'With the sound, we’re trying to paint a picture of what is Rocky's sonic soul.' ...

That Alien, Sound will find its champions (and it should), but for all its imagination, the film needs restraint, not an expanded run-time to capture its deepest potential.

That now classic tagline (from Alien, one of the greatest science-fiction horror movies ever made) hinges on a big assumption that most of us broadly make: space is empty. And it is—mostly. But there ...

"In space," some marketing genius once said, "no one can hear you scream". Bring the Xenomorph and its associated ecosystem back home, however — as "Alien: Earth" so memorably has — and you hear ...