Movies like "Disclosure Day" and "Project Hail Mary" renew our fascination with extraterrestrials and the idea that humankind ...

For nearly five decades, Steven Spielberg has helped define what alien stories mean to movie audiences. Sometimes they arrive as cosmic miracles. Sometimes as existential threats. Sometimes as ...

It's a big universe out there, and while we're all for exploring it, a specific subgenre of science fiction movies has hinted that it might be a bad idea. Alien invasion movies have come in droves ...

Movies about disasters—natural or human-made—have been produced since the earliest days of film. As early as 1916, a disaster with an extraterrestrial cause was touted in The End of the World, a ...

The best Easter egg in Project Hail Mary comes when Ryan Gosling's Ryland Grace meets an alien and tries to use a Steven Spielberg movie moment to communicate.