The theme of creation through sacrifice runs core throughout the movie. There are many sequences that suggest that the Engineers view the creation of life through sacrifice and death as the natural ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American Pinning down exactly what Ridley Scott's ...

Photo: Courtesy Twentieth Century Fox. Pinning down exactly what Ridley Scott’s larger-than-life Prometheus means may be impossible. But it’s safe to say that the movie – the 3-D quasi-prequel to ...

Adam Chitwood is a former Managing Editor at Collider, where he covered film and television with a focus on interviews, features, and industry analysis. Yet another interesting tidbit from that sci-fi ...

One of the most baffling moments in Prometheus occurs when the last surviving Engineer is awakened from stasis by David (Michael Fassbender) and Peter Weyland (Guy Pearce). The entire mission of the ...