Graham Baker's 1988 sci-fi film "Alien Nation" is possessed of a novel, and pointedly political, premise. The film takes place in the near future of 1991, only about three years after an alien ...

While Sandra Bullock’s blindfolding has become the source of countless memes, the logic behind it is solid: If you don’t look at the film’s antagonists, you’ll remain safe—or at least as safe as one ...

For nearly five decades, Steven Spielberg has helped define what alien stories mean to movie audiences. Sometimes they arrive as cosmic miracles. Sometimes as existential threats. Sometimes as ...