When asked how much of the alien language used by the franchise’s central hunter species he is able to speak, “Predator: Badlands” director Dan Trachtenberg quickly answers, “Zero.” “My mouth will not ...

In the 2016 science fiction movie Arrival, a linguist is faced with the daunting task of deciphering an alien language consisting of palindromic phrases, which read the same backwards as they do ...

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Symbols that can’t be understood have always captivated human imagination, especially when they tell a story. Some games lean into this captivation by asking players to decipher alien imagination, ...

In the 2016 movie Arrival, water-dwelling extraterrestrials make an appearance on Earth. The main human character’s job is to learn how to communicate with the seven-tentacled extraterrestrials before ...

DC’s “Supergirl” made a heroic stop at CinemaCon in Las Vegas, where the annual convention for movie theater owners is currently taking place. “House of the Dragon” actor Milly Alcock stars in ...

The DC Universe's first foray into deep space won't be in HBO's Lanterns (streaming in August); it will be in Supergirl, and it seems that being a forerunner comes with an unexpected linguistic ...