Forty years ago, two movies rewrote the rules for science fiction. The first, of course, was 1977’s “Star Wars,” which made every child dream of space, introducing cuddly, nonsense-spouting aliens ...

THERE is such an ocean of gloop in Ridley Scott’s sequel to Prometheus one is tempted to advise the wearing of a wet-suit to the cinema. The many-toothed monsters have always been prone to a bad case ...