Movies about disasters—natural or human-made—have been produced since the earliest days of film. As early as 1916, a disaster with an extraterrestrial cause was ...

It's a big universe out there, and while we're all for exploring it, a specific subgenre of science fiction movies has hinted that it might be a bad idea. Alien invasion movies have come in droves ...

Director Roland Emmerich’s 1996 alien invasion movie Independence Day arrives on Netflix today and I, for one, can’t wait to watch the film for what might be the 50th time. Sure, there are plenty of ...

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 ...

Science fiction films often anticipate the future. Invasion movies, a popular niche, might give us a clue about our own. What do I mean by invasion? Aliens and microbes from outer space, earthly ...