FX's new series Alien: Earth opens with a scene familiar to any fans of the storied science fiction horror film franchise: A crew of dysfunctional, blue-collar workers waking from extended hibernation ...

With his new movie, Disclosure Day, Steven Spielberg wonders how humankind would react to undeniable proof of the existence of extraterrestrials. It's a subject that pop culture has been fascinated ...

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All fiction is metaphor,” wrote Ursula K Le Guin. “Science fiction is metaphor.” The writer, most famous for her Earthsea fantasy novels, captured the civil rights movement, second-wave feminism and ...

Right from the jump it's clear that FX's new series Alien: Earth is paying homage and gets its influence from the first two movies in the Alien franchise. The show's creator Noah Hawley (Legion, Fargo ...

As much as Steven Spielberg likes aliens, he seems to prefer holding them at arm’s length. The creatures in Close Encounters of the Third Kind contact humans using music and lights, but the director ...

The Alien universe is back, baby. Unsurprisingly, attempting to experiment on the alien goes horribly wrong for the scientists. As a result, their facility -- a massive ship split between parts ...

Hilary Benn has been pressed over his reaction to a claim that beheading people is an “alien culture”.

With the release of Disclosure Day, Steven Spielberg’s new film about aliens, a question as old as science fiction itself resurfaces: if aliens were to arrive on Earth, would they come to conquer us, ...

The original “Alien” (1979) was, like many other blockbuster movies of the day, a slow burn. Painstakingly it set the stage and allowed the tension to simmer while holding off on the mayhem. A ...