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 ...

Before we talk about the energetic-but-empty Alien: Romulus, we need to talk about the Alien movie franchise. When Ridley Scott's Alien debuted in 1979, it helped set the template for both horror and ...

Back when Alien: Earth premiered on FX and Hulu, all of three weeks ago, IGN’s Clint Gage said in his review of the first two episodes that, “The xenomorph is playing the hits, as it were. But this ...

This article contains spoilers for Alien: Earth episode 4. No Alien project can ever recapture the sense of cosmic horror upon seeing H.R. Giger’s xenomorph for the first time. So when it came time to ...

Cailee Spaeny and David Jonsson in "Alien: Romulus" (20th Century Studios) Few cinematic characters have left as big of an impression as Ellen Ripley, Sigourney Weaver’s iconic “Alien” survivor, who ...

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 ...

Warning: This article contains SPOILERS for Alien: Earth episode 4, "Observation". Given Alien's brutal and dark nature, it's no surprise that many characters have endured sinister fates, but the ...

That’s the tagline to pop culture’s favorite sci-fi horror movie — a film that pushed the genre forward with an incredible display of acting and top-notch production, with layers of themes and subtext ...

Although Prometheus arrived over a decade ago, Alien: Romulus means that the Alien prequel’s best new character is more pivotal to the series than ever. Prometheus’s connections to the original Alien ...

From the first time he appeared onscreen in FX’s Alien: Earth, there’s been something delightfully off about Morrow. Played by 46-year-old British actor Babou Ceesay, the prequel show’s even-tempered ...