When Alien hit theaters in 1979, it showed that audiences weren't only interested in the family-oriented sci-fi fun of Star Wars, which had arrived two years earlier. Ridley Scott's stunningly ...

“I didn’t steal Alien from anybody,” screenwriter Dan O’Bannon once said of his seminal sci-fi film. “I stole from everybody.” While it makes for a great soundbite, that quote resonated with ...

A documentary tracking the cultural and mythological foundation stones that led to Alien, the landmark 1979 film that changed science-fiction forever. Memory is hardly the first documentary to attempt ...

It's been 40 years since Alien burst through the chest of unsuspecting movie audiences in the summer of 1979, launching the careers of director Ridley Scott and breakout star Sigourney Weaver, and ...