Volker Engel and Douglas Smith revisit the signature scene from Roland Emmerich's 1996 summer blockbuster.

"Live Free or Die Hard," "Independence Day" and other films take place against the backdrop of Fourth of July. Here's a list ...

Independence Day took over the summer of 1996 like the alien invasion it inflicted onto big screens around the world, ushering in a new era of suped-up, cinematic spectacle. But Will Smith, Jeff ...

Steven Spielberg and aliens is like cinematic peanut butter and jelly. His "Disclosure Day" is a thriller about a massive government alien cover-up.

Steven Spielberg's alien blockbuster Disclosure Day spends too much time focused on the wrong things.

His new alien thriller has shades of “Close Encounters of the Third Kind,” “Minority Report,” even “The Post”—but the retreads yield diminishing returns.

There’s dozens, maybe hundreds of movies where “America!” is the predominant theme—some reverent, some scathing, all of it worth watching. Whether you want refuge from the sun or you’re not an ...

Marketing can make or break a film, and in the case of Disclosure Day, I think it did more harm than good. The trailers promised something closer to Denis Villeneuve’s Arrival or even a full-scale ...

Spielberg returns to one of his favorite subjects with a fun and goofy popcorn movie that shows how far he's come in the last 50 years.