Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Mark Hughes is an entertainment writer covering cinema and genre TV. Filmmaker Fede Álvarez’s anxiously awaited legacy sequel ...

One fan compared the show to the original Alien movie and called it a must-watch for fans of the franchise. OK. So #AlienEarth is fucking amazing. The pacing is a bit slow in the first episode, but ...

FX's show Alien: Earth will premiere on August 12, 2025, and early reviews from critics are already hinting at an exciting series to come. Ahead of its release next week, Alien: Earth has already ...

Alien: Earth is a love letter to the franchise, but instead of a survival story centred on a select few characters, the series delivers a completely fresh tale, putting the corporations front and ...

What’s Good: Alvarez delivers on the gore and tension department, and also there is a bonkers third act that might be the best thing in the film. What’s Bad: The first act and the characters are a bit ...

The Alien universe is back, baby. Unsurprisingly, attempting to experiment on the alien goes horribly wrong for the scientists. As a result, their facility -- a massive ship split between parts ...

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 ...

I don’t know which is sloppier – the crew of the USCSS Maginot or the writing on Alien: Earth. At long last, in Episode 5, we get to see what happened aboard the Weyland-Yutani research vessel. We ...

Er... not really, it's more a case of reshuffling themes from previous incarnations. Alien: Earth transports us to 2120, two years before the events related in Scott ...