There's one character in theAlienfilms whose name is near-synonymous with the franchise—Ellen Ripley. Since the late-70s, Sigourney Weaver's formidable Xenomorph-brawling heroine has cemented herself ...

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When 1979 audiences met Ash in Alien, a synthetic crew member on a spaceship felt like an idea centuries away. While androids as portrayed in the Alien movies still aren’t a reality, there have been ...