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

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

William likes taking edibles, watching movies with his dogs, and then writing about those movies, because what else is there to do while the world burns? Space. The final frontier. It’s a setting that ...

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

“May the Fourth” has always seemed like a particularly fake corporate holiday because “Star Wars Day” is like the conspicuously missing Children’s Day: Isn’t that every day? Do we really need a day ...

And here I was thinking the summer had only one movie set in the Star Wars universe. Turns out there are two. The first was, ...

Otherworldly aliens are as important to the "Star Wars" saga as a rousing score or elaborate outer space fights between cool spaceships. From the very first entry in this narrative, "Star Wars" has ...