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 ...

Ruling over the box office roost in its first weekend of release, the 2024 movie Alien: Romulus has reignited 20th Century Studios’ long running sci-fi franchise. A huge part of that tradition has ...

With Women Of Action, Caroline Siede digs into the history of women-driven action movies to explore what these stories say about gender and how depictions of female action heroes have evolved over ...

Episode 5, however, flips the script by showing us that Morrow isn’t the villain; he’s just as doomed and complicated as everyone else on the series. Not only that, it does this by turning him into ...

Ellen Ripley's emotional journey in Aliens is deepened by her connection to Newt and the tragedy of her lost daughter, Amanda. The deleted scene involving Ripley's promise to her daughter adds a layer ...

Contains discussion of sexual assault. Alien 3 is the second sequel to Ridley Scott's genre-changing space horror, Alien, but, thanks to a succession of baffling missteps, the movie failed to live up ...

The Alien franchise has vastly expanded since its first movie was released in 1979, exploring numerous different characters ...