Spielberg’s sci-fi blockbuster starring Emily Blunt and Josh O’Connor may be spectacular, but it misjudges how much abuse of groups we see as ‘other’ humans are prepared to tolerate ...

Maybe we did not create life in the biological sense, but maybe we created something stranger: an alien form of ...

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

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The film that set the standard for such otherworldly optimism, Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977), shares much with ...

There is something almost offensive about a sky so full of stars and so empty of company. That is what gives Richard ...

Cinema's great optimist returns to sci-fi with a plea for compassion. Will we listen?

The latest Nintendo console benefits from an incredible library of games carried over from the original Switch, but it has ...

In Doctor Who's 2005 revival season 2, episodes 'The Impossible Planet' and 'The Satan Pit' tested the Doctor's beliefs in ...

Cancelled after four seasons, Resident Alien is finding new fans on Netflix and proving why it’s one of sci-fi’s hidden gems.

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