Say the words “science fiction,” and most people immediately think of outer space. It’s ironic, then, that so few sci-fi movies actually set in outer space have ever been made. When they are made, far ...

The scariest thing about space isn’t the silence. It’s what’s hiding in it… I just rewatched “Alien: Romulus” because it’s spooky season, and I’d forgotten how good this movie is. It reminded me why I ...

2001: A Space Odyssey is a ground-breaking sci-fi movie, but other entries in the genre have also reshaped these kinds of stories. Director Stanley Kubrick delivered one of the most influential movies ...

William Smith is a freelance writer currently living in the Midwest with his wife and daughter, where he spends too much time watching movies and then writing about them. He doesn't read your hurtful ...

Given its subject matter, it's appropriate that "Species" turns out to be such a jarring hybrid of ideas and tones. Thirty years after it originally mutated into multiplexes, this high-concept tale of ...