The rich irony at the heart of the storied “Alien” franchise is that at the core of these encounters with the monstrous animal is a question of what, in fact, makes us truly human. The grand twist of ...

Six episodes of Alien: Earth watched for this spoiler-free review. Alien is a long-running sci-fi franchise that, arguably, only has two good entries in its entire canon: Ridley Scott's ...

FX dropped the first two episodes of Noah Hawley’s Alien: Earth, and it’s clear from the beginning what this series is trying to do. It all at once pays homage to the original Alien film while also ...

It doesn’t take long for the monsters to appear in the new series “Alien: Earth.” In fact, they’re the same ones that first started terrorizing Sigourney Weaver when the “Alien” franchise began in ...

For years, I firmly believed that there were no bad "Alien" movies (I am, of course, excluding the dreadful "Alien vs. Predator" films, which simply don't count). Ridley Scott's original "Alien" is a ...

For those uninitiated, the Alien film franchise (starting with 1979's Alien) centers on humans trying to survive an encounter with a fearsome alien species that is a certified killing machine, with ...