These wildly different films explore the wondrous, and sometimes terrifying possibilities of contacting extra-terrestrial life.

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Steven Spielberg’s DISCLOSURE DAY is a gripping, heart-racing chase thriller. It’s one of Spielberg’s most exciting, accomplished movies. The thrills come with his trademark, heartfelt visual displays ...

Michael Gallagher's creepy and disturbing Heaven's Gate movie is the the most potent drama about life inside a cult since ...

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 ...

Spielberg returns to one of his favorite subjects with a fun and goofy popcorn movie that shows how far he's come in the last ...

Steven Spielberg reminds us why he's one of the best with Disclosure Day, an exhilarating and thoughtful sci-fi film with a ...

In Amy Berryman’s clever and touching new play “Alien Girls,” college roommates and aspiring writers Carolyn and Tiffany form a “best friends for life” bond that seems unshakeable until that ...

“Alien Girls”, now in its world premiere after a developmental run in the Globe’s Powers New Voices Festival, is funny, sweet, quietly devastating, and just odd enough to keep you leaning forward.

A New Zealand woman gets knocked up by something from another world in a movie that has a sweet, sticky heart underneath its juvenile humor and outrageous prosthetics. “Mum, I’m Alien Pregnant” ...

Mum, I’m Alien Pregnant is a refreshing sci-fi body horror comedy featuring a charming cast and some genuinely shocking moments that go to screamingly obscene places with glee and cosmic purpose. Best ...