The team ends up inside a hive rigged for nuclear meltdown and is stranded on the planet. The team splits up, with Ripley setting the planet to blow up and Newt trying to save a little girl inside a ...

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The beauty of the “Alien” franchise is that it has always allowed room for distinctive filmmakers to play with their own aesthetics and themes. Ridley Scott’s taut, philosophical space-thriller “Alien ...