This month’s recommendations include a dreamscape space opera, a dark time-travel diner comedy and an existential alien thriller.

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

From the Greys to the Nordics, these aliens appear frequently across abduction stories and science fiction tales.

This video dives into the science behind Rocky, the fan-favorite alien from Project Hail Mary. Instead of being a human-shaped creature with makeup, Rocky is built from hard sci-fi logic: five legs, ...

From a controversial Israeli film to Ryan Gosling in space - the cream of the cinematic crop at our year's halfway point ...

Reading time 5 minutes If you look up “third act problems” in a film studies book, there should be a big picture of Ethan ...

Los Angeles — Obsession is maybe too hard-edged; interest too soft. But from "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" and "E.T" to his new sci-fi thriller "Disclosure Day," Steven Spielberg has spent ...

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

Dystopian classics like Seconds, Threads, and Children of Men are among the bleakest science fiction movie masterpieces of ...

The best films of the year so far include “Project Hail Mary,” “Disclosure Day” and “Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie.” ...