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 ...

In 1986, James Cameron achieved the feat of giving the cult film “Alien” a sequel that is both equal and independent.

It's probably not as influential as "Alien," but Cameron's entry in the franchise carved its own path in film history, where ...

Gene Roddenberry‘s beloved franchise beamed into theaters 13 times from 1979 to 2016. We take a look back at the movies that ...

40 years later, James Cameron's follow-up remains the clearest blueprint for expanding a franchise without repeating it.

The Star Trek franchise is one of the most iconic and influential pieces of sci-fi fiction of all time. Since 1966, when Star ...

Making a sequel to Ridley Scott's 1979 classic "Alien" should have been a disaster. This was a movie that defined a whole new ...

It's a near impossible task to rank the top 20 college football teams of all time but the 2005 Texas Longhorns of Vince Young ...

David Thomson is a film critic, historian, and author of “A Sudden Flicker of Light: A Revisionist History of Movies.” How ...

The marginal achievement of the earlier Supergirl movie is preferable to the deadbeat nihilism of this new one.