From musicals like Bohemian Rhapsody to explosive action in Mission: Impossible, to family-friendly laughs with ...

We don't often get high quality popcorn flicks these days — movies that are not just pure entertainment, but that are also extremely well-made, particularly in the post-COVID era. Only a handful of ...

The two men rehearsed each scene before bringing out the puppet so they could get the blocking nailed down. “That would be our one chance to check in with each other, see each other’s eyes, and sort ...

Perhaps the reason Project Hail Mary hits the spot in the spring of 2026 is that novelist Andy Weir, who wrote the 2021 novel and also the book The Martian, is fundamentally an optimist. Both stories ...

Kendra Pierre-Louis: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Kendra Pierre-Louis, in for Rachel Feltman. [CLIP: The spaceship Hail Mary’s operating system (played by Priya Kansara) speaks in ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

Ryan Gosling’s newest costar is high-maintenance, had an entourage around him at all times and required his own wardrobe department on set. He’s also a space alien. “He is in the hotel right now in ...

The majority of “Project Hail Mary” takes place in outer space in the near future, but like many message-driven science fiction films, it’s really about the here and now on Earth. Based on the 2011 ...

It would be easy to dismiss Project Hail Mary as an amalgamation of movies set in space that we have seen over the decades. First and foremost has to be 2015’s The Martian, which presented Matt Damon ...