Reading time 5 minutes If you look up “third act problems” in a film studies book, there should be a big picture of Ethan ...

One good thing the President Donald Trump administration has done for the world is using the sheer weight of his personality to push down the walls of secrecy masking every knowledge about the ...

From the Greys to the Nordics, these aliens appear frequently across abduction stories and science fiction tales.

Disclosure Day has plenty of UFOs and extraterrestrial species but very little of the human insights found in the filmmaker’s ...

There’s no data to suggest that aliens exist. However, if we believed they existed and came to Earth, our planet would offer ...

First, there was the release of the so-called UFO files by the Trump administration in May, which sparked a wide range of reactions from religious Americans. Then there was a new blockbuster summer ...

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

You will, no doubt, be familiar with the 1995 footage of a supposed alien autopsy,” said Sarah Dempster in The Guardian, in which, over the course of 18 minutes, figures in hazmat suits dissect the ...

With the release of Disclosure Day, Steven Spielberg’s new film about aliens, a question as old as science fiction itself resurfaces: if aliens were to arrive on Earth, would they come to conquer us, ...

This article is part of Spielberg Week, Slate’s seven-day celebration of Steven Spielberg. At my press screening of Steven Spielberg’s Disclosure Day, the logo of Spielberg’s production company Amblin ...

Half a century after "Close Encounters of the Third Kind," the director returns to the subject of UFOs with "Disclosure Day." His science fiction films are informed by his fascination with alien encou ...