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.
Flash Gordon Conquers The Universe - All 12 Chapters (1940)
Starring: Larry 'Buster' Crabbe, Carol Hughes, Anne Gwynne, Charles Middleton
Contains the original 12 episodes of the sci-fi action serial based on the Alex Raymond comic strip, starring Buster Crabbe as the heroic Flash trying... Read more
The Day the Earth Stood Still ( Blu-ray ) (2008)
5.5/10
Director: Scott Derrickson
Starring: James Hong, Jennifer Connelly, John Cleese, Kathy Bates, Keanu Reeves, Jon Hamm,...
Keanu Reeves is apparently well-cast in the role of an emotionally bereft and expressionless alien from another planet in this remake of the 1951 clas... Read more
Power Rangers (2017)
6/10
Director: Dean Israelite
Starring: Ludi Lin, Bill Hader, Elizabeth Banks, Bryan Cranston, Dacre Montgomery, RJ Cyle...
Saban's "Power Rangers" follows five ordinary teens who must become something extraordinary when they learn that their small town of Angel Grove - and... Read more
Devil's Gate (2017)
5.1/10
Director: Clay Staub
Starring: Jonathan Frakes, Amanda Schull, Shawn Ashmore, Milo Ventimiglia
When a woman and her son mysteriously vanish, FBI agent Daria Francis is dispatched to the small town of Devil's Gate, N.D., to investigate the primar... Read more
The Darkest Minds (2018)
5.5/10
Director: Jennifer Yuh Nelson
Starring: Bradley Whitford, Mandy Moore, Wade Williams, Gwendoline Christie, Amandla Stenb...
When teens mysteriously develop powerful new abilities, they are declared a threat by the government and detained. One of the most powerful young peop... Read more
War for the Planet of the Apes (Blu-ray) (2017)
7.5/10
Director: Matt Reeves
Starring: Steve Zahn, Woody Harrelson, Andy Serkis, Judy Greer, Toby Kebbell, Terry Notary
Caesar (Andy Serkis) and his apes are forced into a deadly conflict with an army of humans led by a ruthless colonel (Woody Harrelson). After the apes... Read more
The Blackout: Invasion Earth (2019)
6.1/10
Starring: Pyotr Fyodorov
Life on Earth is rapidly destroyed except for a small area in Eastern Europe. Read more
Black Widow (Blu-ray) (2021)
6.7/10
Director: Cate Shortland
Starring: Scarlett Johansson, Florence Pugh, Rachel Weisz, David Harbour, Ray Winstone, Wi...
Natasha Romanoff confronts the darker parts of her ledger when a dangerous conspiracy with ties to her past arises. Read more
Jurassic World: Dominion (Blu-ray) (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 Fifth Element (1997)
7.7/10
Director: Luc Besson
Starring: Bruce Willis, Gary Oldman, Milla Jovovich, Ian Holm, Chris Tucker
A dazzling, imaginative tale set in the 23rd century where a cabbie (Bruce Willis) finds himself involved with a strange woman (Milla Jovovich) who mi... Read more