Case in point: James Cameron’s Aliens took a sharp turn from Ridley Scott’s original film, changing the tone from a sci-fi/horror nightmare to an action-horror thrill ride. Cameron was clearly ...

Episode 5, however, flips the script by showing us that Morrow isn’t the villain; he’s just as doomed and complicated as everyone else on the series. Not only that, it does this by turning him into ...

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 ...

The moment is the film’s final battle—human vs. alien. The titular villain, the queen alien, is pursuing Rebecca “Newt” Jordan (Carrie Henn), an orphan girl whom Ellen Ripley (Sigourney Weaver) has ...

The premiere episode of Alien: Earth, which is set two years before the events of the original 1979 Alien film, has an opening scene that feels and looks like it was taken straight out of the original ...

Their plan is to grow a clone of Ripley (which in the movie is called Ripley 8, after seven failed attempts) and remove the Queen Chestburster from her sternum to grow and study it. They do manage to ...

After Ellen Ripley’s last appearance in David Fincher’s “Alien 3,” Sigourney Weaver teased a potential return to the world of Weyland-Yutani at a New York Comic Con “Alien” reunion panel. “[‘Alien’ ...