This summer’s Alien: Earth TV series serves up more than one kind monster – something we’ve seen before in the long-running Alien franchise… NB: The following contains a spoiler for Alien: Romulus.

While the Alien franchise has plenty of memorable legacy characters, Alien: Romulus ensured that only one of them needs to return for the next outing. The Alien movies have a messy timeline that can ...

When Fede Álvarez decided to make “Alien: Romulus,” he knew from the outset that he wanted to honor not just “Alien” and Aliens,” the most acclaimed and popular films in the series, but its entire ...

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Back when Alien: Earth premiered on FX and Hulu, all of three weeks ago, IGN’s Clint Gage said in his review of the first two episodes that, “The xenomorph is playing the hits, as it were. But this ...

Episode 6 is called “The Fly” because it is the moment that the titular fly, the last species of the five monster specimens, finally makes its appearance – and it’s a lethal debut. While Kirsh ...

The setup for Romulus is reminiscent of Álvarez’s own calling card film, 2016’s Don’t Breathe. A group of twentysomethings born into poverty on a corporate-owned mining planet seize on an opportunity ...

When Alien: Earth debuts it will bring one of Hollywood’s most important sci-fi horror franchises to the small screen. It will also arrive with monster expectations and a loyal fanbase. Those are the ...

“Get away from her–you bitch,” a character stutters in a relative monotone, turning an iconic moment from Aliens into a somewhat more halting, slightly funnier one in Alien: Romulus. What compelled ...

Even so, he built a pivotal part of the “Romulus” story around a character who died in the original movie: Ash, the synthetic human played by the late Ian Holm with chilling obedience to the franchise ...