Previous landmark scientific discoveries like the Higgs boson provide a better template for what it will take to confirm whether aliens have made contact with Earth.

The director of 'Close Encounters' and 'ET', an original story, 'X-Files'-style conspiracy theories… 'Disclosure Day' is a welcome escape from the mega-franchises.

Emily Blunt and Josh O'Connor star in Spielberg's latest alien opus. It opens June 12.

It's an invigorating chase thriller, but where Spielberg once seemed to be leading the culture, he's now following decades of lore and mythology.

The director’s Disclosure Day is an alien allegory for the current moment.

Filmmakers have shaped our perception of the unknown, and Steven Spielberg has had aliens on the mind for a while now. He even believes they have been to Earth and may still be…

I registi hanno plasmato il nostro immaginario sull’ignoto e Steven Spielberg pensa agli alieni da tempo. Crede persino che siano già stati sulla Terra e che vivano ancora tra…

Master of science fiction Steven Spielberg returns to the world of extraterrestrials with “Disclosure Day,” his fourth film centered on alien encou...

Spielberg fans have picked up on similarities between new film and 1977 classic

As Steven Spielberg releases a new film on extraterrestrials, here's a brief history of modern alien conspiracies and why scientists are now taking UFO reports seriously.

The sci-fi thriller, starring Emily Blunt, Josh O'Connor, Colin Firth and Colman Domingo and featuring an epic score by the great John Williams, hits theaters on June 12.

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Steven Spielberg has said 'we are not alone' as he admits to believing in aliens, despite not believing they were real when he made Close Encounters of the Third Kind

With Steven Spielberg’s new extraterrestrial film Disclosure Day just out, it’s the ideal time to watch Close Encounter of the Third Kind – perhaps the perfect UFO film, says film…

The veteran director says that while his 1977 film Close Encounters of the Third Kind was ‘speculative’, Disclosure Day is the real deal.

For over a century, science fiction has used aliens to talk about empire, paranoia, language, and power — here’s how first-contact cinema became a mirror for humanity’s shifting…

What Steven Spielberg’s new alien movie reveals about our UFO obsessions.

Spielberg's new thriller centers on a massive U.S. conspiracy to hide the fact that aliens have been visiting Earth for decades. If anything, though, the movie's pleasures feel…

Josh O'Connor, Emily Blunt and Colin Firth lead the director's most spiritual film in years

Previous landmark scientific discoveries like the Higgs boson provide a better template for what it will take to confirm whether aliens have made contact with Earth.

The new movie Disclosure Day is all about a big, alien secret. But SETI researchers behind the updated post-detection protocol say they aren’t in the business of secrets.