With 'Project Hail Mary' opening in theaters, here are several essential films that explore the strange, high-stakes ...

For a very long time, action movies have been dominated by Bonds and Bournes. Female characters were still key players in movies, but were mostly given the supporting roles beside the ...

A Space Odyssey and Everything Everywhere All at Once have the best and most effective use of dialogue in the genre.

The Movie was, by the standards of late-1980s animated features, reasonably favorable. Reviewers acknowledged the film’s ...

Snowpiercer, a graphic novel, movie and TV series, imagines a different deep-freeze scenario: Geoengineering gone haywire. To mitigate global warming, scientists released aerosols into the atmosphere ...

With the 40th anniversary of Aliens just around the corner, these 10 80's masterpieces are must-watch gems for fans of James Cameron's action epic.

Star Wars had been released in theaters and changed everything about the way Hollywood perceived the genre, and television executives wanted in on that cash-grab just as much as movie executives. In ...

One of Steven Spielberg's greatest influences is this forgotten sci-fi movie from 1950 that changed the film genre forever.

Naturally, when narrowing down a decade’s worth of genre film to five entries, some excellent flicks didn’t quite make the ...

The discovery is the first since 2013, when nine missing episodes were found in the storeroom of a television relay station ...

Registration is now open for the 2026 edition of Crossword Con on April 10 in New York. I gave a talk about Sunday crosswords at this event last year, and it was remarkably fun to do even though I was ...

From 21 Jump Street to The Lego Movie, Phil Lord and Chris Miller specialise in making great pop cinema out of unlikely material. As their new film Project Hail Mary sends Ryan Gosling out into the ...