Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Sigourney Weaver as Ripley in Alien (1979) Ellen Ripley is the best action heroine of all time, without question. Just look at two ...

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 ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Weaver spoke with Variety about a potential return to Ripley while promoting Avatar: Fire and Ash.

Two of the most iconic leading ladies in sci-fi, Ellen Ripley and Sarah Connor, are not your usual heroes—they’re reluctant ...

Some exceptionally unsettling elements were thrown together to create the Xenomorph when it first appeared in Ridley Scott's 1979 horror sci-fi, "Alien." Spliced from ...

Warning: Spoilers for Alien: Romulus may lie ahead. With Alien: Romulus set to receive a sequel after convincing most critics and fans, co-writer and director Fede Álvarez has been spending a lot of ...

One of the standout performers from arguably the most iconic sci-fi movie of all-time may not be done with the franchise yet. While speaking to Deadline, Sigourney Weaver spoke about a potential ...

But for all the movies in the franchise, to date, the very first time characters and audiences witness the birth of a Xenomorph out of a human host is the most horrifying scene. Often referred to as ...

The premiere episode of Alien: Earth, which is set two years before the events of the original 1979 Alien film, has an opening scene that feels and looks like it was taken straight out of the original ...

Not only was our last survivor of the Nostromo, Ellen Ripley (Sigourney Weaver), set to die at the creature's hands, but we'd actually get to hear the Xenomorph speak after the deed was done. In an ...