There are certain advantages to being a cartoon. You only have to own one set of clothes, or none at all. You can fall from the highest buildings and smash through billboards, leaving you-shaped ho...

Let's be honest: The five-tone phrase sounds like a first-generation ringtone. You'd think galaxy-hopping aliens would have invented technology sufficient enough to communicate by way of Misirlou,...

There was a time, not so long ago, when people had to read paper maps to figure out where to go, rather than let the map tell them what to do. Don't worry, we're not going to get all nostalgic on y...

Mysterious WaysMore than one critic has written that Close Encounters is a seriously religious film rather than a deeply humanist one. (Source) The aliens are the stand-in for gods or God, and Roy...

Close Encounters is a movie brimming with mystery, but the most puzzling question must be: Why did the extraterrestrials choose to meet in a Wyoming state park? No offense to Wyoming, but...Wyoming...

Close Encounters was released a few years after the Watergate scandal, a series of political scandals that resulted in the impeachment and resignation of President Richard Nixon in 1973. One of the...