With 'Disclosure Day,' the director returns to a longtime preoccupation. Two Times staffers explore his ongoing fascination with extraterrestrials.

Plenty of alien invasion movies have become box office hits and certified classics, but here are some forgotten alien invasion movies that still hold up today.

Steven Spielberg’s fourth film about alien encounters is “Disclosure Day,” following “ET: The Extra-Terrestrial,” “War of the Worlds,” and “Close Encounters of the Third Kind.” That inspired us to take another look at what Roger Ebert thought about some of the most famous and infamous alien movies,

J.J. Abrams' Super 8, which turns 15 the week of Disclosure Day's release, captures only part of producer Steven Spielberg's magic. Set in Ohio in 1979, Super 8 follows 14-year-old Joe (Joel Courtney), whose mother has just died in a freak industrial ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Filmmaker Steven Spielberg speaks on stage for "The Big Picture With Steven Spielberg" during the 2026 SXSW Conference And Festival at Hilton Austin on March 13, 2026 in Austin, Texas.

Steven Spielberg spoke on stage Friday at the South by Southwest Film & TV Festival in Austin, Texas. (Gary Miller / FilmMagic via Getty Images) One of the most anticipated events at this year’s SXSW Film & TV Festival wasn’t a movie at all, but a ...

Shrishty is a decade-old journalist covering a variety of beats between politics to pop culture, but movies are her first love, which led her to study Film and TV Development at UCLAx. She lives and breathes cinema and sometimes wakes up with the close-up ...