scifi

Science fiction movies often encourage audiences to dream up technologies beyond their wildest dreams, making them seem realistic enough to be plausible, only to be bitterly disappointed by the limitations of real-world science. The most ambitious science fiction movies have presented a wide variety of settings, from the...

It looks to be a case of legendary sci-fi movie star meets legendary sci-fi film franchise...

Actor Ahmed Best wants a better canon ending for The Phantom Menace's Jar Jar Binks. For now, there's Darth Jar Jar in the next LEGO Star Wars animated special.

Major movie film crews are again descending on London as a sci-fi horror comedy featuring a stellar Canadian cast is being filmed here

Without Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, the home video market may have never experienced that '80s boom that changed movies forever.

The intuitive and emotional Deanna Troi and the logical Spock couldn't be more different, on paper, but that's not really the situation.

After Thor, Chris Hemsworth says he relished throwing the superhero 'rules' out the window to play the villain in 'Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga.' As for capes, "Hate 'em," he says. "So impractical."

Let's all go to the movies.

In 1950, a U.S. Army psyops officer named Paul Linebarger used a pseudonym to publish a science-fiction story titled “Scanners Live in Vain” in a pulp magazine. It was about a man named Martel who works for the “deep state” in the far future as a mysterious “scanner,” or starship pilot, and whose mind is manipulated...

What are you doing to celebrate #Maythe4th?

Hollywood must be afraid of Einstein considering how few movies seriously address the theory of relativity. Here are the ones who actually face the cold truth about space travel.

The Xenomorph might be one of the best monsters in movie history but the real terror in Alien comes from the company Weyland-Yutani....

Scientists disagree about the brain size and intelligence of Tyrannosaurs and other large dinosaurs.

Wesley Crusher is right up there with Scrappy Doo and Poochie as far as hated fictional characters, and Wil Wheaton knows exactly why.

This has a lot in common with science fiction, a genre full of thought experiments that ask Heinlein's famous three questions:...

It's a slightly click-baity title, but as we're still generating more content for our magazines, this one included, why not?...

Come for Edgar Allan Poe's gothic classic, stay for 21st-century gay revenge horror by Wendy Pini of "Elfquest" fame.

'Stellar Blade' delivers a narrative that will make you question what it really means to be human, while also requiring split-second timing in battle if you want to live to tell the tale.

How did a terrifying alleged incident involving "real" extraterrestrials inspire Steven Spielberg to create the cuddly E.T. and Poltergeist?

Anya Taylor-Joy's Alia will presumably have a much bigger role in Dune: Part Three, but adapting this Frank Herbert character won't be easy.

Sci-fi fiends have a long history of saving their darlings. Francis Ford Coppola’s epic “Megalopolis,” 40 years in the making, could be their biggest save yet.

The Tomorrow Prize and The Green Feather Award: Celebrity Readings & Honors will take place May 11. The Omega Sci-Fi Project’s culminating event recognizes outstanding new works of science fict…

'The Matrix' defined cyberpunk for a generation, but it's Cronenberg's grotesque vision of the future, released just weeks later, that will haunt you long after the credits roll.

There’s a case to be made that the Xenomorph is the greatest movie monster ever conceived. It’s certainly among the most iconic. H.R. Giger, the Swiss artist who designed the title creature of Alien, took inspiration from Francis Bacon and Rolls-Royce, and emerged with a biomechanical killing machine that’s instantly...