Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover Hollywood and entertainment. The official summary for Alien: Earth reads, “In the year 2120, the Earth is governed by five ...

It is not the least of this world’s wonders that it’s been nearly half a century since Ellen Ripley, in the person of Sigourney Weaver, sent the Alien, in the person of a person in an Alien suit, ...

After watching the latest episode of Hulu’s Alien: Earth, I posted on social media: “Every single plot point in Alien: Earth is built on characters making stupid choices, often while in circumstances ...

In the Alien franchise, the grisly deaths are usually reserved for the flesh-and-blood humans. But a few of the synthetic beings in the franchise have met horrible and gory ends too. In Ridley Scott’s ...

The “Alien” franchise gets an exciting new entry in its first TV series, “Alien: Earth,” which explores life on our planet in the context of the hunt for xenomorphs to study and weaponize. The ...

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In space, no one can hear you scream, but they can sure hear you scratching your head as you try to make sense of the sprawling “Alien” universe. While Ridley Scott’s 1979 haunted-house-in-the-cosmos ...

This article contains spoilers for Alien: Earth through Episode 6, as well as the rest of the Alien movie series. Alien: Resurrection, the fourth movie in the Alien franchise, is a mixed bag. Written ...

I don’t believe it’s an accident that Noah Hawley titled Episode 6 of Alien: Earth “The Fly.” The series comes back to the present tense to further explore the nature of humanity in the experiments on ...

SPOILER ALERT! This story contains details from episode 5 of Alien: Earth on FX. Something might feel wildly familiar about episode 5 of FX’s Alien prequel. That’s because the spacecraft that ...