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Science Fiction

  1. movie review
    Adam Sandler Is All Wrong for SpacemanSandler plays a Czech astronaut. Paul Dano plays a giant spider from outer space that comes out of his nose. This movie should have been a lot better.
    By Bilge Ebiri
  2. movie review
    Zack Snyder’s Rebel Moon Is a Visionary SlogThe first part of his Star Wars–ish Netflix saga looks amazing but has lifeless characters and little excitement.
    By Bilge Ebiri
  3. (un)endings
    Foundation Has Immortality IssuesSeason two pushes up against the edge of how long characters can hang around without breaking the stakes.
    By Kathryn VanArendonk
  4. movie review
    Chris Hemsworth’s Career-Best Performance Elevates Netflix’s SpiderheadTop Gun: Maverick director Joseph Kosinski’s futuristic prison thriller is bizarre, thoughtful, and surprisingly funny.
    By Bilge Ebiri
  5. hole-some content
    Outer Range’s 15 Hole-iest Moments, RankedLife is short, let’s talk about a hole.
    By Maggie Fremont
  6. tv review
    The Man Who Fell to Earth Doesn’t Know Where to LandUnsteady writing muddles a compelling premise in Showtime’s serial adaptation of the 1963 Walter Tevis novel and 1976 David Bowie–starring film.
    By Roxana Hadadi
  7. tv review
    Prepare to Give Yourself Over to SeveranceApple TV+’s immersive, Philip K. Dick–esque mystery-thriller is one of the best new series of 2022.
    By Roxana Hadadi
  8. awards season
    Here Are the 2021 Hugo Award WinnersHats off to The Old Guard and The Good Place.
    By Bethy Squires
  9. movie review
    Finch Might Make You Cry Like a Baby, But Is It Any Good?Tom Hanks can’t save us, but he can save that dog.
    By Bilge Ebiri
  10. hbo
    HBO Cancels Lovecraft Country After One SeasonAnd creator Misha Green shares a glimpse of what season two would have been.
    By Rebecca Alter
  11. movie review
    The Tomorrow War Is Just As Stupid As It Needs to BeIt’s Edge of Tomorrow meets Interstellar meets Aliens meets Independence Day, with their brains removed. But that’s not necessarily a bad thing.
    By Bilge Ebiri
  12. red queen
    Elizabeth Banks, Like a Fish to Water, Returns to YA Adaptations With Red QueenBlah blah near-future America, blah blah superpowers, blah blah a fiery young woman born to poverty who changes the system. Obviously we’re in.
    By Rebecca Alter
  13. book review
    In Klara and the Sun, Artificial Intelligence Meets Real SacrificeKazuo Ishiguro’s novel proposes a world where the machines never revolt.
    By Helen Shaw
  14. movie review
    Chaos Walking Needs More Chaos, Less WalkingTom Holland and Daisy Ridley on the run from Mads Mikkelsen and his son Nick Jonas. Why isn’t this a masterpiece?
    By Bilge Ebiri
  15. castings
    Chiwetel Ejiofor to Fall to Earth in New Paramount+ AdaptationOf The Man Who Fell to Earth, that is.
    By Justin Curto
  16. chat room
    The Expanse’s Dominique Tipper on Naomi Nagata’s Hard Time in ‘Hard Vacuum’“I had these pain charts, and I just had to think about every single ounce of it, then throw it all away, take what I knew, and perform it.”
    By Clint Worthington
  17. timey wimey
    Doctor Who Season 13 Teaser: The Companion Is Daddy NowIntroducing John Bishop and his good head of hair.
    By Rebecca Alter
  18. trailer mix
    Is George Clooney Actually Santa in The Midnight Sky Trailer?The beard! The snow!
    By Rebecca Alter
  19. movie review
    Possessor Is a Spectacularly Violent Sci-Fi Thriller From David Cronenberg’s SonBrandon Cronenberg claims more territory on behalf of Canadian sci-fi and horror in his second film.
    By Alison Willmore
  20. movie review
    Sputnik Is a Thoughtful, If Modest, Russian Riff on AlienWe’ll take it.
    By Bilge Ebiri
  21. tv review
    In Lovecraft Country, Monsters Past and Present ConvergeA present-tense correction of science fiction’s racist past, the new HBO series is what academics would call a “rich text.”
    By Matt Zoller Seitz
  22. books
    George R.R. Martin Accused of Racism, Generally Sucking After Hosting HugosHe repeatedly referenced John Campbell, an editor so problematic an award formerly named for him was renamed just last year.
    By Madison Malone Kircher
  23. vulture recommends
    Now’s the Time to Make The Expanse Your New Epic ObsessionAmazon has gone all in on the former Syfy series, and with two new seasons of outer-space intrigue on the horizon, maybe you will too.
    By Alicia Lutes
  24. Watch a User Experience Expert React to Sci-fi Operating SystemsHow long until we can buy those Minority Report gloves?
    By Noah Kim
  25. tca press tour
    Star Trek: Discovery Writers to Reboot The Man Who Fell to EarthIt was a David Bowie movie, now it’ll be a CBS All Access TV show.
    By Josef Adalian
  26. tv review
    Another Life Is a Clumsy Muddle of Superior Science-Fiction StoriesThe new Netflix series can’t seem to make up its mind whether to be smart and challenging or trashy and shallow.
    By Matt Zoller Seitz
  27. adaptations
    A Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy Series Is Headed to HuluFormer Lost showrunner Carlton Cuse is involved.
    By Megh Wright
  28. best of 2018
    The 10 Best Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books of 2018Sentient plants, a telepathic key, obsessive-compulsive zombies and other avatars of our broken world.
    By Jaime Green
  29. How Close Are We To Real-Life Westworld Robots?And how should we treat them when we get them?
    By Granger Willson
  30. Do Androids Dream of Colossal Women?On Blade Runner 2049, and why we keep imagining a future where our cities play host to gigantic, nude, nameless women.
    By Emily Yoshida
  31. surprise releases
    Brand New’s Fifth Studio Album, Science Fiction, Is Out Right Now (Yes, Now!)It’s the band’s first studio album since 2009.
    By Jordan Crucchiola
  32. science fiction
    Tom DeLonge Is Directing a Sci-Fi Movie About a ‘Tribe of Broken Youth’It’s based on his YA franchise about skateboarding teens who investigate the paranormal.
    By Hunter Harris
  33. the end is nigh
    Neil Gaiman Adapting His Novel Good Omens for TVA posthumously found letter from Terry Pratchett urged Gaiman to go on with the project.
    By Greg Cwik
  34. sci-fi drama
    Neill Blomkamp: Alien Out, Prometheus InAll is fair in love and aliens.
    By Devon Ivie
  35. books
    How This Year’s Hugo Awards Got HijackedScience fiction has its Gamergate moment, led by a bunch of mostly white, mostly male writers calling themselves the “Sad Puppies.”
    By Greg Cwik
  36. Comics Stars Lemire and Nguyen Talk DescenderPlus, Lemire gabs about his new run on Marvel’s Hawkeye!
    By Abraham Riesman
  37. ken cosgrove
    Damon Lindelof Now Writing Mad Men Fan FictionThose Ken Cosgrove robot stories don’t write themselves.
    By Margaret Lyons
  38. clickables
    Read a Beautiful Mapped History of Science FictionFrom Gilgamesh to steam punk.
    By Amanda Dobbins