Movies about disasters—natural or human-made—have been produced since the earliest days of film. As early as 1916, a disaster with an extraterrestrial cause was touted in The End of the World, a Danish film about a passing comet causing chaos and ...

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 ...

“Predator: Badlands” is attracting significant buzz in theaters, but is it the best film in the long-running sci-fi franchise? The year 1987 saw the release of the series’s first film, “Predator.” It stars Arnold Schwarzenegger as Dutch, a ...

For nearly five decades, Steven Spielberg has helped define what alien stories mean to movie audiences. Sometimes they arrive as cosmic miracles. Sometimes as existential threats. Sometimes as something stranger and harder to name. Now, the director behind ...

Welcome to another edition of Trust Me, I Watch Everything, a weekly guide to all the new movies released every Friday. At home, you can rent or buy the latest installment in the Predator franchise or a unique true-crime doc about the Zodiac Killer.