Science Fiction
Science fiction as a genre of film making has been an element of the cinema experience since the earliest days of the motion picture industry. These films have explored a great range of unique topics, including many that cannot be readily presented in other genre. Science fiction films have been used to explore sensitive social and political issues, while often providing an entertaining story for the more casual viewer. Today, science fiction films are in the forefront of new special effects technology, and the audience has become accustomed to displays of realistic aliens, space battles, energy weapons, faster than light travel, and distant worlds.
This genre has produced many memorable films, as well as a number that can be considered mediocre or even among the worst examples of film production. It took many decades, and the efforts of talented teams of film producers, for the science fiction film genre to be taken seriously as an art form by many critics. The very best of these films may be scrolled below, or for Sci-Fi TV Series, select the green 'Televison Shows' heading on left, and then the 'TV Sci-Fi' option.
Metropolis (Restored) (1927)
8.3/10
Director: Fritz Lang
Starring: Gustav Frohlich, Rudolf Klein-Rogge, Brigitte Helm, Alfred Abel
Perhaps the most famous and influential of all silent films, 'Metropolis' had for 75 years been seen only in shortened or truncated versions. Now, res... Read more
The Matrix Resurrections (4K) (2021)
5.7/10
Director: Lana Wachowski
Return to a world of two realities: one, everyday life; the other, what lies behind it. To find out if his reality is a construct, to truly know himse... Read more
Jurassic World: Dominion (4K Ultra HD) (2022)
5.7/10
Director: Colin Trevorrow
Starring: B D Wong, Jeff Goldblum, Bryce Dallas Howard, Chris Pratt, Justice Smith, Sam Ne...
Four years after the destruction of Isla Nublar, Biosyn operatives attempt to track down Maisie Lockwood, while Dr Ellie Sattler investigates a geneti... Read more
The Killer Shrews (1959)
3.9/10
Director: Ray Kellogg
Starring: James Best
No, it's not Shakespeare's long-missing sequel! It's the hilariously bad monster movie about a horde of outsized man-eating rodents that run amok on a... Read more
This Giant Papier-Mâché Boulder Is Actually Really Heavy (2016)
7.6/10
Director: Christian Nicolson
Starring: Christian Nicolson, Sez Niederer, Lewis Roscoe, Daniel Pujol, Joseph Wycoff
Three ordinary guys are thrust into a parallel world of an old Sci-Fi movie. Trapped in a low budget universe they must somehow fight their way home b... Read more
Life (Blu-ray) (2017)
6.6/10
Director: Daniel Espinosa
Starring: Jake Gyllenhaal, Hiroyuki Sanada, Ryan Reynolds, Olga Dihovichnaya, Ariyon Bakar...
Astronauts (Jake Gyllenhaal, Rebecca Ferguson, Ryan Reynolds) aboard the International Space Station are on the cutting edge of one of the most import... Read more
Total Recall (Blu-ray) (2012)
7.5/10
Director: Len Wiseman
Starring: Jessica Biel, Kate Beckinsale, Bill Nighy, Colin Farrell, John Cho, Bryan Cranst...
Slick reimagining of the Philip K. Dick tale, set on a future Earth dominated by two political superpowers in which factory worker Douglas Quaid (Coli... Read more
Independence Day: Resurgence (Blu-ray) (2016)
5.2/10
Director: Roland Emmerich
Starring: Bill Pullman, Brent Spiner, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Jeff Goldblum, Judd Hirsch, Se...
Twenty years after the alien attack in 1996, the Earth has recovered and the United Nations created the Earth Space Defense [ESD], a united global def... Read more
The Invisible Man's Revenge (1944)
5.8/10
Director: Ford Beebe
Starring: Evelyn Ankers, John Carradine, Jon Hall, Leon Errol, Alan Curtis
An eager scientist tests his new formula for invisibility on an escaped fugitive. When the formula works the criminal runs off to terrorize a family h... Read more
Captain America ( TV ) (1979)
3.3/10
Director: Rod Holcomb
Starring: Reb Brown, Len Birman
When a commercial artist is almost murdered by spies looking for his late father's secrets, he is saved in surgery when the FLAG formula is injected i... Read more