The hit sci-fi series is set two years before the events of the first Alien movie, and it follows a young woman and a group of ragtag soldiers who make a fateful discovery after a vessel full of ...

This month’s picks include the animated feature films that are competing for an Academy Award on March 15.

Shaped by a different biology or culture, other intelligent civilisations – if they’re out there – might understand the universe in a completely different way than we do. Physicist Daniel Whiteson exp ...

There’s a moment in the film Deep Blue Sea that is known for making audiences jump out of their seats. If you’ve seen it, you ...

Thanks to the prequel's controversial changes to Alien's canon, Ridley Scott's most divisive franchise entry left some major ...

A 90s cult classic sci-fi movie ripped off Ridley Scott's Alien with a scene that has an even longer legacy than that.

Does ‘Bugonia’ turn out to be a tense thriller about delusion, or a sci-fi movie about aliens?

Throughout his career, the filmmaker has used sci-fi as a way to show ordinary people dealing with something way too big to control or explain. So when a new alien-focused film of his starts ...

For nearly five decades, Steven Spielberg has helped define what alien stories mean to movie audiences. Sometimes they arrive as cosmic miracles. Sometimes as existential threats. Sometimes as ...

Steven Spielberg is previewing Disclosure Day by reflecting on his interest in aliens. "I've always been fascinated with things that cannot be explained, and I've made a lot of movies about things ...