Subgenre Sampler
Rental > Science Fiction: 1535 Films to Rent
- Dark City (1998)
- Dir. Alex Proyas
Feat. Rufus Sewell, William Hurt, Jennifer Connelly…
- Advancing on earlier efforts like THE CROW, director Alex Proyas, fabricates a shadowy urban jungle, replete with echoes of earlier sci–fi…
- Deep Impact (1998)
- Dir. Mimi Leder
Feat. Robert Duvall, Tea Leoni, Morgan Freeman…
- Contrasting the gung–ho cartoonery of the other meteor–disaster–pic, ARMAGEDDON, this chooses to show the 'human side' of an…
- Existenz (1998)
- Dir. David Cronenberg
Feat. Jennifer Jason Leigh, Jude Law, Ian Holm…
- Dir. David Cronenberg bestows his customary intelligence on the 'Virtual Reality' genre, yet this time complements his visceral obsessions and mad…
- From the Earth to the Moon (TV Series) (1998)
- Feat. Dylan Baker, Adam Baldwin, Gary Cole…
- Truly epic dramatisation of the Apollo space programme – produced by Tom Hanks after the success of APOLLO 13 – which looks at the entire…
- Godzilla (1998)
- Dir. Roland Emmerich
Feat. Matthew Broderick, Jean Reno
- This box–office behemoth from the INDEPENDENCE DAY–makers is not nearly as terrible as the backlash would have you believe – in…
- Last Night (1998)
- Dir. Don McKellar
Feat. Don McKellar, Callum Keith Rennie, Sandra Oh…
- Ingeniously crafted drama from actor Don McKellar, who stars here too, as one of six people spending the last six hours before the end of the world…
- Lost in Space (1998)
- Dir. Stephen Hopkins
Feat. William Hurt, Matt LeBlanc, Gary Oldman…
- Warning! Warning! This ill–conceived big screen adaptation of a tele–series starts bad and does not get better, in fact, it's worth…
- Postman, The (1998)
- Dir. Kevin Costner
Feat. Kevin Costner, Will Patton, Larenz Tate…
- The postie, Kevin Costner, delivers another clutch of post–apocalyptic improbabilities a la WATERWORLD. Again playing Man From Nowhere, here he…
- Serial Experiments Lain (TV Series) (1998)
- Dir. Various
- A uniquely thoughtful Manga TV–Series concerning an introspective teenage girl who starts receiving emails from a deceased classmate and is…
- Six-String Samurai (1998)
- Dir. Lance Mungia
- Armed with an excellent grasp of all the genres it cheekily adopts, this indie concerns the journey of its Buddy Holly–lookalike hero across a…