Director Roland Emmerich’s 1996 alien invasion movie Independence Day arrives on Netflix today and I, for one, can’t wait to watch the film for what might be the 50th time. Sure, there are plenty of ...

Some exceptionally unsettling elements were thrown together to create the Xenomorph when it first appeared in Ridley Scott's 1979 horror sci-fi, "Alien." Spliced from ...

The latest episode of Star Trek: Starfleet Academy to hit the 2026 TV schedule totally had a nod to one of the best sci-fi movie franchises of all time, the Alien films, and I cannot believe I missed ...

Alien 3 released before Jurassic Park and you can really see how that movie changed the industry. Genetics, cloning and CGI had all been things that were talking points of that movie. Just in the same ...

It's a big universe out there, and while we're all for exploring it, a specific subgenre of science fiction movies has hinted that it might be a bad idea. Alien invasion movies have come in droves ...

Bi Gan’s “Resurrection” is trippy cinema at its best, a nearly three-hour deep dive into experimental cinema. It’s the kind of movie that plays well at festivals (it won the Special Jury prize at ...

One of the downsides of our movie-mad filmmakers — the Quentin Tarantinos who happily plunder from cinema’s illustrious past — is that their worldview can be myopic beyond what’s up there on the ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. One of the downsides of our movie-mad filmmakers — the Quentin Tarantinos who happily plunder from cinema’s ...

The Chinese director Bi Gan, who has become a lauded fixture on the festival circuit, conjures a boundary-pushing tale that evokes moviemaking itself. By Manohla Dargis When you purchase a ticket for ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Weaver spoke with Variety about a potential return to Ripley while promoting Avatar: Fire and Ash.

Sigourney Weaver has given an update regarding her return to the Alien franchise. Weaver is known for playing Ellen Ripley in the Alien franchise, with the character having appeared in 1979’s Alien, ...

Don’t expect a straightforward timeline, because continuity is a mess with the Alien and Predator timelines (even if, as in this list, you choose to ignore tie-in comics, novels, and games). Predator: ...