Still thinking about Denis Villeneuve’s 2016 sci-fi film Arrival? Us too, and a new book dives deep. reading time 1 minute Explore more on these topics Share this story Subscribe and interact with our ...

Fede Álvarez’s Alien: Romulus is currently streaming on Hulu and recently received an Oscar nod in the Visual Effects category. Meanwhile, Earth has much more to worry about that’s coming from the ...

The most common depiction of aliens in the science fiction genre usually links them to enemies, threats, and invaders. The majority of sci-fi movies see aliens as antagonists and villains, who are ...

If scientists ever succeed in making contact with extraterrestrial beings, who gets to steer the conversation? Indeed, how do we even have a conversation? Despite what Gene Roddenberry told you, any ...

Anja Djuricic was born in Belgrade, Serbia, in 1992. Her first interest in film started very early, as she learned to speak English by watching Disney animated movies (and many, many reruns). Anja ...

Arrival. The title itself echoes as a strike against convention. This is not a film about aliens invading. It’s a film about aliens arriving. It’s a film that presents a realistic narrative about ...

Kicking things off, we’ve chosen a baseline for these opening encounters. Steven Spielberg’s Close Encounters of the Third Kind represents how most people hope a real-life alien encounter will go down ...

It starts with a signal. Faint, strange, and unlike anything humanity has ever recorded. Within hours, it escalates into an event that changes the course of history as an alien arrival on Earth ...

“Arrival,” released Friday, is based off the Ted Chiang short story and tells the story of linguist Dr. Louise Banks (Amy Adams) as she is chosen to attempt to communicate with two alien beings in ...

So many aliens have landed in films you’d think we’d be ready for their appearance. In “Arrival,” however, residents around the world are freaked. Huge, egg-shaped vehicles hang in the air, suggesting ...

Who among us does not believe there is life out there in the universe? Just recently, we learned that seven Earth-sized planets orbit a dwarf star named Trappist-1, only 40 light years away (New York ...