Most science-fiction thrillers favor fiction over science, but the faux-documentary “Europa Report” does its best to stay true to the sci in sci-fi. First conceptualized in 2009, the film takes its ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A decade ago, audiences were treated to an adventure into the far reaches of our solar system. Six astronauts board a state of the ...

Deep space thrillers tend to sidestep logic in favor of nightmarish dread. Last year’s summer hit “Prometheus” featured an impossible near future in which travel to extrasolar planets was an easily ...

From “The Blair Witch Project” to the “Paranormal Activity” franchise, the found-footage theme has been wildly successful and widely replicated in horror films. Director Sebastian Cordero puts a smart ...

What if our first contact with extraterrestrial life – an event of immense scientific, philosophical and even theological importance – doesn’t go well? It’s one of the most venerable themes in the ...

At a time when most “science fiction” movies tend to sacrifice science for fiction in the pursuit of mainstream appeal, Europa Report offers a welcome reminder that a great sci-fi story need not ...

This found-footage tale of astronauts searching for signs of life near Jupiter is a reasonably plausible and impressively controlled achievement. Set in a post-NASA future when space travel has become ...

Spend enough time skimming around Hulu and you could find all manner of forgotten but hugely entertaining films to sit through. One treat worth adding to your watchlist is a great sci-fi movie that ...

“Europa Report” is a Grade A version of a B picture, a streamlined science fiction story that smartly tells a familiar tale without breaking the bank. Though modern moviemaking often mandates that ...

Found-footage technique is applied to the sci-fi genre in this story of a mission to Jupiter that goes terribly awry. By Stephen Farber “I saw something outside the ship.” Those ominous word — or a ...