When Ridley Scott first premiered “Alien” in 1979, a new era of practical effects and creature design was ushered into the cultural zeitgeist. Almost 50 years later, the world that Scott built ...

The story of Alien: Paradiso takes place on the planetary resort colony of Paradiso, which has strict rules about banning weaponry of any kind. A smuggler/arms dealer named Ricky Valentine comes there ...

The versatile actor Sir John Hurt, who could move audiences to tears in "The Elephant Man," terrify them in "Alien," and spoof that very same scene in "Spaceballs," has died. He was 77. Hurt, who ...

LOS ANGELES — No actor was more perfectly named than John Hurt. It's not as if the people he played were always in pain (though more often than not, they were). Yet he was graced with a seductively ...