In 1996, "Independence Day" hit cinemas. It showed never-before-seen images, packaged as light popcorn entertainment.

Released in 1997, Air Force One is the purest expression of that fantasy in film. Harrison Ford stars as President James ...

Gitte Haenning shaped the German-language music scene for decades - first with pop hits, later with jazz and self-confident songs such as "Ich bin stark". Shortly before her 80th birthday, the Danish ...

Playwright Peter Shaffer (1926-2016) chased the same idea for 30 years. A mild-mannered, rule-bound protagonist meets a counterpart who is wild at heart. Our hero is at first repelled but soon becomes ...

The '80s were a notoriously uneven decade for cinema, but a few movies, like Die Hard and Amadeus, are still the cinematic ...

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

12 years is a long wait to play the sequel to one of your favourite games of all time. During that decade-plus stretch, I’ve re-played the original Alien: Isolation multiple times, analysed its ...

The moment of first contact with extraterrestrials is a staple of science fiction. It usually involves a frantic scientist having a Eureka moment, realising in a single dramatic instant that Earth is ...

Resident Alien Season 4 is finally streaming on Netflix US, but if you’re holding out hope for a Season 5, we have some bad news. The beloved sci-fi comedy will not be returning for a fifth outing.

It's one thing to watch "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" in a theater. Watching it with Steven Spielberg? That's a master class. Viewing a scene with Richard Dreyfuss, the conditions of filming ...

Following the government's release of declassified UAP files, the International Academy of Astronautics (IAA) updated its list of eight principles that were designed to guide our search for ...