Tonally speaking, the “Alien” movies span several genres — mainly action, horror and operatic sci-fi. The best double as ...

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.

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 ...

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

Earth could have some major ties to the rest of the Alien franchise, and it may even solve one mystery about the Nostromo ...

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 ...

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 ...

“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 ...

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.

While Alien: Covenant resolved some of the questions we had after watching Prometheus, it threw up plenty of its own. Here are the ones we're still thinking about long after leaving the cinema. At ...

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 ...