The rich irony at the heart of the storied “Alien” franchise is that at the core of these encounters with the monstrous animal is a question of what, in fact, makes us truly human. The grand twist of ...

The most notable synthetic in Alien: Earth is Kirsh (Timothy Olyphant), a white-haired robot tasked with looking after Wendy (a new type of synthetic/human hybrid played by Sydney Chandler). Early on, ...