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

Steven Spielberg's new sci-fi movie isn't on the level of "E.T." or "Close Encounters," but it has its moments.

Five Steven Spielberg movies have been about aliens, including Close Encounters of the Third Kind and Disclosure Day, but ...

In a fast-paced sci-fi fantasy, infused with epic intentions and starring Emily Blunt, Josh O’Connor and Colman Domingo, the ...

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 ...

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.

The CEO of the Dallas nonprofit Hunger Busters has resigned after a CBS News Texas I-Team investigation found the charity failed to deliver the daily brown-bag meals it promised thousands of ...

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 ...

The misanthropy of director Yorgos Lanthimos hits a wall in "Bugonia," his latest venture into gobsmacking unpleasantness, in which a pair of lowlifes kidnap a high-ranking CEO whom they suspect of ...

Teddy (Plemons) is a sweaty, nervy conspiracy theorist factory worker who believes a race of aliens called Andromedans is bent on destroying Earth and controlling mankind. Imparted with this knowledge ...