Project Hail Mary, Disclosure Day, Supergirl and more films reveal 2026 is a prime year for science fiction fare.

Science fiction movies built the foundation of the feature film medium at the turn of the century, with Georges Méliès' A Trip to the Moon being one of the first movies that could be considered to be ...

Following up a film like Parasite, which began its awards circuit run with the Palme d'Or at Cannes Film Festival and ended by becoming the first non-English film to win Best Picture at the Academy ...

Amazing science fiction trilogies are actually few and far between, and the very best represent the pinnacle of the genre itself. Science fiction is one of the pillars of cinema, and the genre has ...

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Luc Haasbroek is a writer and videographer from Durban, South Africa. He has been writing professionally about pop culture for eight years. Luc's areas of interest are broad: he's just as passionate ...

In this month’s picks, there is cloud busting in Peru, a shadowy astronaut drama, doomsday preppers in New Zealand and more. By Elisabeth Vincentelli Rent or buy it on most major platforms. The first ...

Kristy Ambrose has been writing professionally since 2010. She dabbles in various genres, but her favorites are fantasy and science fiction. She creates everything from fanfiction to serialized novels ...

Ed Bloomer, an astronomer at the Royal Observatory Greenwich, examines how well science fiction films have predicted futures that, by now, are already part of our past. Take 1982’s Blade Runner, set ...

International science fiction filmmakers, often sidelined by Hollywood, are shining brightly at UCLA. The UCLA Film & Television Archive and the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television’s cinema ...