Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Mark Hughes is an entertainment writer covering cinema and genre TV. Filmmaker Fede Álvarez’s anxiously awaited legacy sequel ...

The beauty of the “Alien” franchise is that it has always allowed room for distinctive filmmakers to play with their own aesthetics and themes. Ridley Scott’s taut, philosophical space-thriller “Alien ...

There’s a moment midway through Fede Álvarez’s Alien: Romulus when two unlucky passengers witness the cocoon birth of a fully grown Xenomorph. Its bony claws tear a path out of a wasp-like nest on a ...