It gives me great sadness to report that actor Tom Skerritt, who played Captain Dallas in 1979's Alien, died on October 21, 2026, aged 93 of natural causes.

In the vast and often dangerous universe of science fiction cinema, certain creatures have become iconic symbols of dread.

Some films stick the landing in ways that feel confusing, abrupt, or even infuriating at first, but those “bad” endings ...