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A look at 10 of the greatest alien sci-fi movies, from Ridley Scott's Alien to Denis Villeneuve's Arrival, none by Steven Spielberg.

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Ack! Ack! IGN can exclusively reveal that director Tim Burton’s cult classic alien invasion comedy Mars Attacks! will get a ...

You might think that legendary sci-fi author Arthur C. Clarke would've adored the Star Trek franchise, but that wasn't ...

The filmmakers swap stories about working with Tim Burton on one of the 1990s’ wackiest alien-invasion films.To celebrate the ...

Independence Day almost had a different title. Though today there are a multitude of movies that focus on alien invasions, ...

In 1877, an Italian astronomer mapped faint lines on Mars and called them canali, meaning channels or grooves. But the word ...

Every Fourth of July, there's one movie that I almost always end up watching, and that's Independence Day . I still remember ...

Left to Right: Steven Yeun in "Nope," the alien in Steven Spielberg's "E.T." and Scarlett Johansson in "Under the Skin" (Universal Pictures / A24) It didn’t take long for stories about ...

Well, as a matter of fact, I have often had close encounters with aliens, only I never bothered to mention it here. For this ...