As much as Steven Spielberg likes aliens, he seems to prefer holding them at arm’s length. The creatures in Close Encounters ...

These wildly different films explore the wondrous, and sometimes terrifying possibilities of contacting extra-terrestrial ...

If you ask me, out of all the Batmobiles that graced the silver screen in the various live-action adaptations of the Caped Crusader, including the animated Batman series on Prime Video, the version ...

From cerebral game-changers like 2001: A Space Odyssey to brilliant satires like Galaxy Quest, these sci-fi movies are ...

Ripley and a team of space marines battle a group of Aliens - and this time they ve brought their mother. It also stands as testament to the unwavering vision and icy nerve of James Cameron (here ...

You can thank Swiss artist HR Giger for unleashing on the world cinema’s greatest ever monster to haunt the silver screen. It’s hard to overstate just what an impact Alien made on movie audiences back ...

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From the Nostromo to the Earth of 2120: from 1979 to today, the design of the Alien universe has never ceased to convey the fears, ideologies, and infrastructures of science fiction. The set design of ...

Simply sign up to the Film myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. The challenge of special effects is how to enchant an audience while remaining invisible. It is a magic trick where neither ...

Anyone who’s ever said “Game over, man! Game OoOveR!” needs to fire up Aliens Expanded (now strraming on Shudder), a ridiculously in-depth making-of/legacy documentary about Aliens that will occupy ...

Be it sci-fi, immigration or even artificial intelligence, the concept of aliens mirrors how we define fear, fascination and the "others" among us. What springs to mind at the mention of "alien"?

Within the dark hallways and blinking fluorescent lights of “Alien: Earth,” you’ll catch a small (but frightening) glimpse of a 6’2 Xenomorph lurking in the background. It’s the kind of thing that ...