These wildly different films explore the wondrous, and sometimes terrifying possibilities of contacting extra-terrestrial ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about TV shows, movies, video games, entertainment & culture. First of all, no, Alien: Earth is not a nature documentary.

In the 1982 blockbuster, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, E.T. is lured out of hiding using a trail of Reese's Pieces. But what ...

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 ...

For roughly the first three decades of his career, Spielberg tended to take a fairly sanguine view of aliens, refusing to ...

Alien: Romulus—the latest film in filmmaker Ridley Scott’s iconic Alien franchise—debuts on digital streaming this week. Read on to find out when and where you can watch it at home. Directed by Fede ...

With 'Disclosure Day,' the director returns to a longtime preoccupation. Two Times staffers explore his ongoing fascination ...

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Unlike Star Wars, which takes place a long time ago in a galaxy far away, the Alien movies have always been a glimpse into humanity's distant-but-imaginable future. Putting aside the non-canon Alien ...