Disney Pixar ’s latest animated feature, “Elio” centers on a young orphan boy who is desperate to be abducted by aliens.

Flying Lotus, who wrote and directed the movie, mixes a small-scale sci-fi drama with bursts of intense, sometimes unsettling scenes. The result is less a conventional story and more a mood piece that ...

As well as being essential for preserving pop culture history as we know it (imagine a world without Marty McFly, Doc Brown, ...