This review contains mild spoilers for “Alien: Earth,” Season 1. FX’s new “Alien” prequel, “Alien: Earth,” batters viewers expecting Xenomorph horror from an additional, less expected angle: The ...

With Alien: Earth, Noah Hawley expands the universe of the cinematic franchise in new ways. Read our spoiler-free review of season one. The Alien franchise has been terrifying audiences since 1979.

For those uninitiated, the Alien film franchise (starting with 1979's Alien) centers on humans trying to survive an encounter with a fearsome alien species that is a certified killing machine, with ...

The rich irony at the heart of the storied “Alien” franchise is that at the core of these encounters with the monstrous animal is a question of what, in fact, makes us truly human. The grand twist of ...