There’s nothing more satisfying than watching an epic movie. But what defines an epic? Characterized by length, scope, and ...

With a great sci-fi adventure comes great expectations from the audience. Filmmakers working within the genre have long relied on a core set of tried-and-true “rules” to keep sprawling ideas in check ...

Predator: Badlands is now in theaters, and while Dan Trachtenberg's Prey follow-up doesn't feature any direct connections to or crossovers with the Alien franchise - beyond the Weyland-Yutani ...

Ever since the release of the original Ridley Scott-directed 1979 film, Alien has felt like an expansive universe full of potential. Even before it was a franchise in its own right, even just that ...

The best Alien movie watch order is a tough one to crack since each release ends up somewhere random on the timeline. There are sequels, prequels, midquels, and all sorts of sheiannigans going on that ...

Is it the invasion of the genome snatchers? Just in case the idea of aliens walking around in human skin suits wasn’t frightening enough. An outlandish study asserts that aliens might have abducted us ...

Prometheus, the “prequel” to Alien (1979), is about the crew members of an exploratory vessel of the same name. The crew, headed by Elizabeth Shaw (Noomi Rapace, the original Girl with the Dragon ...

Sydney Chandler had terrible eyesight as a child. The 29-year-old star of Alien: Earth (and daughter of Kyle Chandler) grew up with severe vision impairment that was eventually corrected through ...

Fiction, by its very definition, isn't real. A character can have an entire lifetime of backstory, the politics and geography of their made-up homeworld a matter of record, but none of it would exist ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about TV shows, movies, video games, entertainment & culture. The main problem with Alien: Earth, in its first seven ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Part of what made the xenomorphs so scary in the original Alien and its sequels was that nobody really knew what the xenomorphs ...