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 ...

As the calendar turned from 1999 to 2000 and the new millennium dawned, we as a society developed a bit of an obsession with Mars. That obsession resulted in several large-scale movies about the ...

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 ...

Blue Planet Red purports to be a documentary about Mars. The world presented by director Brian Cory Dobbs isn’t the one you and I might recognise, but it certainly has some appeal: it was home to an ...