Certain movie moments just stick with you for life, and the scene in which a creature bursts out of John Hurt's chest in the film was gory enough to get our stomachs churning—but for the actors on set ...

When Ridley Scott first premiered “Alien” in 1979, a new era of practical effects and creature design was ushered into the cultural zeitgeist. Almost 50 years later, the world that Scott built ...

With any fandom, there are always specific ideas about how and why things can and should work. That can be true on an individual basis, or a global basis as the fanbase argues about “canon” – what is, ...