Cinemastix is a Youtube channel of film criticism essays that I find thought provoking. With Spielberg’s latest film Disclosure Day, the channel took a look at his previous alien films.

How do the protagonists of these films align themselves thematically? It’s fascinating to see that Close Encounters, ET, and War of the Worlds approach their themes in three distinct ways.

See “How they SECRETLY made a perfect movie trilogy across 40 years and no one realized” below