Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Monica is an entertainment reporter covering TV, film, and music. The sci-fi thriller is the ninth installment in the Alien ...

Left to Right: Steven Yeun in "Nope," the alien in Steven Spielberg's "E.T." and Scarlett Johansson in "Under the Skin" (Universal Pictures / A24) It didn’t take long for stories about ...

There's a lot of hype surrounding Fede Álvarez's upcoming Alien: Romulus, and for good reason. The standalone Alien movie seems to be taking the franchise to its Ridley Scott roots by returning to the ...

Alien: Earth showrunner Noah Hawley clearly didn’t think the franchise was doing enough with the implications of its title. Ridley Scott’s Alien (1979) imagined the kind of nightmare lifeforms that ...

The Alien and Predator franchises rank among the most iconic sci-fi properties of all time. Both have been rebooted by 20th Century Studios on Disney's watch, with Prey proving to be a huge success on ...

Across the many stories set in the Alien universe, there’s evidence to suggest the xenomorphs are part of some kind of hivemind that, at some level, operates as a collective consciousness. The same ...