FX's new series Alien: Earth opens with a scene familiar to any fans of the storied science fiction horror film franchise: A crew of dysfunctional, blue-collar workers waking from extended hibernation ...

The Alien universe is back, baby. Unsurprisingly, attempting to experiment on the alien goes horribly wrong for the scientists. As a result, their facility -- a massive ship split between parts ...

Right from the jump it's clear that FX's new series Alien: Earth is paying homage and gets its influence from the first two movies in the Alien franchise. The show's creator Noah Hawley (Legion, Fargo ...

A major pop culture convention is bringing the cast of Aliens and stars from film, anime, comics, and voice acting to Spring ...

Alien: Romulus is the latest entry in the venerable Alien sci-fi/horror film franchise, and it leans hard into the horror. The new movie stars Cailee Spaeney as one of a young crew of space miners, ...

Be it sci-fi, immigration or even artificial intelligence, the concept of "aliens" mirrors how we define fear, fascination and the "others" among us. What springs to mind at the mention of "alien"?

All fiction is metaphor,” wrote Ursula K Le Guin. “Science fiction is metaphor.” The writer, most famous for her Earthsea fantasy novels, captured the civil rights movement, second-wave feminism and ...

Fans who attended the Alien: Romulus panel at San Diego Comic-Con were treated to a terrifying treat from the film's cast and crew as the iconic face-huggers swarmed into the event. On Friday, fans ...

This small-screen prequel to "Alien" "should not be as good as it is", said Rebecca Nicholson in the FT. Ridley Scott's 1979 classic spawned "a sprawling franchise" of sequels and spin-offs, mostly ...

The original “Alien” (1979) was, like many other blockbuster movies of the day, a slow burn. Painstakingly it set the stage and allowed the tension to simmer while holding off on the mayhem. A ...