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2020s
Project Hail Mary
⚡ Byte-Sized Overview: Science teacher Ryland Grace wakes aboard a spacecraft with two dead crewmates, no memory and absolutely no recollection of…
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2020s
The Tomorrow War
⚡ Byte-Sized Overview: When time travelers from 2051 interrupt the World Cup (rude) to announce that humanity is about to be wiped…
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2010s
Cowboys & Aliens
⚡ Byte-Sized Overview: A mysterious stranger with a hi-tech wrist weapon wanders into a dusty frontier town with no memory and one…
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1980s
The Abyss
⚡ Byte-Sized Overview: When a nuclear sub sinks near the Cayman Trough, a civilian diving crew teams up with the military to…
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1950s
The Day the Earth Stood Still
⚡ Byte-Sized Overview: An alien lands in Washington D.C. with a robot and a message for mankind: stop your warlike nonsense or…
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1970s
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
⚡ Byte-Sized Overview Strange lights in the sky. Missing people. A dad obsessed with mashed potatoes. Spielberg’s UFO epic turns alien contact…
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2010s
Oblivion
⚡ Byte-Sized Overview: A drone repairman on a post-apocalyptic Earth starts questioning everything he knows — including his mission, his memories, and…
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2010s
Live Die Repeat: Edge of Tomorrow
⚡ Byte-Sized Overview: A PR officer with zero combat skills gets stuck in a time loop, reliving Earth’s final battle against an…
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2010s
Arrival
⚡ Byte-Sized Overview: Aliens land, a linguist decodes their circular squiggles, and humanity learns that language can rewrite your brain—and maybe even…
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1990s
Contact
⚡ Byte-Sized Overview A scientist hears alien radio, builds a space machine, and maybe meets an alien that looks like her dad.…
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1970s
Star Trek: The Motion Picture
⚡ Byte-Sized Overview: The Enterprise gets a glow-up, Kirk takes back the captain’s chair, and everyone stares at a giant space cloud…
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