In space, no one can hear you scream, but they can sure hear you scratching your head as you try to make sense of the sprawling “Alien” universe. While Ridley Scott’s 1979 haunted-house-in-the-cosmos ...

Alien — the creature and the franchise — is a shape-shifter. In the interplanetary dystopia of the Alien movies, the parasitic creature that parasitic CEOs are always trying to capture — and that blue ...