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

Director Roland Emmerich’s 1996 alien invasion movie Independence Day arrives on Netflix today and I, for one, can’t wait to watch the film for what might be the 50th time. Sure, there are plenty of epic movies with aliens in them, but I contend that ...

Spielberg’s latest film about aliens and UFOs, “Disclosure Day,” arrives this week and rates as an excursion into his perhaps favorite field.

It's a big universe out there, and while we're all for exploring it, a specific subgenre of science fiction movies has hinted that it might be a bad idea. Alien invasion movies have come in droves over the years, making us fearful of what lies out there in ...