Hailing from director Denis Villeneuve (Prisoners, Scicario), Arrival was never going to be a predictable alien invasion film. Instead, the plot follows Dr Louise Banks (Amy Adams), a linguistics ...

Denis Villeneuve, who directed the superlative thriller Sicario, delivers another clever drama with the science-fiction movie Arrival. Based on a short story by Asian-American writer Ted Chiang, it’s ...

It's up to Banks, a mother who has loved and lost, to put her life on the line by reaching out to the extraterrestrials. Are we alone in the universe? It is a question that has preoccupied filmmakers ...

The most common depiction of aliens in the science fiction genre usually links them to enemies, threats, and invaders. The majority of sci-fi movies see aliens as antagonists and villains, who are ...

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