The moment is the film’s final battle—human vs. alien. The titular villain, the queen alien, is pursuing Rebecca “Newt” Jordan (Carrie Henn), an orphan girl whom Ellen Ripley (Sigourney Weaver) has ...

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 ...

One of the greatest movie characters of all time is Sigourney Weaver's Ripley. She's the survivor of many an alien attack across several decades in one of the most beloved science fiction franchises ...