Steven Spielberg and aliens: Tracing a decades-long obsession

For roughly the first three decades of his career, Spielberg tended to take a fairly sanguine view of aliens, refusing to ...

Creative Assembly says Alien: Isolation 2 will draw inspiration from the first Alien movie again

Creative Assembly has confirmed that Alien: Isolation 2 will take place months after the first game and is once again ...
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Roger Ebert’s Best and Worst Alien Movies

Steven Spielberg’s fourth film about alien encounters is “Disclosure Day,” following “ET: The Extra-Terrestrial,” “War of the Worlds,” and “Close Encounters of the Third Kind.” That inspired us to ...

What is it with Spielberg and space aliens? We break down his career-long fixation

With 'Disclosure Day,' the director returns to a longtime preoccupation. Two Times staffers explore his ongoing fascination ...