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Details About the Aliens Franchise a Normal Person Wouldn't Know
September 16, 2025
In honor of FX’s Alien: Earth, here are 12 details of the Alien franchise a normal person wouldn’t know. Xenomorphs
ALIEN: ROMULUS
July 16, 2024
Cailee Spaeny, star of Fede Álvarez’s new Alien: Romulus, remembers watching Ridley Scott’s original Alien as a child. “My dad
Alien Romulus Cailee Spaeny
June 4, 2024
The trailer for Alien: Romulus is out, and it pays homage to that awful, unforgettable chestburster scene from the original…
Sputnik spoilers sputnik alien
August 14, 2020
The Sputnik alien is the creepiest movie alien in years. Director Egor Abramenko told us how an earthbound creature helped…
Sputnik alien
August 13, 2020
This Sputnik concept art shows how the creatire in the new Russian horror/sci-fi film evolved into one the best movie…
August 21, 2017
We know the Moon—or at least how it ought to look—and cinema is partly responsible for that intuition. Here's a…
August 14, 2017
In the world of franchises, when confusing—and, too often, contradictory—derivations and variants muck up mythology, problems ensue.
June 15, 2017
The first contact that Hollywood has with any screenplay that comes through their e-mail inbox? The title. Work these steps…
Katherine Waterston Alien: Covenant
May 17, 2017
Do a cursory scroll through the IMDb page of Katherine Waterston, and you’ll find someone who—on the surface—is in the…
May 16, 2017
The average produced script spends 5-7 years in development. During that time, it must survive rounds and rounds of script…
October 24, 2016
"Theme" is a term that gets tossed around a great deal in the film world. So what do we mean…
August 2, 2016
Kirby Ferguson defined the state of Hollywood best when he named his popular Vimeo series "Everything Is a Remix." In…
April 1, 2016
Noted genre aficionado Nicolas Winding Refn names his 10 favorite horror films, in no particular order.
February 22, 2016
Whether you love them or hate them, sequels are the bread and butter of Hollywood.
December 14, 2015
I’ve always been attracted to stories that allow for deconstruction of a gender trope, because that's what I’ve experienced in…
April 1, 2011
Whenever a new horror film emerges, there seem to be two schools of thought in terms of attendance: “I can’t