Science-fiction movies have always been a genre about more than laser guns, neon cities, and starships. While many works use these familiar setups to bring a familiar approach to viewers, many science ...

Anyone could make a mistake in thinking that the “fiction” bit of science fiction absolves the genre of any responsibility to the real thing. To pick just the movie to illustrate the point, 2019’s ...

Contact, Children of Men, and 2001: A Space Odyssey are all among the most realistic hard sci-fi movies of all time.

Defining a science fantasy movie is pretty straightforward. Such a film is a mash-up of two genres: science fiction and fantasy, much like how there also exist romantic comedies, action/adventure ...