Besides the original cult hit film, the sci-fi franchise Alien Nation also encompasses a TV series and several TV movies ...

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 ...

The series “Alien: Earth” feels a bit like the “Alien” franchise crash-landed into an entirely separate science fiction saga, because that’s more or less how it begins. The show is creator Noah Hawley ...

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 ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook The series is set in 2120, two years before the USCSS Nostromo would discover and harvest the ...

Trib Total Media TV writer Rob Owen offers a viewing tip for the coming week. In lesser hands, a series spinoff of the theatrical “Alien” franchise might seem like just another IP play — a money grab.

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 ...