Set in 2104, a decade after the events of that earlier picture, “Alien: Covenant” is a sleek and suspenseful reclamation of a science-fiction franchise that launched to huge success with Scott ...

That, I suppose, was the logic that spawned Alien: Covenant, another franchise film that buys into the current trend that every villain needs an empathetic origin story.

Thus, in the later stages of “Alien: Covenant,” we are ushered into an alchemist’s lair, halfway between a laboratory and a hovel, and dedicated, as far as I can gather, to alienology.

Ridley Scott confirmed he is planning another two Prometheus sequels to follow “Alien: Covenant” before the storyline meets up with the original 1979 “Alien.” ...

Ridley Scott is, virtually, at it again. The veteran director — whose “The Martian” was turned into an elaborate piece of virtual reality by Fox — will see his new movie “Alien: Covenant ...

Ridley Scott's new installment of the Aliens franchise is a face-grabbing prequel featuring two androids. Critic David Edelstein says that though plodding at times, Alien: Covenant does deliver.

“Alien: Covenant” is a story of original sin, of primordial hubris, from which calamity and misery ultimately result—the creation of an android, or “synthetic,” by Weyland (Guy Pearce ...

Maybe humans are the real monsters, and xenomorphs have just been misunderstood all along. That, I suppose, was the logic that spawned Alien: Covenant, another franchise film that buys into the ...