Brian Johnson, who has died aged 86, was an Oscar-winning visual effects maestro and modelling specialist who contributed significantly to the look of modern science fiction.

A look at 10 of the greatest alien sci-fi movies, from Ridley Scott's Alien to Denis Villeneuve's Arrival, none by Steven Spielberg.

These wildly different films explore the wondrous, and sometimes terrifying possibilities of contacting extra-terrestrial life.

The Time Lord's adventures won't continue on Disney+... or anywhere else in the near future. After traveling in space and time for 60+ years, not all the fun was available on a single streaming ...

The Xenomorph from the Alien film franchise is one of the coolest, most nefarious movie monsters ever hatched, with its acid blood, mouths-within-mouths, and diabolical claws. It pretty much ...

Alien begins as a workplace space mission and ends as a survival story about corporate betrayal. Ridley Scott’s 1979 sci-fi horror film follows the crew of the commercial ship Nostromo after Mother ...

Alien (1979) Alien is a 1979 science fiction horror film directed by Ridley Scott and written by Dan O'Bannon. Based on a story by O'Bannon and Ronald Shusett, it follows the crew of the commercial ...

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When Ridley Scott first premiered “Alien” in 1979, a new era of practical effects and creature design was ushered into the cultural zeitgeist. Almost 50 years later, the world that Scott built ...