The director’s more-is-more approach to the 1986 sequel gave us seat-edge action and an indelible performance from a rule-breaking Sigourney Weaver ...

It turns out the legend of Aliens’ pitch meeting is true. When director James Cameron met studio execs to discuss a proposed ...

As the peerless "Aliens" turns 40, here are 26 reasons it's still the greatest sci-fi action movie of all time.

Forty years ago today, on July 18, 1986, 20th Century Fox put a sequel into American theaters that had no business working.

When James Cameron’s Aliens was released 40 years ago, film critics dismissed it as a dumb blockbuster, a defense of patriarchy, and a reflection of US scorched-earth military policy. They were wrong ...

Every sequel faces the same impossible challenge. Audiences want more of what they loved the first time, but they also want ...

Released 40 years ago today, one of the 'best action movie of all time' barely made it to theaters after a nightmare ...

Discover the unsettling origins of the Three Kings in Alien: King Killer #4, as Marvel reveals the creatures were engineered ...

The greatest sci-fi show currently airing, Apple TV's Silo owes a debt to classic films of the genre like Alien, Logan's Run, ...

I n her Clarendon Lectures ​ , given at Oxford in 2023 and recently published as Poetry’s Nature (Oxford, £25.99), Susan ...