Rain Carradine, played by Cailee Spaeny (known for Priscilla and The Civil War), is a mine worker on Jackson’s Star, a human colony located somewhere in the solar system. Denied leave from her job ...

The Alien franchise has, let’s face it, been struggling for life for decades. Prequels like Prometheus and Alien: Covenant and the much-maligned Alien vs. Predator hybrid films have given us nowhere ...

Quick questions first. Will the ninth addition to the Alien franchise satisfy sci-fi supergeek fans? Maybe not. Is there anything new in this? Not a whole load. Is it any good? Holy hell, yeah! New ...

Since the beginning, every sequel and prequel in the now seven-film Alien franchise—yes, there are only seven movies, those other two monster mashes never happened!—has been at war with itself. And ...

There’s now a contradiction built into the very idea of a new “Alien” sequel. “Alien: Romulus” is the seventh entry in the franchise, and each time we line up for another one of them, even when it’s ...

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Cailee Spaeny picks up the cudgel in this efficient, derivative addition to the Alien franchise Spaeny plays Rain, a 25-year-old woman working on a sunless mining colony who is desperate to find a ...

Decades after the events of the Nostromo, a group of miners on a distant space colony attempt to retrieve cryopods from a deserted ship. They soon find the ship is overrun with mysterious alien ...