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.
I-Man (1986)
Director: Corey Allen
Starring: Scott Bakula, Joey Cramer
'I', in this instance, stands for 'Indestructible'. Thus, star Scott Bakula is actually the Indestructible Man. Formerly a cab driver, Bakula becomes... Read more
Star Trek V: The Final Frontier ( Blu-ray ) (1989)
5.4/10
Director: William Shatner
Starring: David Warner, DeForest Kelley, George Takei, James Doohan, Leonard Nimoy, Willia...
Admiral Kirk, Mr Spock and Scotty mark this adventure, where man has never gone before, about Spock's renegade half-brother who has plans to hijack th... Read more
The Amazing Transparent Man (1960)
3.8/10
Director: Edgar G Ulmer
Starring: Douglas Kennedy, Marguerite Chapman, James Griffith
This sci-fi schlocko concerns a crazed scientist who, hoping to create the perfect henchman, renders a crook invisible. Unfotunately, the unseen under... Read more
Gas-s-s-s (1970)
Director: Roger Corman
Starring: Bud Cort, Cindy Williams, Robert Corff, Ben Vereen
Aka: "Gas! or: It Became Necessary to Destroy The World in Order to Save it". Odd hippy stuff about a gas that kills everyone on Earth over 25 years o... Read more
Hollow Man ( Blu-ray ) (2000)
5.7/10
Director: Paul Verhoeven
Starring: Kevin Bacon, Josh Brolin, William Devane, Elisabeth Shue, Kim Dickens
Paul Verhoeven's nasty, high-tech variation on "The Invisible Man" stars Kevin Bacon as a self-absorbed scientist working on a government invisibility... Read more
Upgrade (2018)
7.6/10
Director: Leigh Whannell
Starring: Melanie Vallejo, Harrison Gilbertson, Logan Marshall-Green, Betty Gabriel
A brutal mugging leaves Grey Trace paralyzed in the hospital and his beloved wife dead. A billionaire inventor soon offers Trace a cure -- an artifici... Read more
Sky Sharks (2020)
3.9/10
Starring: Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, Tony Todd
"Deep in the ice of the antarctic, a team of geologists uncover an old nazi laboratory still intact where dark experiments had occured. In order to co... Read more
Interstellar (4K) (2014)
8.6/10
Director: Christopher Nolan
Starring: Bill Irwin, Ellen Burstyn, John Lithgow, Matthew McConaughey, Michael Caine, Cas...
From director Christopher Nolan ("Inception") comes the story of a team of pioneers undertaking the most important mission in human history. Matthew M... Read more
Predestination (Blu-ray) (2014)
7.5/10
Director: The Spierig Brothers, Michael Spierig, Peter Spierig
Starring: Ethan Hawke, Noah Taylor, Sarah Snook
Ethan Hawke plays a temporal agent leaping back and forth through time to prevent the murder of thousands in a very Oroboros-type narrative. During on... Read more
Shazam!: Fury Of The Gods (2023)
7/10
Director: David F Sandberg
Starring: Zachary Levi, Mark Strong, Jack Dylan Grazer, Adam Brody, Djimon Hounsou, Meagan...
The film continues the story of teenage Billy Batson who, upon reciting the magic word "SHAZAM!" is transformed into his adult Super Hero alter ego, S... Read more