Ellen Ripley is the best action heroine of all time, without question. Just look at two of the most iconic images of Ripley. One finds her cradling Newt (Carrie Henn), the survivor of a xenomorph ...

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 ...

Warning! This article contains SPOILERS for Alien: Earth season 1, episode 5.Even though the human-synthetic hybrid Wendy seems like Alien: Earth's version of Ellen Ripley, it's actually a much more ...

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 ...

Ellen Ripley's emotional journey in Aliens is deepened by her connection to Newt and the tragedy of her lost daughter, Amanda. The deleted scene involving Ripley's promise to her daughter adds a layer ...

Episode 5, however, flips the script by showing us that Morrow isn’t the villain; he’s just as doomed and complicated as everyone else on the series. Not only that, it does this by turning him into ...

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 ...