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Breaded fish fillet on a bed of rice and vegetables.
Incoming

You too can eat like an alien with the new Star Wars cookbook

by Charles Bramesco

Have din­ner at Maz Kanata’s can­teen from the com­fort of your own kitchen.
Two astronaut-like figures in white suits standing over a prone figure on a dusty ground, with an old car in the background.
Home Ents

Discover the pressure-cooker tension of this alien invasion thriller

by Anton Bitel

Robert Wise’s 1971 sci-fi The Androm­e­da Strain tapped into space race and Cold War anxieties.
Silhouetted figure seated at control panels in dimly lit, futuristic sci-fi environment.
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Ridley Scott is still planning to direct another Alien prequel

by Charles Bramesco

The director’s next instal­ment in the fran­chise will com­plete the tril­o­gy start­ed by Prometheus and Covenant.
Brooding male face in black and white, with dramatic lighting and shadows.
Film Music

How to write music for movie trailers

by Paul Weedon

Ursine Vulpine, whose work has appeared in teasers for Alien: Covenant and The Last Jedi, dis­cuss­es his cre­ative process.
Silhouetted figure seated at control panels in dimly lit, futuristic sci-fi environment.
Incoming

Ridley Scott is already working on the sequel to Alien: Covenant

by Amy Bowker

Film­ing will begin with­in ​‘the next 14 months’ accord­ing to the director.
Two young women in uniform sitting at a desk, looking thoughtful.

Why Alien’s gender politics run a lot deeper than Ellen Ripley

by Thomas Hobbs

The rev­e­la­tion that Lam­bert is a trans woman trans­forms what we know about Rid­ley Scott’s sci-fi horror.
Close-up of a large tarantula on a person's hand, showing its hairy legs and body.

How the creature in Alien inspired a generation of SFX artists

by Mike Kelt

Award-win­ning prac­ti­cal effects artist Mike Kelt pays trib­ute to HR Giger and Car­lo Rambaldi’s icon­ic monster.
A person in a dark environment, holding a firearm with a serious expression.
Review

Alien: Covenant

by Adam Woodward

Rid­ley Scott deliv­ers a baroque mon­ster movie that’s bet­ter than Prometheus.

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In Retrospect
Intense profile shot of a man's face, partially obscured by a monstrous creature. Dramatic lighting creates stark contrasts between light and shadow.
In Praise Of

How the Alien saga went from trilogy to franchise

by Ethan Vestby

Ever since its unlike­ly res­ur­rec­tion in the late ​’90s, the sci-fi hor­ror series has con­tin­ued to evolve.
The Thing: Infection at Outpost 31. A snowy, icy landscape with a military outpost in the distance, depicted with a dark, ominous style and bold typography.
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John Carpenter’s The Thing is being turned into a board game

by Amy Bowker

It’s the Antarc­tic alien thriller adap­ta­tion we didn’t know we needed.