Great sci-fi movies have even greater opening hooks that grip viewers from the beginning itself. However, even among the movies with some of the best opening sequences, there is one that easily ranks ...

In April of 1968, Stanley Kubrick’s “2001: A Space Odyssey” premiered in the United States. Now, on the 50th anniversary of the film’s release, Michael Benson provides the definitive account of how ...

In 1968, a film arrived unlike anything audiences had seen. Directed by Stanley Kubrick and written with science fiction author Arthur C. Clarke, 2001: A Space Odyssey combined scientific rigor with ...

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

Despite being made almost 60 years ago, Stanley Kubrick’s “2001: A Space Odyssey” still holds up. Its groundbreaking special effects inspired George Lucas, James Cameron, Christopher Nolan and more.

Space is a frontier that’s nearly impossible to get just right, and not every film can portray it without it coming across as cheesy or without losing the inherently terrifying aspects of it once it’s ...

Stanley Kubrick’s 1968 film predicted tablet-like devices and the silence of space long before any of it was known to man. Fifty-eight years after its release, its track record reads less like ...