Early on in “Alien: Covenant,” before any spleens have ruptured or any Xenomorphs have reared their hideous heads, a large ship glides through outer space and unfurls its golden sails, like an ...

As directed by Alien maestro Ridley Scott, the film's action sequences are often shot in a way that makes it impossible to know what's going on, but you know it's bad. This was never meant to be ...

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 ...

“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 ...

Alien: Covenant doesn’t find that avenue, instead bogging itself down in exposition to craft an origin story that wasn’t needed. Alien and Aliens knew it well enough back when they were ...

With Alien: Covenant – the direct sequel to Prometheus and a bridge to the events of Alien – Scott had the freedom to sample from the best of both the prequel story he’s created and the ...

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 ...

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.

Although “Covenant” incorporates the “Prometheus” story, the movie feels less like a sequel than a Frankenstein version of the “Alien” franchise, stitched together from pieces of ...