From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

‘Alien: Covenant’ hit cinemas across the galaxy this weekend and fans are already dissecting the latest instalment of the sci-fi series with space laser precision. With many plot strands left dangling ...

The first trailer for Alien: Covenant, the sequel to 2012’s Prometheus and second prequel to 1979’s Alien was, essentially, a two-minute bloodbath. For those disappointed by Prometheus’s focus on the ...

When the final credits rolled on Ridley Scott’s Prometheus in 2012, the cloying sensation was not of wondrous, terrifying stories still to be told, but of writers having just painted themselves into a ...

Alien: Covenant’s strongest improvement on its predecessor is simple narrative coherence. The plot – the colonisation mission of the Covenant is waylaid by an accident and the promise of a closer, ...

In advance of the May 19 release of Alien: Covenant, the sequel to 2012's Prometheus, the usual movie trailers will be accompanied by a high-quality online short, the 2.5-minute Meet Walter, which ...

Alien: Covenant is a return to the style of first film, but was it the Alien film we've been waiting for? When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how ...

It goes without saying that Prometheus is not a perfect movie. Underwritten, overthought, and lacking in a certain human element, it had plenty of flaws to go around. But that effort also contained a ...

2109. En route to Origae-6 to start a new colony, the crew of USCSS Covenant, tempted by a seemingly rogue transmission, opt for a closer, seemingly equally hospitable planet. Only terraforming ...

Even though we know what to expect long before it arrives, Ridley Scott's latest return to the Alien franchise does have its skin-deep pleasures If just thinking about Michael Fassbender makes you ...