Movies about disasters—natural or human-made—have been produced since the earliest days of film. As early as 1916, a disaster with an extraterrestrial cause was touted in The End of the World, a ...

One of the underrated cult sci-fi movies of the 1990s had a moment that owes its existence to the first Alien movie, according to that film’s director. Ridley Scott released Alien in 1979, and it has ...