Subgenre Sampler
Science Fiction: 1577 Films to Buy & Rent
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…
Soldier (1998)
- Dir. Paul Anderson
Feat. Kurt Russell, Gary Busey, Jason Scott Lee
- Military sci–fi adventure wherein Kurt Russell utters terse words as an out–moded fighting machine grasping at a few straws of humanity…
Sphere (1998)
- Dir. Barry Levinson
Feat. Sharon Stone, Dustin Hoffman, Samuel L. Jackson
- Back in the ocean depths, a 300yr–old alien spacecraft lies silently waiting for the team to investigate. Michael Crichton's story unavoidably…
Trigun (TV Series) (1998)
- The $60,000,000,000 Man – Vash the Stampede is a wanted man with a habit of turning entire towns into rubble. The price on his head is a…