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

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

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

From "Independence Day" to "Invasion of the Body Snatchers", movies and TV shows are packed with advice for anyone aspiring ...

Beyond the Black Rainbow, Psycho Goreman, and The Endless are all among the best sci-fi horror movies of the last 20 years ...

Left to Right: Steven Yeun in "Nope," the alien in Steven Spielberg's "E.T." and Scarlett Johansson in "Under the Skin" (Universal Pictures / A24) It didn’t take long for stories about ...

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 ...

Alien invasion stories have been around for decades, and some of sci-fi's most interesting entries are often overlooked or ...

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 ...