Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.” – Arthur C.

Left to Right: Steven Yeun in "Nope," the alien in Steven Spielberg's "E.T." and Scarlett Johansson in "Under the Skin" (Universal Pictures / A24) It didn’t take long for stories about ...

Plenty of low budget producers saw how audiences responded to space monsters and jungle hunters and quickly made their own versions with familiar setups and creature designs. Here are twenty movies ...

I always felt bad for Larry, Josef Sommer’s character in Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977). In Steven Spielberg’s magnum opus about UFOs and the governments who cover them up, Larry is a true ...

Few filmmakers have shaped our fascination with extraterrestrial life quite like Steven Spielberg. Through classics like Close Encounters of the Third Kind, E.T., and War of the Worlds, he turned UFO ...

I had much more innocent ambitions of spending a couple of days reuniting with my favorite people from high school. We’d booked this gorgeous Airbnb known as Rancho Panoramo, the kind far nicer than ...

As a child, Steven Spielberg stared at a meteor shower and began his love affair with the sky. The director of the 1977 ...

It's one thing to watch "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" in a theater. Watching it with Steven Spielberg? That's a master class. Viewing a scene with Richard Dreyfuss, the conditions of filming ...