The moment is the film’s final battle—human vs. alien. The titular villain, the queen alien, is pursuing Rebecca “Newt” Jordan (Carrie Henn), an orphan girl whom Ellen Ripley (Sigourney Weaver) has ...

Producers didn’t want to make it. Many fans were outraged by it. To this day, David Fincher won’t talk about it. Released in 1992, Alien 3 was a violent and some would say disappointing contrast to ...

With Women Of Action, Caroline Siede digs into the history of women-driven action movies to explore what these stories say about gender and how depictions of female action heroes have evolved over ...

With Alien: Romulus hitting our screens soon, it is as good a time as any to cast a discerning eye over the history of this at times breath-taking and always fascinating franchise and remind ourselves ...

The first thing you notice about Lt Ellen Ripley is that no one likes her very much. As the crew of the Nostromo try to figure out why and where their ship’s computer has woken them from hypersleep, ...

There are many reasons why Alien and Aliens are such unforgettable films: the dark underlying themes, the quality of the acting, the sheer artistry evident in their design and composition. In Alien ...

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 ...

The following is a third act summary for 1992s Alien 3, directed by David Fincher. A plan was then formed between Ripley and the weaponless inmates of Fury 161: to trap the Runner in a nuclear waste ...

For reasons too convoluted to go into* April 26 is officially Alien Day. But whatever the reason, we’ll take any excuse to rave about Ellen Ripley, the hero of Ridley Scott’s 1979 sci-fi masterpiece ...

When French whizz Jean-Pierre Jeunet signed up to direct a fourth Alien movie there was clearly one overriding remit impressed upon him as he took pen in hand. Whatever you do, don’t make Alien3. That ...