Star Trek and Star Wars are the titans of sci-fi space-faring franchises, going on for decades with no end in sight. And both franchises, as vastly different from each other as they are, have inspired ...

Whether doing more meditative, inward-facing work like Pain and Glory or plying his more familiar trade of melodrama, Pedro Almodóvar’s playful, questing, mode of filmmaking never feels unwelcome. His ...