When Ripley initiates the ship's self-destruct sequence late in the movie, we get a briefest of glimpses at the Nostromo's unique control panel, which contains a number of esoteric references to ...

When Alien burst onto the cinema screens in 1979, audiences got the shock of their lives, as the titular creature chased Sigourney Weaver and her fellow crew members around their spaceship. Ridley ...

Ellen Ripley is the warrant officer assigned to the USCSS Nostromo who encounters a hostile alien, the Xenomorph, when its embryo is brought back onto the ship. She's the protagonist of four Alien ...

When a movie works – really, really works – its combination of acting, cinematography, music, sound design, lighting, and editing come together so seamlessly that it can become difficult to pin down ...