Half a century after “Close Encounters of the Third Kind,” the director returns to the subject of UFOs with “Disclosure Day.” His science fiction films are informed by his fascination with alien ...

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Luc Haasbroek is a writer and videographer from Durban, South Africa. He has been writing professionally about pop culture for eight years. Luc's areas of interest are broad: he's just as passionate ...

The incoming release of Alien: Earth is a great excuse to dig through Weyland Corp’s files and rank all the Alien movies (plus the new series). Our to-do list: devise an improvised flamethrower, ...

The Covenant expedition survivors, after being rescued from a Neomorph by David, hole up inside a large temple in the heart of the decimated Engineers' city. It's a place where David has been living ...

As one of the most recognizable franchises in sci-fi horror history, looking at the Alien movies ranked shows how varied the series has been. Though Sigourney Weaver's Ellen Ripley is an icon of both ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

From low-budget splatter flicks to studio favorites, horror is a malleable genre capable of revealing the depths of human darkness. In Wes Craven’s “Scream” — not quite the definitive horror movie but ...

For more than 100 years, movies have captured audiences' imagination and wonder, depicting true love, daring adventures, terrifying chills and gut-busting laughs. One could say it's a fool's errand to ...

Alien: Covenant was unfairly dismissed as a ho-hum retread, but it was a deliciously bloody return to the horror roots of the franchise. Ridley Scott took a bold approach by blending horror and ...

Since its creation in December 1987, Hamas has invoked militant interpretations of Islam to spearhead a Sunni extremist movement committed to destroying Israel. Hamas distanced itself from the ...

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