The name Jerry has left a bright trail across film, television, and music. From boundary-pushing comedians to chart-topping musicians and blockbuster producers, these Jerrys helped shape genres, ...
The “Wow!” signal is one of our best pieces of evidence for aliens, but researchers are building a compelling case for a more ...
The opening moments of a film are crucial for establishing tone and capturing the audience’s attention before the story truly begins. Graphic designers and filmmakers often collaborate to turn these ...
During its return to the earth, commercial spaceship Nostromo intercepts a distress signal from a distant planet. When a three-member team of the crew discovers a chamber containing thousands of eggs ...
Steven Spielberg’s fourth film about alien encounters is “Disclosure Day,” following “ET: The Extra-Terrestrial,” “War of the Worlds,” and “Close Encounters of the Third Kind.” That inspired us to ...
Yet even now, 44 years after the film’s release, the matter of which auteur deserves attribution for Poltergeist feels anything but settled, even though Hooper has always been listed as the film’s ...
The xenomorph from the Alien franchise is one of the most legendary creatures in cinema history. Now it’s the star of FX’s series Alien: Earth too. Many filmmakers have put xenomorphs on screen and ...
We spoke with composer Benjamin Wallfisch about his work on the Predator and Alien franchises, secrets of the Predator: Badlands score, how creating music for these two iconic monsters differs and ...
In cinema, if something works once, studios will naturally assume it could work again. Die Hard, aside from spawning four sequels, also inspired innumerable rip-offs. The same goes for Mad Max, Conan ...