Every time I’ve gone to the movies with friends recently, I’ve dreaded the inevitable. But the source of my dismay hasn’t been from the usual suspects, like seeing a phone light up in the middle of ...

No matter how grim the situation, the heroes and protagonists always find a way out of it. At least that’s the narrative norm I was brought up on. So what if it’s an alien planet? So what if your only ...

When does this take place in the Alien and Predator timeline? Though considered an alternate timeline, it takes place in 2004. A few days, to a few weeks after AvP, 6 years before Predators and 90 ...

Ridley Scott's inimitable 1979 sci-fi thriller, Alien, expertly ratchets up the tension by not having the titular alien show up on screen until roughly an hour into the film. Following in Scott's ...

A new paper posits that advanced alien civilizations may communicate through subtle flashes, like fireflies do on Earth. The thought experiment suggests that we need to avoid human biases in our ...

James Cameron, the filmmaker behind Aliens, recently shared his blunt thoughts on why Alien 3 never worked for him, taking direct aim at the film’s most controversial creative choice. Along the way, ...

Sir Ridley Scott's Alien is an undisputed sci-fi/horror classic, but for many fans of the long-running franchise, James Cameron's Aliens is considered next level. David Fincher's Alien 3, however, is ...

Sir Ridley Scott's Alien is an undisputed sci-fi classic, but for many fans of the long-running franchise, James Cameron's Aliens is on a whole other level. David Fincher's Alien 3, however, is not ...

Either way, don’t expect him to ever return to the xenomorph hive. In a conversation on the “Just Foolin’ About” with Michael Biehn podcast, Cameron and Biehn (who co-starred in “Aliens” with ...

Case in point: James Cameron’s Aliens took a sharp turn from Ridley Scott’s original film, changing the tone from a sci-fi/horror nightmare to an action-horror thrill ride. Cameron was clearly ...