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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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Kristy Ambrose has been writing professionally since 2010. She dabbles in various genres, but her favorites are fantasy and science fiction. She creates everything from fanfiction to serialized novels ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A plan was then formed between Ripley and the weaponless inmates of Fury 161: to trap the Runner in a nuclear waste storage tank by igniting the toxic air to force it inside. This plan failed and many ...

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 ...