As much as Steven Spielberg likes aliens, he seems to prefer holding them at arm’s length. The creatures in Close Encounters ...

These wildly different films explore the wondrous, and sometimes terrifying possibilities of contacting extra-terrestrial ...

Spielberg has graced the silver screen with countless creative alien species in his career, and some have shown to be more ...

For roughly the first three decades of his career, Spielberg tended to take a fairly sanguine view of aliens, refusing to ...

Xenomorphs, space nomads and E.T. have solidified themselves into the canon of alien movies prominent in popular culture. With the latest film in the Alien franchise: Alien: Romulus out in theaters ...

With 'Disclosure Day,' the director returns to a longtime preoccupation. Two Times staffers explore his ongoing fascination ...

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Alien: Earth showrunner Noah Hawley clearly didn’t think the franchise was doing enough with the implications of its title. Ridley Scott’s Alien (1979) imagined the kind of nightmare lifeforms that ...

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