These are the capsule reviews of the 10 films contending for Best Picture at the Academy Awards, which will take place March 15.

Mad Cave Studios launches Dog Tag #1 and Babylon Cove #1, debuting major new stories in May 2026. Popular ongoing series like Speed Racer, Flash Gordon, Gatchaman, and Dick Tracy continue with fresh ...

Over the past decade, Don’t Nod has explored the soul-sucking worlds of 17th-century America, post-WWI London, dystopian Paris, and a high school in the Pacific Northwest. But for its next trick, the ...

On paper, a game about the Colonial Marines from the Alien franchise seems like perfect fodder for an exciting action/horror game. Forcing players to confront the Xenomorphs in action could have been ...

For nearly five decades, Steven Spielberg has helped define what alien stories mean to movie audiences. Sometimes they arrive as cosmic miracles. Sometimes as existential threats. Sometimes as ...

Sequelitis is a serious problem in the world of cinema. When a masterpiece is made, the executives are eager to capture that lightning in a bottle a second time. That leads to sequels that must be ...

It's a big universe out there, and while we're all for exploring it, a specific subgenre of science fiction movies has hinted that it might be a bad idea. Alien invasion movies have come in droves ...

Ridley Scott's inimitable 1979 sci-fi thriller, Alien, expertly ratchets up the tension by not having the titular alien show up on screen until roughly an hour into the film. Following in Scott's ...

A new paper posits that advanced alien civilizations may communicate through subtle flashes, like fireflies do on Earth. The thought experiment suggests that we need to avoid human biases in our ...

In honor of FX’s Alien: Earth, here are 12 details of the Alien franchise a normal person wouldn’t know. Xenomorphs have been terrifying audiences for nearly half a century since the release of Ridley ...