Most modern science fiction works don't portray human-alien interaction well. An example of this is 2012’s "Prometheus," which had a nightmare of a plot that was simply an accessory to over-the-top ...

When Fede Álvarez decided to make “Alien: Romulus,” he knew from the outset that he wanted to honor not just “Alien” and Aliens,” the most acclaimed and popular films in the series, but its entire ...

Movies like "Disclosure Day" and "Project Hail Mary" renew our fascination with extraterrestrials and the idea that humankind ...

Could ancient humans really have built the pyramids without extraterrestrial help? Or do such questions reveal more about ...

There have always been two kinds of monsters in the Alien franchise, each responsible for so much death. The first and most famous are Xenomorphs. But they have only killed so many people because of ...

The theory that aliens assisted the builders of ancient monuments was popularised by Swiss author Erich von Däniken in his ...

Even so, he built a pivotal part of the “Romulus” story around a character who died in the original movie: Ash, the synthetic human played by the late Ian Holm with chilling obedience to the franchise ...

Science fiction often imagines alien civilizations so advanced they seem like gods, with powers that look supernatural to anyone beneath them. But this episode asks a darker and more fascinating ...

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 ...