Ellen Ripley is the best action heroine of all time, without question. Just look at two of the most iconic images of Ripley. One finds her cradling Newt (Carrie Henn), the survivor of a xenomorph ...

With Women Of Action, Caroline Siede digs into the history of women-driven action movies to explore what these stories say about gender and how depictions of female action heroes have evolved over ...

After nine films, including sequels, prequels and spinoffs, and now Hulu’s Alien: Earth, the Alien franchise continues to ...

Warning: Spoilers for Alien: Romulus may lie ahead. With Alien: Romulus set to receive a sequel after convincing most critics and fans, co-writer and director Fede Álvarez has been spending a lot of ...

When Sigourney Weaver first brought Ellen Ripley to life in 1979’s Alien, she redefined what a hero in science fiction could be: resourceful, resilient, and human, even in the face of monsters beyond ...

Sigourney Weaver was a guest at the New York Comic-Con 2025, and she made an interesting statement about possibly returning to the Alien franchise that sounds perfect. In her panel discussion on the ...

Ellen Ripley was born on January 7th, 2092, at the Olympia colony on Luna. She was recruited to the Weyland-Yutani Horizon Beyond officer training program in 2115. She went on to complete her officer ...

Episode 5, however, flips the script by showing us that Morrow isn’t the villain; he’s just as doomed and complicated as everyone else on the series. Not only that, it does this by turning him into ...

Brad LaCour is a Senior List Writer for Collider. Based out of Los Angeles, California, Brad lives close enough to the stars but is too busy to find out where exactly they live. Brad is fairly certain ...

With everything going on in the Alien universe, one character we all assumed to be safely retired was Ellen Ripley. Sigourney Weaver’s iconic character and star of the franchise’s first four movies ...