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I keep waiting to become more cynical about movies as a film critic. Every week I read one think piece after the next about how cinema is dying and no good movies are made anymore, but 2025 was packed ...
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Alien invasion stories are among the earliest science fiction in the Western canon—they not only explore the strange and unknown but also heighten the stakes by bringing danger inside human ...
This story first appeared in Trying!, a thoughtful, funny, wide-ranging daily newsletter featuring essays from the mind of Matt Gross. You can sign up for them here. Those were simple aliens for ...
This post contains spoilers for Vince Gilligan’s new Apple TV series Pluribus. If it would make you unhappy to read them before seeing the first two episodes, keep this tab open until you watch them.
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Everyone loves a good alien invasion story, preferably one with city-sized ships and physics-defying tech. There's just one big problem with that. The Milky Way is estimated to contain 100 to 400 ...