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 ...

Amanda Ripley isn’t established until Aliens, but the star character of the beloved video game Alien: Isolation was 10 years old when Ripley left Earth on the Nostromo, and after searching for her ...

Ellen Ripley is the warrant officer assigned to the USCSS Nostromo who encounters a hostile alien, the Xenomorph, when its embryo is brought back onto the ship. She's the protagonist of four Alien ...

Sigourney Weaver says that her action hero Ripley "deserves a rest". Starring in four of the six 'Alien' movies in the franchise, Sigourney Weaver as Ripley has cemented the actress as one of the ...

Sigourney Weaver is ready to reprise her role as Ellen Ripley once again. "We're just taking it one step at a time, it is very interesting," she said. "I hope we do it because I think it will be ...

As Alien: Covenant arrives in cinemas, there are tidings good and bad for fans of the spacefaring franchise. On the one hand, eager acolytes have been getting a closer look at Ridley Scott's prequel, ...

This article contains very mild spoilers for the first episode of Alien: Earth. There originally were never going to be any robots in the world or mythology of Alien. As brilliant as Dan O’Bannon and ...