When Fede Álvarez decided to make “Alien: Romulus,” he knew from the outset that he wanted to honor not just “Alien” and Aliens,” the most acclaimed and popular films in the series, but its entire ...

Before we talk about the energetic-but-empty Alien: Romulus, we need to talk about the Alien movie franchise. When Ridley Scott's Alien debuted in 1979, it helped set the template for both horror and ...

This article contains spoilers for Alien: Earth episode 4. No Alien project can ever recapture the sense of cosmic horror upon seeing H.R. Giger’s xenomorph for the first time. So when it came time to ...

Back when Alien: Earth premiered on FX and Hulu, all of three weeks ago, IGN’s Clint Gage said in his review of the first two episodes that, “The xenomorph is playing the hits, as it were. But this ...

The setup for Romulus is reminiscent of Álvarez’s own calling card film, 2016’s Don’t Breathe. A group of twentysomethings born into poverty on a corporate-owned mining planet seize on an opportunity ...

A louder, jump scare-riddled take on the Alien formula doesn't prove to be a better one as Alien: Romulus desperately tries to recall what made the franchise's first two movies great. "Get away from ...

Even so, he built a pivotal part of the “Romulus” story around a character who died in the original movie: Ash, the synthetic human played by the late Ian Holm with chilling obedience to the franchise ...

Although Prometheus arrived over a decade ago, Alien: Romulus means that the Alien prequel’s best new character is more pivotal to the series than ever. Prometheus’s connections to the original Alien ...

Boy Kavalier’s plan will almost certainly end very badly for everyone involved — except probably the Eyeball, which has proven it can nudge any situation to its advantage. Photo: Hulu For many tuning ...