Ellen Ripley is the best action heroine of all time, without question. Just look at two of the most iconic images of Ripley. One finds her cradling Newt (Carrie Henn), the survivor of a xenomorph ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." The original, 1979 installment of Alien follows Warrant Officer Ellen Ripley’s (Sigourney Weaver) a space ...

In 1979, Sigourney Weaver, then a relative unknown, became a huge star thanks to her breakout performance as Ellen Ripley in Ridley Scott's Alien. In a world dominated by male heroes, Ripley was a ...

Players do get little glimpses of the Xenomorph before this point — they'll witness it kill an NPC with its tail, hear it ...

Both look upon the alien’s assault as an opportunity and choose to protect the perpetrator of the violence instead of the ...

With Women Of Action, Caroline Siede digs into the history of women-driven action movies to explore what these stories say about gender and how depictions of female action heroes have evolved over ...

Sigourney Weaver has met with Disney about potentially reprising her Ellen Ripley role in a future Alien sequel. Weaver first played Ripley in 1979’s Alien, which was directed by Ridley Scott. She ...