Scientist and playwright Margaret Cavendish’s The Blazing World, published in 1666, marked the first science fiction work by a female. It chronicled a wom...

Carlson Young plays a young woman who enters an alternate universe in her directorial debut, also featuring Udo Kier, Dermot Mulroney and Vinessa Shaw.

Carlson Young's debut offers eye-popping visuals on an indie-sized budget, but that can't mask a struggle to deliver emotion.

Although the film’s many influences stand out, it doesn’t quite come together as a singular vision, and the film’s numerous missteps break its spell. 

On three more films from this year's NEXT program at the Sundance Film Festival. 

Writer-director-star Carlson Young pours much effort and feeling into this loose riff on a 17th-century sci-fi text, but who is it for?