While the Sagan references in Elio primarily concern the search for alien life across space, the references in The Life of Chuck center on time. Specifically, the minuscule amount of time humanity's ...

The obligation to reach everyone, the imperative to take risks but less, limits the scope and brilliance of a film as ...

Pixar trades soul-searching for star-seeking in its most whimsical — and least self-serious — original cartoon in over a decade.

Over the soundtrack, Carl Sagan says that we have finally reached the point where communication with extraterrestrials could become a reality, and this interstellar message-in-a-bottle would be ...

The new Pixar animated film “Elio” takes up a question famously posed by astrophysicist Carl Sagan: “Are we alone?” It’s in reference to the search for extraterrestrial life, but the ...

Warning: This article contains spoilers for Pixar's Elio. Elio has finally beamed into theaters. ... we hear Carl Sagan discussing the search for extraterrestrial life.

circles around to a poignant quotation from Carl Sagan best discovered in context. Directed by Madeline Sharafian (the Pixar short "Burrow"), Domee Shi ("Turning Red") and Adrian Molina ("Coco"), ...

Elio also isn’t nearly as funny or whimsical as you would expect from a Pixar movie set in space. There’s some humor that definitely lands, like when the film becomes a horror parody. However ...

Astronomer Carl Sagan's work is key to two movies in theaters: Pixar's "Elio" and Mike Flanagan's "The Life of Chuck." ...

Carl Sagan wrote in his 1973 book, “The Cosmic Connection.” Yet more than half of Americans believe that aliens exist. A third think they’ve already come to visit.