The Alien franchise looks like it may have found the filmmaker to guide its next chapter. After Fede Álvarez decided not to return to direct the follow-up to Alien: Romulus , a new report suggests the ...

Tibetan National Uprising Day, observed annually on March 10, honors the 1959 Lhasa Uprising against Chinese rule. The uprising, sparked by fears for the Dalai Lama’s safety, escalated into a ...

Without warning, the sleepy Cuban farm town of San Antonio de los Baños burst into protest one morning nearly five years ago, ...

For nearly five decades, Steven Spielberg has helped define what alien stories mean to movie audiences. Sometimes they arrive as cosmic miracles. Sometimes as existential threats. Sometimes as ...

Resident Alien ended its four-season run, relatively on its own terms, in August 2025. However, before Alan Tudyk's sci-fi dramedy came to a close, the finale snuck in an obvious attempt to manifest a ...

Sequelitis is a serious problem in the world of cinema. When a masterpiece is made, the executives are eager to capture that lightning in a bottle a second time. That leads to sequels that must be ...

Part of what makes some classics worthy of such a title is the ingenuity and borderline movie magic they employ to tell their story. In the case of "Alien," for example, director Ridley Scott used ...

Thousands of people from across 68 political parties have thrown their hats in the electoral ring for the March 5 elections. Former mayor of Kathmandu, Balendra Shah, of the Rastriya Swatantra Party, ...

There’s no denying the allure of alien artifacts. Science fiction is awash in the material remnants of extraterrestrial civilizations, which surface in everything from the classic books of Arthur C.

Ali Mamouri does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their ...

Ray Takeyh is Hasib J. Sabbagh senior fellow for Middle East studies at the Council on Foreign Relations. Iran is once more experiencing a popular uprising. Scenes of protesters chanting “death to the ...

Iran’s clerics face a familiar uprising driven by economic collapse, but repression, not reform, now defines the regime’s response. Ray Takeyh is a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations ...