Back in 1979, Ridley Scott revolutionized the sci-fi horror genre with Alien, but several other movies rival its success and influence. Alien brought Sigourney Weaver into the mainstream as Ellen ...

William likes watching movies and writing about those movies. Anything else is minutae. Horror is a special genre. So is science fiction. In film, both rely on a mastery of tone, pacing and often an ...

Greatness can come from anywhere.

It didn’t take long for stories about extraterrestrials to reach our cinemas. George Méliès “A Trip to the Moon” introduced weird, easily explodable aliens called Selenites that capture the first ...