Aliens have been a subject of films for over a century, and they’ve grown into a beloved and oft-revisited trope in cinema during that time. Envisioned and executed by some of the greatest filmmakers ...

Arrival is the most graceful sci-fi film in recent memory. The storyline is deceptively complex, told in what appears to be a simple narrative structure until a looping twist at the end. And visually, ...

"The Arrival" was quietly released by Orion Pictures on May 31, 1996, one month before the comic book-like alien invasion spectacle of "Independence Day" landed, and a year before ...

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“The biggest source of our confusion was the Heptapods’ ‘writing.’ It didn’t look like writing at all; rather, it resembled a collection of elaborate graphic designs. There was nothing that could be ...