Ellen Ripley is the best action heroine of all time, without question. Just look at two of the most iconic images of Ripley. One finds her cradling Newt (Carrie Henn), the survivor of a xenomorph ...

Warning: Spoilers for Alien: Romulus may lie ahead. With Alien: Romulus set to receive a sequel after convincing most critics and fans, co-writer and director Fede Álvarez has been spending a lot of ...

Sigourney Weaver shocked fans of the Alien franchise when, back in October 2025, she revealed that she had read a 50-page treatment by franchise producer Walter Hill for a new Alien movie. More than ...

With Women Of Action, Caroline Siede digs into the history of women-driven action movies to explore what these stories say about gender and how depictions of female action heroes have evolved over ...

In 1979, Sigourney Weaver, then a relative unknown, became a huge star thanks to her breakout performance as Ellen Ripley in Ridley Scott's Alien. In a world dominated by male heroes, Ripley was a ...

In space, no one can hear you scream. The movie theater is a different story. The spine-chilling sci-fi horror franchise “Alien” returns this week with “Alien: Romulus,” featuring a new crew of young, ...

They say that in space, no one can hear you scream. That’s not the case for Fede Álvarez’s Alien: Romulus, which brought the dormant Alien franchise out of hypersleep and scored an impressive $350.9 ...

Sigourney Weaver is an acting legend who's been making movies for half a decade; but no matter what she does, she will always be most remembered for her role as Ellen Ripley in the first four Alien ...

Kristy Ambrose has been writing professionally since 2010. She dabbles in various genres, but her favorites are fantasy and science fiction. She creates everything from fanfiction to serialized novels ...