Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. News and opinion about video games, television, movies and the internet. I am a bit surprised to be writing this at all, as I figured with “Alien: Earth” already being the longest ...

When Alien: Romulus burst onto the big screen, it felt like the franchise had finally been reborn. From the terrifying Xenomorphs to the claustrophobic horror and jaw-dropping tension, it captured everything fans love about the series while still feeling ...

Most Alien movies end in explosions and bloodshed, but with FX’s Alien: Earth, creator Noah Hawley took a different approach. To unpack the show's season 1 finale, Polygon spoke to Hawley and star Sydney Chandler, who broke down the final moments and ...

The Alien movies have long attracted some big-name — or soon-to-be big-name — directors to show off their chops. After sci-fi legend Ridley Scott established the story in Alien, a pre-Titanic James Cameron stepped in next for Aliens, followed by future ...

Sigourney Weaver shocked fans of the Alien franchise when, back in October 2025, she revealed that she had read a 50-page treatment by franchise producer Walter Hill for a new Alien movie. More than reading it, Weaver said she was in talks to return to the ...

In its penultimate episode, Alien: Earth does something that only a show set on Earth could do: take the Xenomorph outside into the sun. While the movies all take place on dimly lit spaceships or dark, alien planets, the FX series is largely set on a ...

I don’t know which is sloppier – the crew of the USCSS Maginot or the writing on Alien: Earth. At long last, in Episode 5, we get to see what happened aboard the Weyland-Yutani research vessel. We only caught glimpses of it in the season premiere.

I could be the best pathologist on planet earth—the undisputed Sherlock Holmes of medical science, even—and I still wouldn’t have the slightest clue what the cause of death is for this particular alien corpse.