With 'Disclosure Day,' the director returns to a longtime preoccupation. Two Times staffers explore his ongoing fascination with extraterrestrials.

Otherworldly aliens are as important to the "Star Wars" saga as a rousing score or elaborate outer space fights between cool spaceships. From the very first entry in this narrative, "Star Wars" has ...

Space fantasy is a much-loved but under-recognised sub-genre. Space fantasy combines tropes and elements from both science fiction and fantasy, withStar Warsbeing the most famous and popular example.