Ladies and gentlemen, we are floating in space. I felt it in the new film Gravity; I knew what it was like to be set adrift in outer space. Not the series of half-understood, embellished images in a century of movies and books,...

Ever since I was a kid, I have loved Japanese monster films. They played a big role in developing my love of cinema, and I consider the original Godzilla (1954) one of the finest examples of allegorical science-fiction in film ...

Original science-fiction is a rare thing in Hollywood today. With movie budgets climbing into the stratosphere and so much riding on every tent-pole release, studios are usually unwilling to take a risk on something that’...