Ridley Scott's best sci-fi movie is officially taking over the world on HBO Max after grossing ten times its budget at the box office.

When the world is full of darkness and existential threat, how can science fiction adapt? When Earth can be more frightening than space, how can we tell captivating stories that take place beyond our world?

Most alien invasion movies play out the exact same way. Some human beings are going about their lives, spaceships arrive, they blow things up, humans fight back, and save the day. The end. That's not always a bad thing,

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 ...