With 'Disclosure Day,' the director returns to a longtime preoccupation. Two Times staffers explore his ongoing fascination with extraterrestrials.

These wildly different films explore the wondrous, and sometimes terrifying possibilities of contacting extra-terrestrial life.

As much as Steven Spielberg likes aliens, he seems to prefer holding them at arm’s length. The creatures in Close Encounters ...

William likes taking edibles, watching movies with his dogs, and then writing about those movies. He doesn't have social media so if you want more of his unhinged opinions or another place to comment ...

“May the Fourth” has always seemed like a particularly fake corporate holiday because “Star Wars Day” is like the conspicuously missing Children’s Day: Isn’t that every day? Do we really need a day ...

Controversial Star Wars details often dominate the online discourse about this franchise. However, despite such elements sometimes being pervasive in discussions, one shouldn't forget the many amazing ...

And here I was thinking the summer had only one movie set in the Star Wars universe. Turns out there are two. The first was, ...

Otherworldly aliens are as important to the "Star Wars" saga as a rousing score or elaborate outer space fights between cool spaceships. From the very first entry in this narrative, "Star Wars" has ...