There's little reason to arrive early at the cinema these days, now that filmgoers are forced to endure as many advertisements as movie trailers. Once upon a time, though, the animated Looney Tunes ...

Former U.S. President Barack Obama said he did not see evidence that aliens "have made contact with us," after sending social ...

A movie by the creators of Steven Universe and Amphibia was suddenly cancelled by Sony, and the reason given was it wasn't ...

There’s no denying the allure of alien artifacts. Science fiction is awash in the material remnants of extraterrestrial civilizations, which surface in everything from the classic books of Arthur C.

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 ...

Pixar’s Elio created its alien beings not by gazing into telescopes, but by peering into microscopes. Decades later, Jessup found himself going small once again to find inspiration for Pixar’s outer ...

FX’s Alien prequel series premieres on August 12th. FX’s Alien prequel series premieres on August 12th. is a reporter focusing on film, TV, and pop culture. Before The Verge, he wrote about comic ...

The '90s were a golden age for Saturday morning cartoons—an era when anything could be animated, no matter how weird, wild, or completely unhinged. From mutant biker mice and time-traveling teens to ...

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 ...