With Alien: Romulus hitting our screens soon, it is as good a time as any to cast a discerning eye over the history of this at times breath-taking and always fascinating franchise and remind ourselves ...

Ten years after the events of Prometheus, the second Alien prequel from Ridley Scott sees a colony ship from Earth - called, you guessed it, Covenant - answer a distress call on an isolated but ...

The new feature certainly delivers what you’d expect from an Aliens film- spectacle, body horror, strong Ripley-like female protagonists and some astonishing special effects – but there’s also a ...

It's a testament to the skill of franchise creator Ridley Scott and the nightmare-inducing work of creature designer H.R. Giger that the Xenomorph species, despite turning 38 this year, still manages ...

Alien: Covenant’s strongest improvement on its predecessor is simple narrative coherence. The plot – the colonisation mission of the Covenant is waylaid by an accident and the promise of a closer, ...