's ...

A new paper posits that advanced alien civilizations may communicate through subtle flashes, like fireflies do on Earth. The thought experiment suggests that we need to avoid human biases in our ...

‘Alien: Earth’ will return for a second season. Creator Noah Hawley has signed a new deal with FX. The new season will start shooting next year. As one of the biggest, buzziest TV hits of the year, ...