You’ll have to construct your own Devils Tower out of mashed potatoes (or garden dirt, depending on how much room you’ve got), but an authentic Close Encounters of the Third Kind alien mask is ...

In Steven Spielberg’s “Close Encounters of the Third Kind,” an ordinary electrician has a transcendent encounter—with U.F.O.s, not God.

Sharafian: The musicality and the way the Communiverse first contacts Elio is totally an homage to “Close Encounters of the Third Kind.” We reference that movie a lot because it’s also about ...