Cameron, 71, opened up about the movie on the Just Foolin About with Michael Biehn podcast, in an episode shared Dec. 23. Cameron wrote and directed 1986’s Aliens, the sequel to the classic and ...

After all those hit-and-miss “Alien” sequels, it’s comforting to see “Alien: Romulus,” a sturdy entry in the canon that reminds us of a day when summer films were reliable tent poles.

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 ...