Europa Report‘s plot synopsis: “EUROPA REPORT follows a contemporary mission to Jupiter’s moon Europa to investigate the possible existence of alien life within our solar system. When unmanned probes ...

From “The Blair Witch Project” to the “Paranormal Activity” franchise, the found-footage theme has been both wildly successful and widely replicated in horror films. Director Sebastian Cordero puts a ...

Most science-fiction thrillers favor fiction over science, but the faux-documentary “Europa Report” does its best to stay true to the sci in sci-fi. First conceptualized in 2009, the film takes its ...

What if our first contact with extraterrestrial life – an event of immense scientific, philosophical and even theological importance – doesn’t go well? It’s one of the most venerable themes in the ...

"All these worlds are yours, except Europa. Attempt no landing there." There is a sci-fi film playing now that's one of the best in a long time. Similar to the upcoming Gravity, it's a film that might ...

A decade ago, audiences were treated to an adventure into the far reaches of our solar system. Six astronauts board a state of the art spacecraft on an exploratory mission to Jupiter’s moon Europa, in ...

“Europa Report” gets off to a strong start, inhabiting the glory and growing unease of exploring the unseen and unknown. It then dissolves into a simplistic thriller, jettisoning a great deal of the ...

IT’S BEEN A long time since I’ve seen a science fiction film based on actual science, but interest in films such as “Gravity” might be changing that. “Most science fiction films stray towards the ...

At the end of 2015, Congress gave NASA a big directive: develop a spacecraft that can land on Jupiter’s moon Europa — an icy world that is thought to harbor a saltwater ocean underneath its surface.

Despite a cool premise and the even cooler Sharlto Copley, Europa Report is more often than not a chore to sit through. A unique blend of documentary, alternative history and science fiction thriller, ...

With echoes of 2001, Stanley Kubrick’s masterpiece, Europa Report is riveting low-budget hard science fiction—i.e., emphasizing the science rather than the speculative. Director Sebastian Cordero’s ...