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Alien

August 2026

  • Michael Fassbender, lit in teal, examines a small robotic device in a scene from Alien: Covenant

    Week in geek
    Memo to Ridley Scott: no one needs more Alien: Covenant movies – get the franchise back to stalk’n’slash

    Ben Child
  • A biomechanical alien creature with an elongated head crouches menacingly in a dark corridor

    Summer games previews
    Alien: Isolation 2 – another strong female protagonist stalked in a terrifying new world

July 2026

  • Sigourney Weaver holds a futuristic rifle weapon in a dark blue-lit environment in the film Aliens

    Pushing Buttons newsletter
    After 40 years, Aliens is still shaping the way video games are made

    Newsletter
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    ‘Maybe the best pumped-up sequel ever made’: James Cameron’s Aliens hits 40

February 2026

  • David Jonsson

    ‘Every role I do, I’m going to be a Black man first’: David Jonsson on winning Baftas, rebooting Alien and leaving TV’s hottest show

    He went from being the east London boy who was expelled from school to becoming the Bafta award‑winning star of Alien: Romulus. Ahead of his prison drama Wasteman, David Jonsson discusses the pressures of being a leading Black British actor

November 2025

  • Back for more … the return of the Predator franchise.

    Now you've seen it
    Predator: Badlands – exiled hunters, rogue androids and unkillable monsters – discuss with spoilers

    The latest instalment dismantles expectations surrounding predator and prey while tearing up the crossover cinema rulebook

October 2025

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    ‘Left me physically exhausted’: readers on their most stressful movies ever

    After Guardian writers shared their picks, readers responded with films including Gravity, Paranormal Activity and The Road

September 2025

  • Alien: Earth’s killer sheep.

    The most evil TV villain ever? Alien: Earth’s ‘demon sheep eye’ is a work of true genius

    Sure, the xenomorph is an all-time great screen baddie – but it’s no match for the eyeball-octopus parasite stuffed in a sheep’s head

August 2025

  • Ridley Scott

    Film & Music reader interview
    ‘I turned down $20m to do Terminator 3. I can’t be bought, dude’: Ridley Scott on directing, Daleks and ... cherry jam

  • Samuel Blenkin in Alien: Earth

    The monstrosity of mankind: in Alien: Earth, the real villain is humanity

  • "Alien: Covenant" - World Premiere - Red Carpet Arrivals<br>LONDON, ENGLAND - MAY 04: Ridley Scott attends the World Premiere of "Alien: Covenant" at Odeon Leicester Square on May 4, 2017 in London, England. (Photo by Mike Marsland/WireImage)

    Film & Music reader interview
    Post your questions for Ridley Scott

  • ‘A humourless cyborg’ … Babou Ceesay as Morrow in Alien: Earth.

    TV review
    Alien: Earth review – TV that bristles with bone-deep dread

  • The watcher
    Alien: Earth – Ridley Scott’s terrifying space monster finally comes to TV … and it’s properly creepy

  • ‘Alien is a warning, isn’t it?’: Essie Davis on Alien: Earth and Tasmania’s ecological crisis

July 2025

  • Sydney Chandler in Alien: Earth.

    ‘It’s the best monster ever invented’: Noah Hawley on bringing Ridley Scott’s Alien to TV

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    My feelgood movie
    ‘Always provided a release’: why Aliens is my feelgood movie

May 2025

  • The robots C-3PO and R2-D2 in the original 1977 Star Wars film – Dilley built several different versions of R2-D2 from designs by Ralph McQuarrie before the decision was taken to put a human inside.

    Leslie Dilley obituary

    Art director who won Oscars for his work on Star Wars and Raiders of the Lost Ark, and nominations for Alien, The Empire Strikes Back and The Abyss

April 2025

  • Predator: Badlands teaser trailer screengrab. Elle Fanning

    Week in geek
    Can Predator: Badlands finally prove a shared universe with Alien was a good idea?

    With the film’s promising teaser trailer, the world’s eyes have flipped silver and it’s party time in the cryo-sarcophagus aisle of Space Ikea!

December 2024

  • A still from the documentary Alien on Stage.

    Am-dram Alien documentary comes to TV as ‘unintentional pantomime’

    Documentary about amateur theatre group’s take on classic horror film made available to wider audience

November 2024

  • Cailee Spaeny in Alien: Romulus.

    Week in geek
    Alien: Romulus thrilled fans – how can its follow-up avoid the saga’s past mistakes?

    As Romulus shows, the series is best when it keeps to its slasher-in-space formula – anything more and the old beast starts creaking like a colony ship
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