The membrane separating movies from TV has never been thinner, as one of Hollywood's biggest franchises suddenly has more prosects on the small screen than the cinema. FX has renewed Alien: Earth for ...

For every step we take into the future, our feet phantom-walk us to steps into the past. We’re all doing Y2K fashion, we’re all done with clean girl makeup, we’re all going analogue, we’re all meeting ...

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When you hear the term “monster movies,” you might think you know what to expect. A giant, irradiated bug stomping all over a modern metropolis, perhaps, or an inhuman beast stalking a group of ...

Discover What’s Streaming On: Alien: Earth Episode 8 “The Real Monsters” wraps the FX show’s first season with one heck of a regime change. We’ve watched for weeks as Boy Kavalier (Samuel Blenkin) and ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

Many Dungeons & Dragons groups default to playing long campaigns composed of interlocking adventures and running storylines. This structure can be a great way to play D&D, but it's far from the only ...

Much like its close genre cousin (nephew/niece?) the superhero film, the potential of sci-fi movies exploded in the latter part of the 20th century thanks to technological advances that transformed ...

Considering how popular he was in his heyday, it's astonishing how far Charlie Drake has fallen out of the cultural conversation. This was a comic who sold out seasons at the London Palladium, spent ...

One of the most unnerving things about Geometric Interactive's lush insect puzzler Cocoon is how intuitive it feels. For my money, anyway. The premise is perfectly brain-bending: each world contains ...