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 ...

Sci-fi stories ask “what if,” and they answer “then what.” Whether the film is an exciting blockbuster, a tiny and ambitious ...

When Ryan Gosling interacts on screen with his alien buddy, which he does for more than half of “Project Hail Mary,” he wasn’t staring at a green screen as cameras rolled. Instead, he was playing off ...

In space, no one will hear you learn life lessons about being a good person.

The film that follows — flatly repetitive with far too many wildly misguided and self-serious moments — is turgid from start ...

Astrobiologist and planetary scientist Mike Wong is a big fan of Rocky’s non-traditional look, because it points to the fact that evolution is often random.

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Phil Lord and Christopher Miller’s Project Hail Mary is a grand sci-fi odyssey that’s powered by the marquee magnetism of Ryan Gosling. Yet those expecting merely a straightforward save-the-world ...

Starship Troopers, directed by Paul Veorhoven, is a fantastic movie. Instead of depicting fascism from arm’s length, the movie completely immerses you in fictional military propaganda. The movie ...

Programmer-turned-novelist Andy Weir has now cranked out two bestselling sci-fi novels that Hollywood could not resist.

Perhaps the reason Project Hail Mary hits the spot in the spring of 2026 is that novelist Andy Weir, who wrote the 2021 novel ...

So, I thought, what if all of the magic from that wizarding world was really just electronics? Do you remember that scene where the main characters were having issues with the "leviosa" spell? This is ...