His new alien thriller has shades of “Close Encounters of the Third Kind,” “Minority Report,” even “The Post”—but the ...

Sci-fi, at its core, is social commentary. And it’s not reserved for nerds or dorks or Star Wars fans as one might imagine.

Like ‘E.T.’ and ‘Close Encounters’ ‘Disclosure Day’ finds the director imagining compassion between earthlings and aliens.