It's no secret, but if you've never seen the end of Alien³, look away now because here comes the spoiler - Ripley dies at the end of it. You can almost see her muttering "Thank God" under her breath ...

Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Alien Resurrection, which premiered on 6 November 1997, was less celebrated elsewhere (“The American people hate it!” laughs Jeunet) ...

With Alien: Romulus hitting our screens soon, it is as good a time as any to cast a discerning eye over the history of this at times breath-taking and always fascinating franchise and remind ourselves ...

District 9 film-maker reveals plans to ignore unpopular sequels Alien 3 and Alien: Resurrection in order to take the franchise back to ‘a Freudian kind of nightmare’ Neill Blomkamp plans to ignore ...