With Alien: Earth, Noah Hawley expands the universe of the cinematic franchise in new ways. Read our spoiler-free review of season one. The Alien franchise has been terrifying audiences since 1979.

For years, I firmly believed that there were no bad "Alien" movies (I am, of course, excluding the dreadful "Alien vs. Predator" films, which simply don't count). Ridley Scott's original "Alien" is a ...

For those uninitiated, the Alien film franchise (starting with 1979's Alien) centers on humans trying to survive an encounter with a fearsome alien species that is a certified killing machine, with ...