It is 2025, and we are making the necessary steps to colonize Mars. That is the set-up to Red Planet, a sci-fi movie that is now 25 years old and manages to feel lightly optimistic, despite being ...

Carrie-Anne Moss in Red Planet (2000) - Warner Bros. It's been a good few decades for fans of sci-fi movies that approach space travel from an at least somewhat realistic perspective. There've been ...

In the year 2000, there were two major sci-fi movies about the planet Mars in theaters. Neither did well, and neither is well remembered today. The first was Brian De Palma’s Mission to Mars, a kind ...

Another Mars movie, Red Planet (starring Val Kilmer and Carrie-Anne Moss), came out the same year and similarly borrowed from 2001, with a HAL-inspired killer robot that was more reminiscent of Hector ...