Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Simon is a Los Angeles-based journalist who covers film and TV. It's been a big year for the Alien franchise. Not only did the ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover Hollywood and entertainment. Alien: Romulus—the latest smash hit in Ridley Scott’s classic Alien franchise—is new on 4K ...

In space, no one can hear you scream, but they can sure hear you scratching your head as you try to make sense of the sprawling “Alien” universe. While Ridley Scott’s 1979 haunted-house-in-the-cosmos ...

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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 ...