Jussie Smollett

The 'Empire' star's attack investigation just took another major turn.

Space is terrifying; at this point, that much is beyond debate. All people do there is die! (And make game-changing scientific discoveries, sure, but at what cost?) Space tried to murder Sandra Bullock in Gravity, it came back for Matthew McConaughey in Interstellar, and that’s not even counting all the space-set films that are supposed to be horrifying. None moreso than Ridley Scott’s 1979 masterpiece Alien, back in the news these days due to its upcoming sequel Alien: Covenant, the trailer for which made for a primo excuse to leave the dinner table and its various political arguments this Christmas night.

Andre and Cookie make a power play, Hakeem rides his Hovertrax, and we meet Chris Rock and Marisa Tomei's characters...and Lee Daniels is already thinking about a spinoff.