For decades, storytellers have been imagining what it might be like when humanity first makes contact with an alien intelligence. In 1998, author Ted Chiang delivered the novella “Story of Your Life,” ...

As with all of Villeneuve's films, be they thrillers or science fiction, Arrival is visually arresting. At first, the director lays the film out as a mystery about whether humanity and ...

Warning: This article contains spoilers for Arrival. In the 2016 movie Arrival, a ship of extraterrestrial beings lands on Earth with a unique purpose that is far different from what audiences might ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Mark Hughes is an entertainment writer covering cinema and genre TV. Increased efforts to locate intelligent extraterrestrial ...

"The worst day of the week." There's a new animated sci-fi short film in the works titled Alien: Monday, an Alien-inspired short set on a spacecraft involving a xenomorph on the loose. We missed this ...