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What are little (robot) girls made of? After half a century of increasingly questionable sequels, prequels and crossovers, there aren’t many...

After the... ahem, headscratchable choices in the Alien  prequels, a course correction was supposed to do more than rehash the exact same or...

In space, no one can hear you groan.  Alien is one of my all-time favorite films, something I watch a couple times a year. It never ge...

I don't mind Halloween, in and of itself. There are costumes, booze, it's fall. All great things. But then every show and movie list...

Why does something matter? What context surrounds it that makes it something to look more closely at? Here at Nerds, I recently pitch...

(Almost) Perfect organism. I’m a huge fan of the Alien franchise. Alien is an amazing movie. The rest of them are mostly good for...

The Meat I don't know quite what to make of this book, or of my reaction to it. In most ways it's an excellent sequel—it d...