John Krasinski in A Quiet Place surrounded by shots from No One Will Save You, The World's End, Independence Day, and Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978) - Static Media Ever since H.G. Wells released "War of the Worlds" in 1898, popular culture has been ...

Movies that center on the battles fought by members of the military certainly have their place, but sometimes it's more fun to see what (albeit, fictional) soldiers might do against an alien combatant rather than another flesh-and-blood human being.

Steven Spielberg’s sci-fi triumphs Close Encounters of the Third Kind and E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial understood and exploited fears of the other while championing understanding and communion as the noblest responses to intergalactic phenomena.

Steven Spielberg returns to alien storytelling with Disclosure Day, a global thriller exploring what happens when humanity learns we are not alone. It is a premise that feels distinctly Spielbergian. It is also arriving at a moment when alien stories once ...

Most alien invasion movies play out the exact same way. Some human beings are going about their lives, spaceships arrive, they blow things up, humans fight back, and save the day. The end. That's not always a bad thing, though. There's something satisfying ...

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 epic movies with aliens in them, but I contend that ...