Here is further evidence that the tail is wagging the dog in the film biz: The “Alien” franchise, which lasted about eight hours in theaters, is now more than 53 hours long. The reason is DVD. Fox’s ...

Believe it or not, Ripley’s back in a nine-DVD set called “Alien: Quadrilogy.” Could there be a more joyous way to celebrate the holidays than watching a slime thing pop out of John Hurt’s innards? If ...

The most wonderful and horrible thing about film franchises is that where they begin and where they end up usually have little to do with one another. Take the Alien series, now collected in an ...