Great sci-fi movies have even greater opening hooks that grip viewers from the beginning itself. However, even among the movies with some of the best opening sequences, there is one that easily ranks ...

In April of 1968, Stanley Kubrick’s “2001: A Space Odyssey” premiered in the United States. Now, on the 50th anniversary of the film’s release, Michael Benson provides the definitive account of how ...

For context, it’s helpful to know that Trumbull was a groundbreaking effects artist whose striking short film, To the Moon and Beyond, shown at the 1964 World’s Fair, caught Kubrick’s attention and ...