It becomes easier to get around a new place if you have an atlas handy. When it comes to navigating your way around marketing to an alien culture, your atlas can be any source of information created ...

Be it sci-fi, immigration or even artificial intelligence, the concept of "aliens" mirrors how we define fear, fascination and the "others" among us. What springs to mind at the mention of "alien"?

Right from the jump it's clear that FX's new series Alien: Earth is paying homage and gets its influence from the first two movies in the Alien franchise. The show's creator Noah Hawley (Legion, Fargo ...

As much as Steven Spielberg likes aliens, he seems to prefer holding them at arm’s length. The creatures in Close Encounters of the Third Kind contact humans using music and lights, but the director ...

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Kicking things off, we’ve chosen a baseline for these opening encounters. Steven Spielberg’s Close Encounters of the Third Kind represents how most people hope a real-life alien encounter will go down ...