In 1979, Sigourney Weaver, then a relative unknown, became a huge star thanks to her breakout performance as Ellen Ripley in Ridley Scott's Alien. In a world dominated by male heroes, Ripley was a ...

Joshua Kristian McCoy is a freelance writer and film critic from the United States. He is a lifelong film buff, a voting member of the Georgia Film Critics Association, a tournament-winning Smash Bros ...

In space, no one can hear you scream. The movie theater is a different story. The spine-chilling sci-fi horror franchise “Alien” returns this week with “Alien: Romulus,” featuring a new crew of young, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Dark surrealist artist H.R. Giger designed the terrifying creature, known as a xenomorph, and its various life stages. The ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. With Women Of Action, Caroline Siede digs into the history of women-driven action movies to explore what these stories say about ...

Jeff Ewing is a critic, entertainment journalist, interviewer, and screenwriter in LA with a life-long love of horror and film history. He has an M.S. in Sociology from the University of Oregon, and a ...

What started out as a simple monster movie in space -- Ridley Scott's 1979 Alien -- has in the decades since seen burst from its chest, if you will, an entire franchise of seemingly unstoppable, ...

Directed by Ridley Scott, the first flick in the Alien franchise introduces viewers to no-nonsense Ellen Ripley, the third officer of the space freighter Nostromo and an employee of the Weyland-Yutani ...

Ellen Ripley was born on January 7th, 2092, at the Olympia colony on Luna. She was recruited to the Weyland-Yutani Horizon Beyond officer training program in 2115. She went on to complete her officer ...