Ellen Ripley is the best action heroine of all time, without question. Just look at two of the most iconic images of Ripley. One finds her cradling Newt (Carrie Henn), the survivor of a xenomorph ...

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 ...

Despite the Alien franchise having three upcoming movies and TV shows, none of them really have the means to bring back Sigourney Weaver's iconic Ellen Ripley. Ellen Ripley is one of the best ...

Contains discussion of sexual assault. Alien 3 is the second sequel to Ridley Scott's genre-changing space horror, Alien, but, thanks to a succession of baffling missteps, the movie failed to live up ...

Sigourney Weaver is an acting legend who's been making movies for half a decade; but no matter what she does, she will always be most remembered for her role as Ellen Ripley in the first four Alien ...

Episode 5, however, flips the script by showing us that Morrow isn’t the villain; he’s just as doomed and complicated as everyone else on the series. Not only that, it does this by turning him into ...

Horror movie sequels are usually considered to be bad, an issue that usually comes from a lack of creativity when writing a sequel to a successful first film. Very rarely will you find a horror movie ...