This cartoon shows a UFO hovering above the Earth, shining a bright beam down like a tractor light. Instead of pulling up people or cattle, it is lifting oil barrels into the spacecraft. On the side ...

The 20-year-old Cartoon Network franchise never lost sight of the childlike joy that comes with being a superhero. Reading time 4 minutes For people who’ve made action-focused western animation a key ...

Science fiction has long speculated about the possibility of first contact with an alien species from a distant world and how we might be able to communicate with them. But what if we simply don’t ...

Fresh off a cameo appearance in the new season of Futurama, Victor Wembanyama is stepping into another sci-fi animated universe, this time as the star of his own series. The San Antonio Spurs’ former ...

James Cameron’s Aliens is one of the most beloved sci-horror franchises ever made, full of xenomorphs tearing through space marines, with R rated violence, body horror, and all that grit. In the early ...

Thirty years ago, Pixar rocketed into the popular imagination with Buzz Lightyear’s much-quoted motto, “To infinity and beyond!” Twenty-eight hit animated movies later, infinity comes for Elio Solís, ...

One Sunday morning in May, 2023, I arrived at a literary agent’s Manhattan apartment, bearing a lemon tart, to attend a brunch in honor of the author Sayaka Murata. I rang the doorbell. There was a ...

Elio, Pixar’s newest movie coming June 20, is a sci-fi alien adventure about a lonely boy who has the time of his life after he’s abducted by extraterrestrials. Previous teasers have showed off the ...