In much the same way as new film Alien: Romulus refers back to earlier entries in the franchise, its score, composed by Benjamin Wallfisch, contains nods to the music written for the previous movies.

It’s one of the all-time great science fiction film scores, but did you know that the making of Alien (1979) was defined by a composer-director disagreement? Temperamental Hollywood auteur Ridley ...

The Alien films never produced a musical theme that infiltrated pop culture the way their spacefaring peers Star Wars or Star Trek did, but the scores did make a mark. Jerry Goldsmith’s floating, ...