Michael Fassbender in a scene from the motion picture "Prometheus." Photo by 20th Century Fox [Via MerlinFTP Drop] This movie is awful. Within 30 seconds it undoes essentially everything they worked ...

Although the plot of Prometheus might seem confusing, it is relatively easy to understand where Ridley Scott’s 2012 prequel takes place in the Alien franchise timeline. The Alien movies have ...

The moon was used as a bio-weapons base by an alien species called the Engineers. The Engineers created and destroyed life using a substance called Black Goo, which has the power to mutate the DNA of ...

In 2012, Ridley Scott returned to the franchise that he created in 1979 when he directed Prometheus, a prequel to Alien. With this movie, he made some major changes, retconning what some of the ...

Alien: Covenant looks pretty good on paper: a sequel to the also pretty good Prometheus, starring Michael Fassbender, Katherine Waterston, and Billy Crudup, with tons of throwback references to Alien ...

The opening moments of Prometheus present a visually breathtaking but puzzling prologue. Viewers witness a lone Engineer on what appears to be a primordial Earth, positioned beside a thundering ...

Sam Barsanti has written about pop-culture for 10 years, and his work has appeared at The A.V. Club, Primetimer, IGN, and Collider. He has also contributed to the popular daily Hustle newsletter, ...

LOS ANGELES, Calif. – Since hatching “Alien” 33 years ago, Ridley Scott has hoped no other filmmakers would try to answer this question: Where did the space eggs containing those terrifying beasts ...

If there’s one thing Alien fans have given up on, it’s trying to sort out the complex and often contradictory nature of the xenomorph chronology. Even as early as 1986, when Aliens jumped forward in ...

If you’re old enough to remember the original 1979 Alien film, you’ll recall the heart-pounding fear, the ghastly aliens and the cold, dark open of space. If you’ve seen Prometheus, the 2012 offshoot ...

Black Goo is a thick, sticky, tar-like substance with a mysterious and dubious background. It was originally introduced in Prometheus alongside the Engineers, an ancient race of aliens that were ...