FX's new series Alien: Earth opens with a scene familiar to any fans of the storied science fiction horror film franchise: A crew of dysfunctional, blue-collar workers waking from extended hibernation ...

The Alien universe is back, baby. Unsurprisingly, attempting to experiment on the alien goes horribly wrong for the scientists. As a result, their facility -- a massive ship split between parts ...

It becomes easier to get around a new place if you have an atlas handy. When it comes to navigating your way around marketing to an alien culture, your atlas can be any source of information created ...

Moviegoers taking in the new Alien: Romulus were in for quite a few jump scares and surprises as director Fede Alvarez brought one of sci-fi's best properties back to the big screen on Friday, August ...

A wide mix of film, television, voice-acting, comics, and cosplay stars is coming to the Houston area this spring as Pop Culture Con returns with a packed lineup of guests and events. Organizers say ...

Kicking things off, we’ve chosen a baseline for these opening encounters. Steven Spielberg’s Close Encounters of the Third Kind represents how most people hope a real-life alien encounter will go down ...

The original “Alien” (1979) was, like many other blockbuster movies of the day, a slow burn. Painstakingly it set the stage and allowed the tension to simmer while holding off on the mayhem. A ...

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Be it sci-fi, immigration or even artificial intelligence, the concept of "aliens" mirrors how we define fear, fascination and the "others" among us. What springs to mind at the mention of "alien"?

E.T., title star of the 1982 movie, is deeply nonhuman: benevolent, selfless, and greedy for nothing more than some Reese's Pieces. So did the poor guy deserve to be terrorized by thugs in hazmat ...

There's a lot of hype surrounding Fede Álvarez's upcoming Alien: Romulus, and for good reason. The standalone Alien movie seems to be taking the franchise to its Ridley Scott roots by returning to the ...

Gear-obsessed editors choose every product we review. We may earn commission if you buy from a link. Why Trust Us? It was a temperate summer evening on September 19, 1961, when husband-and-wife duo ...