Readers share their favorite surreal, intense, and utterly unique reads that you have to experience to understand.

There’s dozens, maybe hundreds of movies where “America!” is the predominant theme—some reverent, some scathing, all of it ...

One dusty New Mexico summer rewired how America looks at the sky.

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Disclosure Day had people talking for its fresh take on alien contact and powerful sci-fi themes. These films follow the same ...

Aliens are a curious thing, no? There are the spindly, acidic variants of Ridley Scott’s Alien universe, stark contrasts to the silly “banana” obsessed variety of Dandadan. They’re envisioned as ...

Polygon Summer Game Fest 2026 Live game reveals, world premiere trailers, and what’s next from 40+ developers, publishers, and hardware makers. Aliens: Fireteam Elite 2 is a co-op shooter where you ...

The topic of extraterrestrial life is not alien to Steven Spielberg. The celebrated filmmaker has famously explored it throughout his career, whether it be in Close Encounters Of The Third Kind, E.T., ...

A onetime model based in Paris, he also appeared in ‘The Rock,’ ‘Armageddon,’ ‘The Postman’ and ‘The Annihilation of Fish.’ ...

Alien invasion movies don’t always send us into orbit, but there are more than a few we consider to be out of this world. And the thing about UFO films is, even when they are bad, they can be a total ...

Sega and Creative Assembly have finally officially revealed Alien: Isolation 2 with a new trailer at Summer Game Fest 2026. While the trailer stops short of announcing a release date or even a release ...

Humans have always been obsessed with extraterrestrial life and what is out there beyond the stars. Well, our obsession with a world out there has always been reflected in our art, including cinema.