On March 10, 2000, Disney's big-budget sci-fi film Mission to Mars premiered in theaters, with the movie studio hoping for a super successful blockbuster. Unfortunately, the movie ...

Hollywood has never been known for its strict adherence to science. In most blockbusters the laws of physics are treated more like polite suggestions than hard rules. Need I mention “Armageddon”? I ...

Tim Burton's satire Mars Attacks! arrived in 1996 in a crowded sci-fi market. In 1996 alone, audiences were bombarded with blockbuster, action-oriented invasion flicks like Independence Day and ...

But Mars Express belongs in the same breath as those films, not because it vibes hard with them, but because it delivers something startlingly novel and fully realized that every sci-fi work should be ...