Aliens probably exist – but there’s a terrifying reason why we’ve never met them
This summer, director Fede Alvarez returns the notorious Alien franchise to its monster-movie roots, and feeds yet another batch of hapless young space colonists to a nest of “xenomorphs”. It remains to be seen if Alien: Romulus will do more than pay loving tribute to Ridley Scott’s original 1979 Alien, but it hardly matters – Alien is a franchise...