These wildly different films explore the wondrous, and sometimes terrifying possibilities of contacting extra-terrestrial ...

The moment of first contact with extraterrestrials is a staple of science fiction. It usually involves a frantic scientist ...

Many view The Expanse as one of the best hard sci-fi novel series, but there are other literary works better than James S.A.

With 'Disclosure Day,' the director returns to a longtime preoccupation. Two Times staffers explore his ongoing fascination ...

Steven Spielberg has spent nearly 50 years asking whether humanity is alone. With Disclosure Day, he sounds less interested ...

Erik Hawkins is an award-winning writer and editor who's been obsessed with cinema since he was old enough to hold Roger Ebert's Video Home Companion in his hands. He lives in NYC, where he rabidly ...

While the movies of Sony’s Spider-Man Universe might have left much to be desired, they did feature an alien threat more powerful than the Xenomorph. Marvel’s Symbiotes are heavily featured, with the ...

Early cinema depicted aliens as human-like for familiarity and practical reasons, but modern science fiction explores ...

Originally conceived in the 1980s as a high-concept sci-fi film of ideas crossed with a police procedural, 1995's Specieseventually took shape as a cheesy and sleazy erotic thriller crossed with a ...