Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Mark Hughes is an entertainment writer covering cinema and genre TV. Filmmaker Fede Álvarez’s anxiously awaited legacy sequel ...

The last two decades have been pretty rough for the Xenomorph. After being reduced to little more than a theme park attraction in Aliens vs Predator (and its sequel), before Ridley Scott returned to ...

The beauty of the “Alien” franchise is that it has always allowed room for distinctive filmmakers to play with their own aesthetics and themes. Ridley Scott’s taut, philosophical space-thriller “Alien ...

Like Alien 3, Alien: Resurrection, Prometheus and Alien: Covenant, Alien: Romulus has its issues (the biggest being unnecessary swings at fan service), but it’s buoyed by engaging characters as well ...

Cailee Spaeny stars in the seventh entry in the franchise, directed by Fede Álvarez as a nerve-jangling greatest-hits throwback. It works. So when I say that “Alien: Romulus” is one of the best “Alien ...

The seventh installment of the series centers on Rain (Cailee Spaeny), a contract worker in an outer-space mining colony, and her friend Andy (David Jonsson), an android. By Manohla Dargis When you ...

With “Alien: Romulus” hitting theaters, the 45-year-old series is getting a new jolt of life. How does the latest film stack up against its predecessors? By Elisabeth Vincentelli See more of our ...