Michael Fassbender is returning to sci-fi and aliens for his next film. After playing androids David 8 and Walter One in Ridley Scott's Alien prequels Prometheus (2012) and Alien: Covenant (2017), ...
Great science fiction has always been about something more than spaceships and dystopian futures. At its best, sci-fi is a lens, a way of looking at the world we actually live in through the safety of ...
The ‘Alien’ and ‘Predator’ franchises have gripped me with their mix of terror, action, and cosmic mystery for decades. From xenomorphs stalking spaceship corridors to Yautja hunting across worlds, ...
Do you remember when they said that in space, no one could hear you scream? The tagline for the cult classic Alien movie has, in a way, become a tagline for the whole subgenre of science-fiction, at ...
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Steven Spielberg’s Aliens

Disclosure Day has plenty of UFOs and extraterrestrial species but very little of the human insights found in the filmmaker’s ...
As much as Steven Spielberg likes aliens, he seems to prefer holding them at arm’s length. The creatures in Close Encounters of the Third Kind contact humans using music and lights, but the director ...
“Disclosure Day” is upon us. Steven Spielberg’s latest, which follows a whistleblower (Josh O’Connor) and a TV weatherwoman (Emily Blunt) on a desperate quest to expose the truth about ...