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.
Earth vs the Flying Saucers (Blu-ray) (1956)
6.4/10
Director: Fred F Sears
Starring: Hugh Marlowe, Joan Taylor, Donald Curtis
A B film elevated to near classic status with stunning special effects by Ray Harryhausen. After misinterpreting a message for peace from the initiall... Read more
Men in Black II (Blu-ray) (2002)
6.2/10
Director: Barry Sonnenfeld
Starring: Will Smith, Tommy Lee Jones, Lara Flynn Boyle, Rip Torn, Johnny Knoxville, Rosar...
The black-suited, shades-wearing dynamic duo of Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones are back for more intergalactic fun in this hit sequel. With the Earth'... Read more
Fantastic Four (Blu-ray) (2015)
5.6/10
Director: Josh Trank
Starring: Miles Teller, Michael B Jordan, Kate Mara, Jamie Bell, Toby Kebbell, Reg E Cathe...
As a brilliant teen in 2007, Reed Richards (Miles Teller) works to perfect a teleportation device that could revolutionize science, finding help from... Read more
Geostorm (2017)
5.3/10
Starring: Gerard Butler
When the network of satellites designed to control the global climate starts to attack Earth, it's a race against the clock for its creator to uncover... Read more
Gorgo (1961)
5.7/10
Director: Eugene Lourie
Starring: Bill Travers, William Sylvester, Vincent Winter
Greedy sailors capture a giant lizard off the coast of Ireland and sell it to a London circus. Then its mother shows up. Read more
Singularity (2017)
3.8/10
Starring: John Cusack
Earth 2020, 3/4 of it's households have a robot. The AI supercomputer, Kronos, considers humans the biggest threat to Earth. A century later, few huma... Read more
Higher Power (2018)
4.8/10
Starring: Ron Eldard, Colm Feore, Austin Stowell, Richard Portnow
When the Universe decides what it wants, it's pointless to resist. With his family's life at stake, Joseph Steadman finds himself the unwilling test s... Read more
Freaks of Nature (2015)
5.9/10
Director: Robbie Pickering
Starring: Mackenzie Davis, Denis Leary, Ed Westwick, Vanessa Hudgens, Keegan-Michael Key,...
In the town of Dillford, humans, vampires and zombies were all living in peace - until the alien apocalypse arrived. Now three teenagers - one human,... Read more
A Thousand Kisses Deep (2011)
5/10
Starring: Jodie Whittaker, Dougray Scott, Emilia Fox, David Warner, Allan Corduner
Returning home from work, Mia witnesses an aged woman leap from a window. Scattered around the old woman's broken, lifeless body Mia discovers shredde... Read more
Godzilla ( Blu-ray ) (3D) (2014)
6.4/10
Director: Gareth Edwards
Starring: David Strathairn, Juliette Binoche, Ken Watanabe, Sally Hawkins, Bryan Cranston,...
From the director of Monsters, Godzilla is back after a ten year break, just in time to mark the 60th anniversary in the Godzilla universe. The world'... Read more