The Alien franchise is one of the most important in all of sci-fi cinema, with each instalment charting the evolution of the genre itself.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When most people think science fiction, they first think of outer space. But space movies are hard to make, and most SF filmmakers instead opt for something easier and more budget ...

Crowd-pleasing outer space adventure is quippy and cute but light on meaning. There’s something pre-assembled about Phil Lord and Christopher Miller’s new space action dramedy Project Hail Mary, as though it has been built out of particularly well-loved parts of recent sci-fi and polished to a big-budget sheen.

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 touted in The End of the World, a Danish film about a passing comet causing chaos and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Setting a movie in outer space opens up an endless realm of possibilities. Franchises like Star Trek use it to explore hopeful what-ifs. Star Wars uses it as a background for high ...