You need to be much more than just lucky or smart to survive an Alien film, and these characters use everything they have to prevail.

A lonely telephone sat on a tan tile floor in the otherwise empty reception area at Alien Technology Corp.'s temporary facility in southwest Fargo. "We'll eventually get a desk there," said Randy ...

Part of what makes some classics worthy of such a title is the ingenuity and borderline movie magic they employ to tell their story. In the case of "Alien," for example, director Ridley Scott used ...