This month’s recommendations include a dreamscape space opera, a dark time-travel diner comedy and an existential alien thriller.

A sub-genre of science fiction, space operas focus on epic adventures set in outer space with similarities to legends of chivalry and mythology. Emerging in the 1960s, the popularity of space operas ...

Obsession is maybe too hard-edged; interest too soft. But from “Close Encounters of the Third Kind” and “E.T” to his new sci-fi thriller “Disclosure Day,” Steven Spielberg has spent nearly the entire ...