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

Steven Spielberg’s fourth film about alien encounters is “Disclosure Day,” following “ET: The Extra-Terrestrial,” “War of the Worlds,” and “Close Encounters of the Third Kind.” That inspired us to take another look at what Roger Ebert thought about some of the most famous and infamous alien movies,

John Carpenter's The Thing is a sci-fi horror classic, but decades before his vision haunted the big screen, there was another adaptation.

On this day nearly four decades ago, a bit of sci-fi movie history was made when one of the best action movies of the '80s opened.

From The Matrix to Alien, these sci-fi masterpieces prove perfection is possible when world building, emotion, and vision align.