Why Steven Spielberg doesn’t consider Disclosure Day to be science fiction

A moment early on in Disclosure Day will instinctively feel familiar to anyone who grew up with Steven Spielberg films.

A TV weather report predicts hail.

The camera pans downward, from television set to kitchen table.

Plinking sounds begin.

Cereal falls into a bowl.
“Those were Froot Loops,” Spielberg says, smiling. “My favourite.”
Spielberg’s latest film, like some of his earliest and most beloved, again concerns what might fall from above.

Disclosure Day, now showing at cinemas, returns...