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

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When the universe as we know it collapses, the only creatures with a chance of surviving to see the next age would be akin to Ridley Scott’s xenomorphs. Like the “Alien” franchise itself, they’re ...