Often the best science fiction movies are really just stories about ... it was entirely new. A new cast of characters in a new environment. The characters from the previous films had lived with ...

This month’s picks include movies about an alien best friend ... but being alone. Some science fiction experiments with plot and some with form; Anisia Uzeyman and Saul Williams’s “Neptune ...

The genre has produced many incredible movies. It’s easy to name some of the best science fiction movies of all ... play fascinating and entertaining characters that leave memorable impressions.

Sigourney Weaver’s Ellen Ripley is one of science fiction’s most memorable female characters. She’s not a damsel in distress—she’s a ferocious final girl, and the only survivor to defeat ...

Science-fiction author N.K. Jemisin loved ... Martin-Green as the franchise’s first Black female lead, feature “fully raced characters and break with accepted ‘Star Trek’ canon in ...

The script by Angela Bourassa (whose “If You Were the Last,” from 2023, was an underrated rom-com in space) has some blind spots: Are there really not any books or movies in this world that ...