Two childhood best friends enter high school, and new things crop up for both of them, causing issues, heartache, and leading them to discover themselves a bit more in the process.
Contact (1997) [Science Fiction Month]
A female astronomer encounters pushback and restrictions in her race to decipher an alleged message from extraterrestrial life, and I’m turn make contact with them.
Forbidden Planet (1956) [Science Fiction Month]
Stop me if this sounds familiar. An organized crew aboard an intergalactic vessel travels to a far off world to check in on its inhabitants. Communication is made, and a mysterious threat entices the crew to come down to the planet and investigate. The crew comes into contact with science and fantasy far beyond their initial comprehension. By the end of their adventure the audience experiences a romantic entanglement, a unique monster, and a plot focusing on the dangers of one’s own hubris.
Alien: Earth [2025]
A Xenomorph and other monsters crash land on Earth, leading to corporate factions fighting over them (and a whole lot more) in Noah Hawley’s TV series, Alien: Earth.
One Battle After Another [2025]
Several forces vie for control of a young woman, mainly her father, in one of the year’s best films, Paul Thomas Anderson’s wildly entertaining One Battle After Another.
Interstellar (2014) [Science Fiction Month]
A father, and former NASA genius, takes to the stars in search of a new home planet for humanity, leaving behind his children and inadvertently finding out about the unbreakable bond that is love.
Haunted Hotel [2025]
A family tries to run a failing haunted hotel in Matt Roller’s hilarious adult animated horror-comedy Haunted Hotel, streaming on Netflix.