When it came to Superman's origin story, James Gunn mostly played it safe in his 2025 movie. While the plot zooms past Kal-El's birth on Krypton, his arrival on Earth, and his who ...

As much as Steven Spielberg likes aliens, he seems to prefer holding them at arm’s length. The creatures in Close Encounters ...

If you've watched "Salt and Sea, Fire and Blood," you know which scene took the spotlight for all the wrong reasons. During an interview with TV Line, Olivia Cooke was asked whether her character ...

The Alien franchise has become synonymous with the deadly Xenomorph, with the predatory alien race becoming utterly iconic in ...

Former Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy & co-writer George Lucas explain why "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the ...

When fans talk about Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull , two moments almost always come up. The first is Indy surviving a nuclear blast by jumping inside a refrigerator, a scene that ...

In 1977, Steven Spielberg’s Close Encounters of the Third Kind imagined contact with aliens as an event inspiring awe. Five years later, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial envisioned another arrival as a ...

The Spielberg film that left me most confused and disappointed. Originally conceived by fellow legendary filmmaker Stanley Kubrick, this project soon turned into a dream collabora ...

The quality and scope of his films make any attempt to rank them a fool’s errand: nevertheless, that’s exactly what I’ve tried to do below ...

With 'Disclosure Day,' the director returns to a longtime preoccupation. Two Times staffers explore his ongoing fascination with extraterrestrials.

The topic of extraterrestrial life is not alien to Steven Spielberg. His latest film, Disclosure Day, also focuses on aliens - specifically on a whistleblower who races against the clock to unveil a ...

But when that new movie – his first in four years – also contains the DNA of some the most revered films of his wildly varied career, including Close Encounters of the Third Kind, E. T: the ...