In Beams, Mitchell Crawford blends experimental animation with stories of alien encounters. The narrators are never seen, and the images don’t always reflect their words, but somehow that makes these ...

Kicking things off, we’ve chosen a baseline for these opening encounters. Steven Spielberg’s Close Encounters of the Third Kind represents how most people hope a real-life alien encounter will go down ...

Melody MacReady is a writer and transwoman (she/her), passionate about all things pop culture-related. From movies to shows to games to comic books, there is not much that she does not enjoy or ...