The most chilling line in the new movie Arrival is: "We have a protocol for this." This would be the descent of 12 massive alien spacecraft from outer space, transgressing what is known about the ...

It's up to Banks, a mother who has loved and lost, to put her life on the line by reaching out to the extraterrestrials. Are we alone in the universe? It is a question that has preoccupied filmmakers ...

Close Encounters Of The Third Kind regarded its alien visitors with childlike awe. But what if our first contact with extraterrestrials proved so jarring, such a shock to our collective psyche, that ...

The following contains mild spoilers for Arrival. It’s no coincidence that the wave of science fiction films that emerged in the 1950s rode on a tide of post-war anxiety. The advent of the atom bomb, ...

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In 1970, scientists identified a meteor-like object that had entered our Solar System. The US probe Mariner 10 was returning from an unrelated mission to photograph Saturn when it passed the object.

It’s a long time since a commercial science-fiction movie has addressed itself so directly to big ideas. We should be glad for Arrival, writes Sam Adams. Denis Villeneuve specialises in films with ...

DENIS Villeneuve's new film Arrival features a linguist as one of its main characters: not a fictionalised one, like a token forensic expert or a Henry Higgins, but a field linguist who is portrayed ...