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Ridley Scott's ALIEN (1979) gets a full movie breakdown and analysis by Erik Voss on The Deep Dive! Sign up to Milanote for free with no time-limit: Alien is one of the best films of all time, a true ...

Case in point: James Cameron’s Aliens took a sharp turn from Ridley Scott’s original film, changing the tone from a sci-fi/horror nightmare to an action-horror thrill ride. Cameron was clearly ...

Sigourney Weaver has given an update regarding her return to the Alien franchise. Weaver is known for playing Ellen Ripley in the Alien franchise, with the character having appeared in 1979’s Alien, ...

Alien: Earth promised something new when it first aired: a throwback to the original horror-sci-fi experience of the Alien movies, but remade for modern television. And overall, it did deliver, with ...

If I had a nickel for every film that fell through in Hollywood, I’d be as rich as those jerks at Weyland Yutani. Thus was the case for District 9 director Neill Blomkamp’s once highly anticipated ...

During a special screening of Alien at the Cinémathèque Française in Paris, Sigourney Weaver sat down for an hour-long masterclass called “A Lesson in Cinema,” a deep dive into her legendary career ...

On Friday, November 7th, 2025, a screening of 1979’s Alien took place at the Cinémathèque Française in Paris, France. Following the film, actress Sigourney Weaver gave a 60-minute masterclass titled, ...

Ever since the release of the original Ridley Scott-directed 1979 film, Alien has felt like an expansive universe full of potential. Even before it was a franchise in its own right, even just that ...

Veronica Cartwright said she had to get inventive in order to hit Weaver because "every time I went to slap Sigourney, she ducked." ...

In 2020, “Alien” co-writers and franchise producers Walter Hill and the late David Giler had been trying to get the studio to bite on their treatment for “Alien 5” with Sigourney Weaver back as the ...