The first trailer for Alien: Covenant, the sequel to 2012’s Prometheus and second prequel to 1979’s Alien was, essentially, a two-minute bloodbath. For those disappointed by Prometheus’s focus on the ...

With their bad robots, evil capitalists, terrifying xenomorphs and exploding humans, the Alien films turned cinema into a primal freakout zone. As the latest lands, here’s what made them so ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Don't expect to see too many of these in the Chinese 'Alien: Covenant' - Credit: 20th Century Fox Ever wanted to watch an ‘Alien’ ...

Alien: Covenant is the movie every card-carrying Alien fan wanted to be great...but most of them knew deep down it probably wouldn't be the convincing apology for Prometheus that Ridley Scott ...

Get the latest entertainment news, reviews and star-studded interviews with our Independent Culture email Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter It was pitched as “Jaws in ...

Despite Ridley Scott's now infamous claim that Prometheus was not an Alien film - that it was simply set in the same universe but would not tie up with the 1979 classic - its direct sequel definitely ...

Where does Alien: Covenant fit into the whole Alien movies timeline? Why isn't Noomi Rapace's Elizabeth Shaw in it when Prometheus seemed to set up her as the main character in the sequel? Why were ...

When the final credits rolled on Ridley Scott’s Prometheus in 2012, the cloying sensation was not of wondrous, terrifying stories still to be told, but of writers having just painted themselves into a ...

Robbie Collin has been a film critic for 20 years, during which time his reviews have seen him temporarily blacklisted by two major studios, dressed down in front of a Bafta committee and thrown off a ...

Get the latest entertainment news, reviews and star-studded interviews with our Independent Culture email Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Neil Blomkamp and Sigourney ...

Ten years after the events of Prometheus, the second Alien prequel from Ridley Scott sees a colony ship from Earth - called, you guessed it, Covenant - answer a distress call on an isolated but ...

Ridley Scott returns to direct the eighth film in the classic horror franchise. But how does it match up to its predecessors? Nicholas Barber takes a look. If there is one thing the universe isn’t ...