When “2001: A Space Odyssey” premiered, its early audiences didn’t see the future. They saw red. The film was shown on April 3, 1968, at Times Square’s Loews Capitol Theater for an invited ...

Near the beginning of Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey, a big black monolith appears in an African desert, leaving a group of prehistoric ape-men standing there baffled.And that was pretty ...

This week marks the 50th Anniversary of Stanley Kubrick's 2001, A Space Odyssey. As NPR critic Bob Mondello looks back he says the film made screen sci-fi respectable.