The Alien franchise has never exactly been short of talented actors – from the likes of Sigourney Weaver and John Hurt in the very first film, to Michael Fassbender and Charlize Theron in more recent ...

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Decades after the events of the Nostromo, a group of miners on a distant space colony attempt to retrieve cryopods from a deserted ship. They soon find the ship is overrun with mysterious alien ...

A new Alien film has just arrived in UK cinemas – with Priscilla star Cailee Spaeny leading the cast. She plays Rain, one of several young space colonisers who launch an audacious attempt to escape ...

Alien: Romulus is the seventh instalment in the classic space horror franchise (Picture: 20th Century Studios via AP) Alien movie director Fede Álvarez, who is at the helm of major new sequel, Alien: ...

Fede Álvarez’s effort is scrappier than Ridley Scott’s grandiose efforts – but everyone involved would have been better employed working on something new Fede Álvarez’s new instalment in the Alien ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

With Alien: Romulus now out in cinemas, lots of us that loved the original films will be revisiting them for a marathon-sesh before seeing the new one on the big screen. The original Alien movie has ...

The Alien franchise has, let’s face it, been struggling for life for decades. Prequels like Prometheus and Alien: Covenant and the much-maligned Alien vs. Predator hybrid films have given us nowhere ...

Cailee Spaeny stars in a shocker that goes back to the franchise’s first principles – with extravagantly scary, and revolting, results Robbie Collin has been a film critic for 20 years, during which ...

The latest in our ongoing series where writers highlight their rewatchable comfort films is an unlikely yet cathartic sci-fi horror classic Guardian writers on their ultimate feelgood movies Amid a ...