With 'Disclosure Day,' the director returns to a longtime preoccupation. Two Times staffers explore his ongoing fascination ...

For roughly the first three decades of his career, Spielberg tended to take a fairly sanguine view of aliens, refusing to ...

There's a distinct difference that changes everything in Spielberg's approach to 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind' and ...

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

As a child, Steven Spielberg stared at a meteor shower and began his love affair with the sky. The director of the 1977 classic "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" returns with "Disclosure Day," ...

Disclosure Day is designed as a standalone story, but Close Encounters of the Third Kind adds valuable context. Here's how ...

If you were to ask someone which was the seminal point as far as depiction of aliens in Hollywood is concerned, their answer would depend on which era they belonged to. A 90s kid would mention ...

The 1977 sci-fi UFO epic is influential yet, thanks partly to Star Wars, it's also like nothing else ...

Steven Spielberg's 1977 classic tapped into anxieties about the US government hiding UFO information from the public. It holds the key to the director's highly anticipated new film, Disclosure Day.

The following post contains some SPOILERS for Disclosure Day, although not much more than what was shown in the movie’s ...

Five Steven Spielberg movies have been about aliens, including Close Encounters of the Third Kind and Disclosure Day, but ...