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Extraterrestrial life has captivated human imagination long before cinema existed, but it was film that gave aliens their faces, voices, and personalities. From the moment audiences watched a rocket ...

Much like a Xenomorph bursting through your chest, Alien first surprised audiences more than 45 years ago, and it hasn't stopped growing since. With nine films (including the two Predator crossovers), ...

The Alien franchise may be host (a charged word around these parts) to some of the best sci-fi movies of all time, but it's still suffers from something many long-running film series do: an ...