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Sci-Fi
Wrong, Actually: 3 Time-Travel Problems in Richard Curtis’s About Time
There’s a lot Richard Curtis gets right in his new movie. But as sci-fi fans might tell you, there’s some things he gets wrong too
Total Recall Director Talks Remakes, Relevance and Real-Life Paranoia
“Of course the three-breasted woman is something that stayed with me”
Prometheus Star Michael Fassbender on His Robotic Role and Why He Believes in Aliens
Michael Fassbender has had a busy couple of years. In 2011 alone, he played everything from a sex addict in Shame and Carl Jung in A Dangerous Method to X-Men’s Magneto and Jane Eyre’s Rochester. And now he’s adding a new kind of …
Nazis on the Moon: Iron Sky and the Crowdsourced Film
I love a good sci-fi movie. But these days, most of them are are like the Mets: tons of promise followed by complete disappointment.
1950s Sci-Fi Movies
Cold War fears made the 1950s a golden era for paranoid science-fiction flicks. TIME looks back at the decade’s best outer-space and nuclear-monster movies.