There’s dozens, maybe hundreds of movies where “America!” is the predominant theme—some reverent, some scathing, all of it ...

With "Disclosure Day" (opening Friday), director Steven Spielberg goes back to the first-contact well that has served him so well in the past, from "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" and "E.T. the ...

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The directors of DreamWorks' Forgotten Island talk the movie's surprising influences, the terrifying new villain, and that ...

Special effects master Stan Winston, who created the creatures in 'The Terminator,' 'Predator' & 'Jurassic Park,' is the ...

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During its return to the earth, commercial spaceship Nostromo intercepts a distress signal from a distant planet. When a three-member team of the crew discovers a chamber containing thousands of eggs ...

His new alien thriller has shades of “Close Encounters of the Third Kind,” “Minority Report,” even “The Post”—but the retreads yield diminishing returns.

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A new documentary has entered production chronicling the life and accomplishments of special effects legend Stan Winston.