This story contains spoilers for "Alien: Romulus" and "Alien." Fans of the "Alien" franchise had a few concerns about the appearance of a beloved actor brought back to life by artificial intelligence.

The “Alien” movies vary widely in quality — there arguably hasn’t been a truly satisfying one since the first two in 1979 and 1986 — but a key thread has endured across the 46 years: However scary the ...

In the 2016 science fiction movie Arrival, a linguist is faced with the daunting task of deciphering an alien language consisting of palindromic phrases, which read the same backwards as they do ...