From The Thing to Blade Runner, Aliens to Tron, these ’80s sci-fi classics prove practical effects can still outshine modern ...

Brian Johnson, the special effects pioneer behind Space: 1999, Alien, Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back, and Aliens, has died.

These wildly different films explore the wondrous, and sometimes terrifying possibilities of contacting extra-terrestrial life.

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Left to Right: Steven Yeun in "Nope," the alien in Steven Spielberg's "E.T." and Scarlett Johansson in "Under the Skin" (Universal Pictures / A24) It didn’t take long for stories about ...