Left to Right: Steven Yeun in "Nope," the alien in Steven Spielberg's "E.T." and Scarlett Johansson in "Under the Skin" (Universal Pictures / A24) It didn’t take long for stories about ...

The White House has launched a website that, at first glance, appears to offer classified intelligence about extraterrestrials. In actuality, it provides information on the arrests of immigrants.

I think of the work of Frederick Wiseman, and my mind is drawn, immediately, to the faces. The blank stare of a monkey whose head, stem still attached, has been painstakingly severed from its body, ...

Burst into the Alien franchise in the right order.

June is almost upon us, which means that the most popular streaming services are starting to roll out the lists of all the new movies and TV shows that they are planing to add in the coming month.

Fede Alvarez was 12 in 1990 when he pressed play on a destiny-shaping VHS tape. The Uruguayan filmmaker, then a burgeoning cinephile, was about to witness one of the first kills in the original “Alien ...

If you were a movie fan in the 1980s, then you have at least a little soft spot for the Cannon Group. Walk through any video store, and you’d be greeted by covers featuring oiled up men, steely ninjas ...

José R. Ralat is Texas Monthly’s taco editor, writing about tacos and Mexican food. For Omar Lopez, who grew up in the Panhandle town of Wheeler and now lives in Amarillo, “beaner” calls to mind ...

[dropcap size=big]T[/dropcap]hough officially just a few months old, the Banc of California stadium in Exposition Park holds more than a half-century of history. The ...

In September 1979 the release of Alien would cement little known director Ridley Scott’s place in film and assured us that in space no one can hear you scream. A mere seven years later and with James ...