Con Pederson, one of four special effects supervisors on “2001: A Space Odyssey,” died Friday at the MPTF residence in Woodland Hills following complications from Alzheimer’s. He was 91. Pederson was ...

Johann Strauss II’s waltz titled “The Blue Danube” opens Stanley Kubrick’s space station scene in 1968’s epic film “2001: A Space Odyssey.” The fabulous triple meter’s simplicity ...

Con Pederson, the CGI pioneer who spent two and a half years alongside Douglas Trumbull creating the dazzling Oscar-winning visual effects for the Stanley Kubrick masterwork 2001: A Space Odyssey, has ...

My epic journey to the remote Scottish island that looks like the Maldives - The Isle of Harris in the Outer Hebrides is an ...

We asked our readers to name their favourite films in the sci-fi genre – and these were the titles that came up most often.

As anyone who has seen the Avatar movies can tell you, James Cameron doesn’t just make movies. He builds entire worlds with technical ambition and emotional storytelling. In a recent interview with ...

He and Douglas Trumbull went from creating a short film for the 1964 World’s Fair to working many exacting months on the Stanley Kubrick classic: The film "absolutely would not have happened without ...

How space dogfighting games evolved from vector lines to virtual cockpits.

Ahead of the launch of Artemis II, the first crewed mission to the moon in more than 50 years, astronauts share the movies that capture the danger, teamwork, and wonder of spaceflight. Their picks ...