To call Ridley Scott’s 1979 film Alien a seminal work feels like an understatement. Not only did the original film beget numerous sequels, prequels, and spinoffs over the course of decades, but it has ...

After Ripley escapes with her cat, Jonesy, on the Nostromo’s escape ship just before the interstellar cargo freighter explodes, she at first breathes a sigh of relief that the monstrous alien creature ...