It is 2025, and we are making the necessary steps to colonize Mars. That is the set-up to Red Planet, a sci-fi movie that is now 25 years old and manages to feel lightly optimistic, despite being ...
The Martian proved that Andy Weir's sci-fi novels were ripe for Hollywood adaptations, but he thinks a handful of flops ...
In the year 2000, there were two major sci-fi movies about the planet Mars in theaters. Neither did well, and neither is well remembered today. The first was Brian De Palma’s Mission to Mars, a kind ...
A favourite of directors including Steven Spielberg and Martin Scorsese, the 1953 version of Invaders from Mars frightened a generation with its vision of Martian mind-controllers arriving on Earth.