Alien: Earth is already ahead of the poorly received Alien 3, which has a Rotten rating of 44% on Rotten Tomatoes, and Alien Resurrection, which has a rating of 55%. As for other prequels in the Alien ...

The Alien franchise has always been deceptively auteur-driven. For as much as it is undeniably a monumental work of science fiction that has been franchised across the decades and turned into an ...

“Alien: Earth” opens with a dense ream of exposition, though it boils down to just a couple important takeaways. (As Hawley pointed out to my colleague Daniel D’Addario in a cover story for this ...

The xenomorphs are the iconic mascots of the Alien franchise, with good reason. The creature designs by H.R. Giger are legendary in their ability to unnerve us: the elongated eyeless head, the black ...

The description “genre-defying” gets thrown around a lot these days – it is a convenient sticking plaster for any film or series that hasn’t quite figured out what it wants to be. That said, it is an ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. We're creeping into the final few episodes of Alien: Earth, and we've ...

Noah Hawley recently said of his plan for Alien: Earth, the first TV show based on the iconic science-fiction/action-horror film series, “Imagine if there were five ...

Showrunner Noah Hawley leaned into the ‘Alien’ franchise’s retro-futurism when making ‘Alien: Earth,’ adding Peter Pan mythology to the mix. The series is set in 2120, two years before the events of ...

The Alien (or Xenomorph) is the least impressive aspect of FX's ambitious science-fiction series about a near-future where corporations run the world, and their founders' pursuit of immortality may ...

It is not the least of this world’s wonders that it’s been nearly half a century since Ellen Ripley, in the person of Sigourney Weaver, sent the Alien, in the person of a person in an Alien suit, ...

In space, no one can hear you scream, but they can sure hear you scratching your head as you try to make sense of the sprawling “Alien” universe. While Ridley Scott’s 1979 haunted-house-in-the-cosmos ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. In yesterday's episode of Alien: Earth, we saw an unexpected connection ...