“Bugonia” refers to the ancient Greek belief that bees could spawn spontaneously from dead cow carcasses, and that cow dung was beneficial to the hive. It’s a myth, of course, but that didn’t stop ...

Few directors are capable of dissecting human behavior with the surgical absurdity of Yorgos Lanthimos. His newest tour de force, “Bugonia,” is no exception to this treatment. Placed in the context of ...

‘Predator: Badlands’ contains several references to the ‘Alien’ franchise, but how deep does the connection go, and what does it mean for future sewu Alien and Predator aren’t nearly as intertwined as ...

Scientists in Australia have identified a new species of native bee with tiny, devil-like horns that have earned it a playfully hellish name – “lucifer.” The species, Megachile lucifer, was discovered ...

“Bugonia” opens not with action, but with a conversation: two men, Don and Teddy, talking about bees. Teddy explains colony collapse disorder: a phenomenon where bees abandon their queen, leaving the ...

Take me to your leader: Emma Stone, Aidan Delbis and Jesse Plemons “I follow a very expensive anti-ageing programme,” she tells Teddy, who works as a packer in the Auxolith warehouse, and Don. This is ...

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Mirroring the pitter-pattering of rain on the city streets, thousands of feet shuffled into theaters across seven venues for the start of the 61st Chicago International Film Festival (CIFF). The ...

Is it the invasion of the genome snatchers? Just in case the idea of aliens walking around in human skin suits wasn’t frightening enough. An outlandish study asserts that aliens might have abducted us ...

I didn’t expect to be interrupted in the middle of my coffee break by Emma Stone with a shaved head, but here we are! And of course, Yorgos Lanthimos (The Favourite, Poor Things) is responsible. The ...

The Alien franchise has always focused on just one titular alien — the Xenomorph. Yes, over the years, we got extrapolations of the Xenomorph, like the Queen, and the facehuggers. Yet they all still ...

“Alien” mantis species Liturgusa maya may have arrived in the Galápagos as a stowaway in agricultural material, according to a study. Getty Images/iStockphoto The newly confirmed presence of an “alien ...