For nearly five decades, Steven Spielberg has helped define what alien stories mean to movie audiences. Sometimes they arrive as cosmic miracles. Sometimes as existential threats. Sometimes as ...

The latest episode of Star Trek: Starfleet Academy to hit the 2026 TV schedule totally had a nod to one of the best sci-fi movie franchises of all time, the Alien films, and I cannot believe I missed ...

Part of what makes some classics worthy of such a title is the ingenuity and borderline movie magic they employ to tell their story. In the case of "Alien," for example, director Ridley Scott used ...

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 ...

Bi Gan’s “Resurrection” is trippy cinema at its best, a nearly three-hour deep dive into experimental cinema. It’s the kind of movie that plays well at festivals (it won the Special Jury prize at ...

One of the downsides of our movie-mad filmmakers — the Quentin Tarantinos who happily plunder from cinema’s illustrious past — is that their worldview can be myopic beyond what’s up there on the ...

The first trailer for legendary filmmaker Steven Spielberg’s next movie, Disclosure Day, is here, and it’s unlike many of his recent projects. The famous director is returning to the world of UFOs and ...

The Chinese director Bi Gan, who has become a lauded fixture on the festival circuit, conjures a boundary-pushing tale that evokes moviemaking itself. By Manohla Dargis When you purchase a ticket for ...

Weaver spoke with Variety about a potential return to Ripley while promoting Avatar: Fire and Ash. And, while nothing is concrete, it should prove to be positive news for fans of the Xenomorph ...

Sigourney Weaver has given an update regarding her return to the Alien franchise. Weaver is known for playing Ellen Ripley in the Alien franchise, with the character having appeared in 1979’s Alien, ...

That is where the story of Ripley should have ended, but we got Alien: Resurrection anyway. And that might have been okay if the film stuck its ambitious landing…but it didn’t. Alien: Resurrection ...

There's been talk of Disney/20th Century Studios potentially developing a new Alien Vs. Predator movie since Fede Álvarez's brought the acid-blooded beasts back to the big screen in Alien: Romulus, ...