A plan was then formed between Ripley and the weaponless inmates of Fury 161: to trap the Runner in a nuclear waste storage tank by igniting the toxic air to force it inside. This plan failed and many ...

Ripley manages to contain the threat while discovering that she was incubating a Queen Chestburster for the whole movie, causing her to sacrifice herself at the last moment in a moment of intense ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. With Women Of Action, Caroline Siede digs into the history of women-driven action movies to explore what these stories say about ...

When the universe as we know it collapses, the only creatures with a chance of surviving to see the next age would be akin to Ridley Scott’s xenomorphs. Like the “Alien” franchise itself, they’re ...

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Ellen Ripley is the warrant officer assigned to the USCSS Nostromo who encounters a hostile alien, the Xenomorph, when its embryo is brought back onto the ship. She's the protagonist of four Alien ...

For many fans, the behind-the-scenes strife of Alien 3 is as well-known as its on-screen excess: This is the movie that almost permanently pushed David Fincher out of Hollywood. Fincher inherited a ...

For more than 30 years, cinephiles would scoff at those who suggested the Alien franchise took a nose dive after Alien and Aliens. Few would seriously argue that the third entry exceeds the Ridley ...