Joe Satriani helped make instrumental rock feel as exciting and accessible as any hit with a singer behind the microphone.

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When James Cameron’s Aliens was released 40 years ago, film critics dismissed it as a dumb blockbuster, a defense of patriarchy, and a reflection of US scorched-earth military policy. They were wrong ...

Walter Hill will receive Fantastic Fest's lifetime achievement award, followed by a nationwide retrospective screening of his ...

On July 3, 1996, Roland Emmerich’s disaster epic Independence Day paid off months of hype to become an instant box-office smash. It was not just the highest-grossing film of the year, but one of the ...

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Vanity Fair reports from the Capitol Hill conference, where members of a sprawling community of national security experts and alien conspiracists gathered.

They sure don't make them like they used to, but in the case of 1980s science fiction horror, perhaps it's better that they didn't. That's not because they were bad, of course. On the contrary, in ...

Some of the references are easy to spot. There’s an explicit nod to the Roswell incident, for example, one of the most famous UFO conspiracies in history; what’s more, the “little gray men” design of ...