TheArchive: Reviewing the Rare, Retro, and Restored

Every year on July 2, believers, skeptics, experiencers, stargazers, sci-fi fans, and conspiracy theorists alike celebrate World UFO Day: a day dedicated to looking up, asking questions, and asking people to consider that we may not be alone. The date commemorates the long history of UFO fascination, from the “flying saucer” reports of the 1940s to the modern conversation around UAPs, or Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena. For decades, UFOs were treated mostly as the stuff of late-night radio, grainy footage, and sketchy tabloid headlines. But in recent years, the subject has moved out of the shadows and into official government reports and congressional hearings , scientific debate, and national security discussions. What was dismissed as fringe has become a mystery that sits right at the intersection of science, defense, folklore, and imagination. Today, the U.S. government refers to many of these sightings as UAPs rather than UFOs, a rebrand that reflects a broader attempt to study u...

Every June, Pride Month invites us to celebrate the LGBTQ+ community in all its joy and complexity. What began as a movement rooted in protest has grown into a global celebration of identity, chosen family, and the ongoing fight for equality. Pride is a time to honor the trailblazers who pushed culture forward, the artists who never made themselves smaller.  Film has always played an important role in that visibility. Queer cinema gives audiences more than representation; it offers connection and perspective. From romantic comedies to biographical dramas, LGBTQ+ stories help expand the screen into a place where more people can recognize themselves. This Pride Month, we’re highlighting two titles that explore queer identity from very different angles: Alto and Liberace: Behind the Music . In Alto , Francesca “Frankie” Del Vecchio is headstrong, passionate, and caught between love, family, and identity. This LGBTQ+ romantic comedy blends cultural pride, family expectations, and an...

This summer, science fiction is looking up again. With Steven Spielberg’s Disclosure Day (starring Emily Blunt) arriving in theaters, audiences are once again being invited to ask one of the genre’s oldest questions: what if we are not alone? It is a question Spielberg has returned to throughout his career, from the wide-eyed wonder of Close Encounters of the Third Kind to the suburban magic of E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial and the darker futuristic paranoia of Minority Report . His best sci-fi stories are about awe, fear, communication, and the human tendency to believe that there is something bigger happening in the cosmos.  That is what makes “disclosure” such a perfect sci-fi subject. The idea of a hidden truth finally being revealed taps into our collective fascination with government secrets, extraterrestrial encounters, alternate timelines, and futures we may not be ready to face. Sci-fi gives us a safe, spectacular way to imagine: first contact, time travel, dystopian syst...