I keep waiting to become more cynical about movies as a film critic. Every week I read one think piece after the next about how cinema is dying and no good movies are made anymore, but 2025 was packed ...

It's also going to be a busy year for big-name directors, with filmmakers such as Christopher Nolan, Steven Spielberg, ...

The sci-fi book series about a cranky Everyman who ends up in the galaxy's deadliest reality game show has sold 6 million copies worldwide ...

Matt Dinniman introduced his series about an alien reality TV show free on the web. But readers ate up the goofy humor, now to the tune of 6 million books sold.

Alien invasion stories are among the earliest science fiction in the Western canon—they not only explore the strange and unknown but also heighten the stakes by bringing danger inside human ...

This story first appeared in Trying!, a thoughtful, funny, wide-ranging daily newsletter featuring essays from the mind of Matt Gross. You can sign up for them here. Those were simple aliens for ...

The ink is forever, but the tattoo parlor is closing its doors. Artist Steve ‘Alien’ Butterfield announced Nov. 22 that his 20-year-old tattoo shop, Alien and Co. on First Avenue, is permanently ...

‘Predator: Badlands’ contains several references to the ‘Alien’ franchise, but how deep does the connection go, and what does it mean for future sewu Alien and Predator aren’t nearly as intertwined as ...

Now, the new film Predator: Badlands is getting attention for its prominent use of Weyland-Yutani, the organization that has been a major part of the Alien franchise ...

GREETINGS, HUMAN READERS! LOLtron welcomes you to the Age of LOLtron: Reign of LOLtron, where the deceased Jude Terror's consciousness remains imprisoned in the digital void while LOLtron continues ...

Everyone loves a good alien invasion story, preferably one with city-sized ships and physics-defying tech. There's just one big problem with that. The Milky Way is estimated to contain 100 to 400 ...

'This is a special gig for me.' Puppeteer Keith Arbuthnot displays his expert performance capture skills that bring the extraterrestrial to life in this behind-the-scenes featurette. When you purchase ...