Alien — the creature and the franchise — is a shape-shifter. In the interplanetary dystopia of the Alien movies, the parasitic creature that parasitic CEOs are always trying to capture — and that blue ...

Nine movies in, assumptions start to pile up like a precarious Jenga tower that every ounce of originality’s been squeezed out of the lucrative “Alien” franchise Ridley Scott erected. Just burn that ...