Quite a bit of movie magic made "Alien" the sci-fi horror classic it is -- but one of its biggest challenges was solved with a simple low-tech tactic.

Ridley Scott's inimitable 1979 sci-fi thriller, Alien, expertly ratchets up the tension by not having the titular alien show up on screen until roughly an hour into the film. Following in Scott's ...

Ridley Scott's ALIEN (1979) gets a full movie breakdown and analysis by Erik Voss on The Deep Dive! Sign up to Milanote for free with no time-limit: Alien is one of the best films of all time, a true ...

The simulation hypothesis—the idea that our universe might be an artificial construct running on some advanced alien computer—has long captured the public imagination. Yet most arguments about it rest ...

Every TV season is made up of a certain number of episodes, and each TV episode is made up of a certain number of scenes. The best of those scenes linger in the memory long after you’ve moved on to ...

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I’m team Renner on this one. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Renner shared the behind-the-scenes nugget during a Space Con 2025 ...

Veronica Cartwright, who played Lambert in the 1979 sci-fi horror film Alien, recently discussed a deleted scene with co-star Sigourney Weaver. During a recent New York Comic Con reunion panel, the ...

Veronica Cartwright is looking back at the time that she had to repeatedly slap Sigourney Weaver as part of a later deleted Alien scene. The actress, who played Nostromo navigator Lambert, revealed ...

As the latest (and first small-screen) installment of the beloved Alien franchise, Alien: Earth has a lot to live up to – and lead prosthetics artist Steven Painter says he felt that the most strongly ...