One thing that makes Alien: Isolation such a uniquely tense experience is that it feels so personal thanks to its protagonist, Amanda Ripley, being the daughter of Ellen Ripley, the beloved hero of ...

With Women Of Action, Caroline Siede digs into the history of women-driven action movies to explore what these stories say about gender and how depictions of female action heroes have evolved over ...

In 1979, Sigourney Weaver, then a relative unknown, became a huge star thanks to her breakout performance as Ellen Ripley in Ridley Scott's Alien. In a world dominated by male heroes, Ripley was a ...

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Contains discussion of sexual assault. Alien 3 is the second sequel to Ridley Scott's genre-changing space horror, Alien, but, thanks to a succession of baffling missteps, the movie failed to live up ...

Editor's Note: The following contains spoilers for Alien: Romulus. The Alien franchise is synonymous with Ellen Ripley (Sigourney Weaver) and it's not hard to see why. In many ways, she was the ...

Horror movie sequels are usually considered to be bad, an issue that usually comes from a lack of creativity when writing a sequel to a successful first film. Very rarely will you find a horror movie ...