Movies about disasters—natural or human-made—have been produced since the earliest days of film. As early as 1916, a disaster with an extraterrestrial cause was touted in The End of the World, a Danish film about a passing comet causing chaos and ...

When the universe as we know it collapses, the only creatures with a chance of surviving to see the next age would be akin to Ridley Scott’s xenomorphs. Like the “Alien” franchise itself, they’re durable, adaptable to any environment and ...

The low-budget British aliens-invade-the-hood thriller "Attack the Block" reminded me of Rick's famous line in "Casablanca," his reply when Major Strasser asks about how he'll feel with the Nazis in New York. "Well, there are certain sections of New York ...

Director John Favreau goes nuts with Cowboys and Aliens, taking two genres (Westerns and alien-invasion films) and mashing them together. Somehow, he gets the crazy thing to work. It doesn’t hurt that Favreau populated the cast with one major talent ...

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 time. A female-led action blockbuster seemed inevitable, it ...