Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A female-led action blockbuster seemed inevitable, it would just be a matter of who got there first. And, perhaps unsurprisingly, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Sigourney Weaver as Ripley in Alien (1979) Ellen Ripley is the best action heroine of all time, without question. Just look at two ...

Ellen Ripley’s Power Loader is still one of the most recognizable pieces of technology in the Alien franchise, thanks largely to its unforgettable confrontation with the Xenomorph Queen in Aliens. Now ...

Previous to discovering the Alien Queen embryo embedded within her, a Xenomorph - the Runner (known as "the Dragon" to the inmates) - attacked and killed Ripley’s brief romantic partner, Jonathan ...

Ellen Ripley was born on January 7th, 2092, at the Olympia colony on Luna. She was recruited to the Weyland-Yutani Horizon Beyond officer training program in 2115. She went on to complete her officer ...

There are many reasons Aliens is an important film. It confirmed James Cameron's status as a blockbuster talent after he had directed The Terminator and cowrote Rambo: First Blood Part II. ("The ...