“Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets” is filmmaker Luc Besson’s wild imagination brought to life. The film’s primary set piece is the thing in the title that’s not Valerian, and ...

Twenty years after The Fifth Element, director Luc Besson returns to sci-fi cinema with the vibrant, imaginative, but wildly uneven Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets. Valerian's romantic ...

A Star Wars nerd dives into the Valérian and Laureline comics to discuss just how influential the French series may have been on the Star Wars saga. If you’re a Luc Besson fan, you’ve likely ...

Dane DeHaan and Cara Delevingne in "Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets." If you’re going to call your sci-fi movie “Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets,” you’d better be ...

On the 20th anniversary of space opera "The Fifth Element," it's become clear how much it shares with Besson's latest passion project, "Valerian." Luc Besson was born to make “Valerian and the ...

But that’s essentially what filmmaker Luc Besson has done with Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets, which is based on an old French comic book (so not 100% original, but how many ...

Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets is a case study in what to avoid when trying to establish a sci-fi universe. At first glance, the comic-inspired sci-fi action flick from Lucy director ...