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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

With Alien Covenant out in cinemas Christopher Machell looks back at HR Giger's greatest creation and analyses exactly what it is that gives it its ferocious and lasting power A deleted scene, ...

NB: The following contains spoilers for Prometheus, and possible spoiler-filled conjecture for Alien: Covenant. On one level, Prometheus was everything you might have expected from an Alien movie: a ...

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 ...

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 ...

A sequel to the prequel, this Alien instalment sees the return of Michael Fassbender in dual roles. It’s a long, flat, no-frills journey which struggles to engage despite its bloody shocks. Shot ...