Yesterday, FX and Hulu unleashed the long-awaited series, Alien: Earth, with a two-episode streaming premiere. Fans tuned in with nerves tingling. Some probably even looked like poor Kane just before ...

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 ...