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

The excellent sci-fi is out now in cinemas.

After decades of “Alien” movies (and their rip-offs) convincing us that deep space alien encounters end with bloody bodily destruction, directors Phil Lord and Christopher Miller suggest in their ...

Ryan Gosling's "Project Hail Mary" contains a lot of scientific scenes and flashbacks. Here's a breakdown of the movie's most head-scratching moments.

What if running into an alien while far from home wasn’t necessarily terrifying? After decades of “Alien” movies (and their rip-offs) convincing us that deep space alien encounters end with ...

From isolated lunar bases to interstellar odysseys and distant galaxies, these 15 films explore humanity’s courage, survival and wonder, turning the infinite void of space into a stage for stories ...

Director Patrick Hughes reveals the literal nightmare that inspired his "grueling" action-horror hybrid and why Alan Ritchson is the modern-day Arnold Schwarzenegger.

Seven years ago, Andy Weir was busy writing Project Hail Mary, his sci-fi epic about a school teacher, Dr Ryland Grace, who wakes up on a spacecraft and gradually remembers he’s there to save ...

Project Hail Mary” is an upcoming science fiction space-adventure film based on the book of the same name by author Andy Weir, who also wrote ...

Problems of the natural world can be addressed through, and only through, mastery and cooperation might seem like a truism, but in Weir's stories, it emerges as an expansively hopeful thesis.

Like the lead character of “Project Hail Mary,” some scientists are proposing ways that life might exist beyond a star’s “habitable zone,” often considered the gold standard of potential livability ...

As expansive as the sci-fi genre is within cinema, too many great movies are completely forgotten by audiences, like Moon and The Quiet Earth.