I have long been a defender of Alien 3. David Fincher‘s (Se7en) debut feature was an utterly disastrous production, riddled with constant restarts and studio interference. And yet, the filmmaker still ...

Nearly every major studio has taken a turn at spinning a great sci-fi franchise, and while there have been a few misfires along the way, arguably the biggest success of them all is Alien. Ridley Scott ...

Seven years passed between the release of Ridley Scott's "Alien" in 1979 and the arrival of James Cameron's action-heavy follow-up "Aliens" in 1986. In that time, while a new generation of ...

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Before going on to helm Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom, director J.A. Bayona delivered an unheralded coming-of-age classic in A Monster Calls. Adapted by writer Patrick Ness from his own 2011 young ...