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

From gritty urban dramas like Taxi Driver to groundbreaking sci-fi such as A New Hope, these are some of the most influential 1970s films.

A half-century after he last made a film on the subject, Steven Spielberg is coming clean about where he stands on extraterrestrial life in the universe. “I don’t know any more than any of you do, but ...

The 1970s were a pivotal decade for cinema, and some of its greatest gems, like The Exorcist and Apocalypse Now, have only ...

A New Hope - Inflation-adjusted domestic gross: $627,424,546 - Unadjusted domestic gross: $125,989,616 - Box office share in calendar year: data not available The first film in George Lucas's epic ...

These bonafide classics remain as captivating as they were upon release nearly half a century later.

David Cronenberg can't stand the sci-fi horror movie directed by Ridley Scott, which he believes writer Dan O'Bannon ...

Over six decades of “Doctor Who,” the intergalactic adventurer’s adversaries have included evil robots, rampaging Yeti — and the BBC, which erased many early episodes of the now-iconic sci-fi TV ...

Like the lead character of “Project Hail Mary,” some scientists are proposing ways that life might exist beyond a star’s ...

Nothing is scarier than low box office ratings and poor reviews, and for these horror movie sequels, that nightmare became an ...

And the litany of notable or interesting genre films from 1982 is extensive. From "Blade Runner" to "Conan the Barbarian," from "Poltergeist" to "Megaforce," from "Rocky III" to "The Dark Crystal" to ...

The Courant’s arts picks for March 22-28 also include contemporary classical performances, Rosanne Cash performing at two venues and two plays about the Connecticut witchcraft trial.