Ellen Ripley is the warrant officer assigned to the USCSS Nostromo who encounters a hostile alien, the Xenomorph, when its embryo is brought back onto the ship. She's the protagonist of four Alien ...

With Women Of Action, Caroline Siede digs into the history of women-driven action movies to explore what these stories say about gender and how depictions of female action heroes have evolved over ...

Time has been kind to Ridley’s Scott’s Alien since its release in 1979. What was initially regarded as a science fiction/horror genre work – albeit a superior one – now plays like an existential drama ...