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Civil War (2024): Dir. Alex Garland
Feat. Kirsten Dunst, Wagner Moura, Stephen McKinley Henderson…; The most expensive film made by upstart studio A24, this urgent and chillingly relevant dystopian thriller represents a solid return to form for…
Dune: Part Two (Dune 2) (2024): Dir. Denis Villeneuve
Feat. Timothée Chalamet, Zendaya , Austin Butler…; The mythic journey of Paul Atreides continues as he unites with the indigenous Fremen while on a path of revenge against the conspirators who…
Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga (2024): Dir. George Miller
Feat. Anya Taylor-Joy, Chris Hemsworth, Tom Burke…; As civilization collapses and tyrannical brutes battle over dwindling natural resources; a young girl is snatched from her paradise, the mythical…
Avatar: The Way of Water (2023): Dir. James Cameron
Feat. Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldana, Sigourney Weaver…; Epic sequel to "Avatar" (2009) that follows a blue–skinned humanoid Na'vi (Sam Worthington) and his family who, under renewed human threat,…
Godzilla Minus One (2023): Dir. Takashi Yamazaki
Feat. Ryunosuke Kamiki, Sakura Ando; Hailed by some as the greatest Godzilla film since the monster's sombre genesis in 1954. As with the original, a wartime subtext and some genuinely…
Mars Express (2023): Dir. Jérémie Périn; A high–concept animated sci–fi from France that depicts an ultra–sleek 23rd Century future with far–out ideas that seems…
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (2023): Feat. Shameik Moore, Hailee Steinfeld, Jake Johnson…; The alternative Spider–man returns for the second part of this fresh 'multi–verse' saga. A rift between the spider–...'people'…
Batman, The (2022): Dir. Matt Reeves
Feat. Robert Pattinson, Andy Serkis, Colin Farrell…; Robert Pattinson is Bruce Wayne in this impressively dark and epic reboot of DC comics' iconic knight in shining latex.
Black Adam (2022): Dir. Jaume Collet-Serra
Feat. Dwayne Johnson, Aldis Hodge, Sarah Shahi…; Dwayne Johnson reteams with the director of “Jungle Cruise” for this action–adventure showcase for the DC Superhero. Nearly 5,000 years…
Crimes of the Future (2022): Dir. David Cronenberg
Feat. Viggo Mortensen, Léa Seydoux, Kristen Stewart…; Cult director David Cronenberg's latest sci–fi speculation comes littered with references to his weird and wonderful previous works (incl.…
Don't Worry Darling (2022): Dir. Olivia Wilde
Feat. Florence Pugh, Harry Styles, Chris Pine…; A 1950s housewife living with her husband in a utopian experimental community begins to worry that his company could be hiding disturbing secrets.
Jurassic World: Dominion (2022): Dir. Colin Trevorrow
Feat. Chris Pratt, Bryce Dallas Howard, Laura Dern…; This Jurassic franchise has finally gone full flintstones. Dinosaurs and Humans coexisting together all over the planet. Numerous homages to…
M3gan (Megan) (2022): Dir. Gerard Johnstone
Feat. Allison Williams, Violet McGraw, Ronny Chieng; The Hollywood debut of Gerard Johnstone, Kiwi director of the brilliant "Housebound", who here more than delivers a sci–fi horror…
Nope (2022): Dir. Jordan Peele
Feat. Daniel Kaluuya, Keke Palmer, Steven Yeun…; Writer–director Jordan Peele's subversive and enigmatic take on the sci–fi blockbuster in which the residents in a lonely gulch of inland…
Shin Ultraman (2022): Feat. Hidetoshi Nishijima, Takumi Saito, Masami Nagasawa; When the SSSP kaiju defence taskforce finds itself in the midst of a particularly ghastly kaiju encounter, a giant silver robot descends from the sky…
A Quiet Place Part II (A Quiet Place 2) (2021): Dir. John Krasinski
Feat. Emily Blunt, Cillian Murphy, Millicent Simmonds…; Highly anticipated sequel to the inventive horror movie A QUIET PLACE, about parents (played by director John Krasinksi and real–life spouse…
Black Widow (2021): Dir. Cate Shortland
Feat. Scarlett Johansson, Florence Pugh, David Harbour…; Scarlett Johansson's Black Widow gets deserved time in the spotlight in this belated, but very much welcomed, Marvel movie. Set before the events…
Chaos Walking (2021): Dir. Doug Liman
Feat. Daisy Ridley, Tom Holland, Mads Mikkelsen…; Doug Liman directs this young adult sci–fi film, based on the first book in the literary trilogy of the same name by Patrick Ness, who also…
Dune (2021): Dir. Denis Villeneuve
Feat. Timothée Chalamet, Rebecca Ferguson, Oscar Isaac…; Spellbinding first installment of the long–awaited two–part adaptation of Frank Herbert's epic science fiction novel Dune, from director…
Eternals (2021): Dir. Chloé Zhao
Feat. Gemma Chan, Richard Madden, Kumail Nanjiani…; Sprawling Marvel Cinematic Universe blockbuster, with director Chloé Zhao (NOMADLAND) bringing an enormous amount of humanity and maturity to the…
Everything Everywhere All At Once (2021): Dir. Daniel Scheinert, Dan Kwan
Feat. Michelle Yeoh, Ke Huy Quan, Jamie Lee Curtis…; Likely to be THE film of 2022, this dazzling, ingenious sci–fi comedy adventure epic throws in a million ideas and makes most of them stick.…
Finch (2021): Dir. Miguel Sapochnik
Feat. Tom Hanks, Caleb Landry Jones, Skeet Ulrich; One of the nicer post–apocalyptic movies out there, starring Tom Hanks as a survivor of a solar flare that has left the earth a scorched…
Free Guy (2021): Dir. Shawn Levy
Feat. Ryan Reynolds, Jodie Comer, Joe Keery…; Unabashedly sweet sci–fi comedy with Ryan Reynolds playing a clueless bank teller who discovers he is a non–player character in an open…
Godzilla vs. Kong (2021): Dir. Adam Wingard
Feat. Alexander Skarsgard, Millie Bobby Brown, Rebecca Hall…; Godzilla and King Kong battle it out in this latest chapter in Legendary's MonsterVerse, directed by horror stalwart Adam Wingard. With this…
I'm Your Man (2021): Dir. Maria Schrader
Feat. Dan Stevens; A fabulously entertaining high concept comedy from Germany about a skeptical scientist who agrees to a three week product test of a humanoid robot…
Matrix Resurrections, The (2021): Dir. Lana Wachowski
Feat. Keanu Reeves, Carrie-Anne Moss, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II…; Fourth installment in the beloved MATRIX film franchise, with Keanu Reeves and Carrie–Anne Moss returning along with much of the original cast,…
Old (2021): Dir. M. Night Shyamalan
Feat. Gael Garcia Bernal, Vicky Krieps, Rufus Sewell…; Thriller from director M. Night Shyamalan (THE SIXTH SENSE) about a family on vacation at a luxury resort who discover that the secluded beach…
Reminiscence (2021): Dir. Lisa Joy
Feat. Hugh Jackman, Rebecca Ferguson, Thandiwe Newton…; Hugh Jackman plays a private investigator of the mind in this sci–fi action thriller set in a near future world destroyed by climate…
Settlers (2021): Dir. Wyatt Rockefeller
Feat. Sofia Boutella, Ismael Cruz Córdova, Brooklynn Prince…; An isolated settlement on Mars becomes a fiercely contested battleground between families in this beautifully crafted and quietly devastating…
Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021): Dir. Jon Watts
Feat. Tom Holland, Zendaya , Benedict Cumberbatch…; Spider–Man adventure which acts as a sequel to both FAR FROM HOME (2019) and HOMECOMING (2017), and slots into the bloated Marvel Cinematic…
Archenemy (2020): Dir. Adam Egypt Mortimer
Feat. Joe Manganiello, Skylan Brooks, Zolee Griggs…; Kick ass superhero adventure from director Adam Egypt Mortimer (DANIEL ISN'T REAL), following a mysterious man called Max Fist who teams up with a…
Archive (2020): Dir. Gavin Rothery
Feat. Theo James, Stacy Martin, Rhona Mitra…; Sci–fi set in the year 2038, following a scientist working on an advanced, human–equivalent AI, while secretly harbouring a plan use it…
Bill and Ted Face the Music (2020): Dir. Dean Parisot
Feat. Keanu Reeves, Alex Winter, Kristen Schaal…; Time–traveling rock 'n' roll nerds Bill and Ted are back for another adventure, now as middle–aged dads. From the director of GALAXY…
Doctor Who (Series 12) [Jodie Whittaker] (2020): Feat. Jodie Whittaker, Bradley Walsh, Tosin Cole…; Jodie Whittaker returns for her second series as the Thirteenth Doctor, along with traveling companions Bradley Walsh, Tosin Cole and Mandip Gill.…
Invisible Man, The (2020): Dir. Leigh Whannell
Feat. Elisabeth Moss, Aldis Hodge, Storm Reid…; Strikingly original science fiction horror which revitalises the classic tale about a predatory man by H. G. Wells into a feminist exploration of…
Lapsis (2020): Dir. Noah Hutton
Feat. Dean Imperial, Madeline Wise, Babe Howard; Beguiling low budget sci–fi set in a parallel present, where a struggling delivery man takes a job laying cable for a new quantum trading…
Love and Monsters (2020): Dir. Michael Matthews
Feat. Dylan O’Brien, Michael Rooker, Jessica Henwick; After a Monsterpocalypse forces humans into underground colonies, a young man decides against all logic to brave the surface and face the monsters…
Mortal (Torden) (2020): Dir. André Øvredal
Feat. Nat Wolff, Iben Akerlie; Norwegian fantasy film inspired by Norse mythology, where a seemingly ordinary young man finds himself out of his depth when he discovers he has…
New Mutants, The (2020): Feat. Maisie Williams, Anya Taylor-Joy, Charlie Heaton…; This thirteenth and final installment in the X–Men film series follows five young mutants fighting to save themselves while being held in a…
Nine Days (2020): Dir. Edson Oda
Feat. Winston Duke, Zazie Beetz, Benedict Wong…; The assured debut of writer–director Edson Oda is this existential drama about life, death and rebirth, unfolding in a parallel dimension where…
Possessor (2020): Dir. Brandon Cronenberg
Feat. Andrea Riseborough, Christopher Abbott, Rossif Sutherland…; Brandon Cronenberg (ANTIVIRAL) wrote and directed this sci–fi horror about an assassin (Andrea Riseborough) who assumes control of other…
Red Dwarf (TV Series) - The Promised Land (2020): Feat. Chris Barrie, Craig Charles, Danny John-Jules…; The posse meet three cat clerics who worship Lister as their God. Lister vows to help them as they're being hunted by Rodon, the ruthless feral cat…
Save Yourselves! (2020): Dir. Alex Huston Fischer, Eleanor Wilson
Feat. John Paul Reynolds, Sunita Mani, John Early…; A light hearted sci–fi comedy about a young Brooklyn couple who disconnect and unplug their lives while on a remote holiday, and are unaware…
Tenet (2020): Dir. Christopher Nolan
Feat. John David Washington, Robert Pattinson, Elizabeth Debicki…; Beguiling, bamboozling film from sci–fi visionary hitmaker Christopher Nolan, following a secret agent who manipulates time to prevent…
Underwater (2020): Dir. William Eubank
Feat. Kristen Stewart, Vincent Cassel, John Gallagher Jr.…; Claustrophobic creature–feature following the fates of a group of oceanic researchers lead by a mechanical engineer (Kristen Stewart) whose…
Wonder Woman 1984 (2020): Dir. Patty Jenkins
Feat. Gal Gadot, Chris Pine, Kristen Wiig…; Israeli actress Gal Gadot is as charismatic as ever in this sequel to the 2017 DC Comics hit WONDER WOMAN, with Patty Jenkins (MONSTER) returning as…
Ad Astra (2019): Dir. James Gray
Feat. Brad Pitt, Tommy Lee Jones, Ruth Negga…; After his father's doomed space expedition threatens the universe, an astronaut embarks on a mission to the outer edges of the solar system to try to…
After Midnight (2019): Dir. Jeremy Gardner
Feat. Jeremy Gardner, Brea Grant; After his long–term girlfriend unexpectedly leaves him. a small town bar owner finds himself threatened by a mysterious unseen evil. A curious…
Alien Addiction (2019): Dir. Shae Sterling
Feat. Jimi Jackson, JoJo Waaka, Thomas Sainsbury; Goofball Kiwi comedy starring internet comedy sensations Tom Sainsbury and Jimi Jackson, the latter of whom plays a man from small town Waikato who…
Alita: Battle Angel (2019): Dir. Robert Rodriguez
Feat. Rosa Salazar, Christoph Waltz, Jennifer Connelly…; Cyberpunk action movie based on the 1990's manga, with director Rodriguez (SIN CITY) in his element, crafting a bleak and violent futurist world. A…
Astro Kid (Terra Willy: Unexplored Planet) (2019): Dir. Eric Tosti; Delightful French sci–fi animation about a ten–year old boy who discovers an unexplored planet after getting separated from his parents…
Avengers: Endgame (2019): Dir. Anthony Russo, Joe Russo
Feat. Robert Downey Jnr., Chris Evans, Mark Ruffalo…; A love letter to fans of this humongous mythology, this 22nd movie in the Marvel Cinematic Universe is an ambitious, three–hour sprawl…
Captain Marvel (2019): Dir. Anna Campion, Ryan Fleck
Feat. Brie Larson, Samuel L. Jackson, Ben Mendelsohn…; Thoroughly enjoyable entry into the bloated Marvel Franchise, notable for being the first one to be female–led and female co–directed.…
Color Out of Space (Colour Out of Space) (2019): Dir. Richard Stanley
Feat. Nicolas Cage, Joely Richardson, Q'orianka Kilcher…; Cult director Richard Stanley (HARDWARE) brings some nutty humour to this adaptation of the H. P. Lovecraft short story of the same name, with…
Extra Ordinary (2019): Dir. Mike Ahern, Enda Loughman
Feat. Maeve Higgins, Barry Ward, Will Forte…; A pleasingly off–kilter Irish supernatural comedy about a sweet–natured but lonely driving instructor who uses her paranormal talents to…
Gemini Man (2019): Dir. Ang Lee
Feat. Will Smith, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Clive Owen…; Will Smith plays both an aged hitman and the younger clone of himself who targets him, in this serviceable action thriller from acclaimed director…
Godzilla II: King of the Monsters (2019): Dir. Michael Dougherty
Feat. Kyle Chandler, Vera Farmiga, Millie Bobby Brown…; Godzilla goes up against some of the most popular monsters in pop culture history in this epic monster movie, a more inspired sequel to 2014's…
High Life (2019): Dir. Claire Denis
Feat. Robert Pattinson, Juliette Binoche, Andre Benjamin…; Legendary French director Claire Denis (Beau Travail) returns with her first English language film, a sci–fi horror set in deep space where a…
His Dark Materials (TV Series) (2019): Feat. Dafne Keen, Ruth Wilson, Anne-Marie Duff…; TV adaptation of the acclaimed fantasy novels by Phillip Pullman, thankfully much darker and more detailed than 2007's perfunctory feature THE GOLDEN…
Impulse (TV Series) (2019): Feat. Maddie Hasson, Sarah Desjardins; A withdrawn 16 year–old girl who struggles to fit in after moving to a new town discovers she has the ability to teleport while dealing with a…
Joker (2019): Dir. Todd Phillips
Feat. Joaquin Phoenix, Robert De Niro, Zazie Beetz…; Brilliantly dark psychological thriller introducing Batman's arch nemesis as a traumatised loner who finds his voice in acts of violence. An achingly…
Jumanji: The Next Level (2019): Dir. Jake Kasdan
Feat. Dwayne Johnson, Jack Black, Karen Gillan …; The cast of the successful, enjoyable reboot return for more jungle fantasy adventure, this time to rescue one of their own through braving parts…
Men in Black: International (Men in Black 4) (2019): Dir. F. Gary Gray
Feat. Tessa Thompson, Chris Hemsworth, Rebecca Ferguson…; Reboot of the sci–fi comedy about the top–secret organization which protects the earth from alien activity. Tessa Thompson and Chris…
Paradise Hills (2019): Dir. Alice Waddington
Feat. Emma Roberts, Danielle Macdonald, Awkwafina …; A rebellious teen girl is sent to an apparently idyllic disciplinary school to learn how to be a "young lady" in this visually elegant sci–fi…
Sea Fever (2019): Dir. Neasa Hardiman
Feat. Hermione Corfield, Dougray Scott, Connie Nielsen; Solid maritime thriller following a marine biology student working on a ragged fishing trawler whose crew members encounter an unfathomable…
Star Wars: Episode IX - The Rise of Skywalker (2019): Dir. J.J. Abrams
Feat. Carrie Fisher, Mark Hamill, Adam Driver…; The conflict between the Jedi and the Sith escalates in this dazzling conclusion to the Skywalker saga from director J.J. Abrams, backed by…
Synchronic (2019): Dir. Justin Benson, Aaron Moorhead
Feat. Anthony Mackie, Jamie Dornan; An otherworldly sci–fi thriller from talented film making duo Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead (THE ENDLESS). Follows a pair of New Orleans…
Terminator: Dark Fate (2019): Dir. Tim Miller
Feat. Linda Hamilton, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Mackenzie Davis…; Tim Miller (DEADPOOL) directs this sixth installment in the TERMINATOR franchise, with Sarah Connor returning 25 years after the events of TERMINATOR…
Twilight Zone, The (TV Series) (2019): Feat. Sanaa Lathan, Adam Scott, Kumail Nanjiani…; A second reprise of the iconic and influential cult TV series, with 10 self–contained episodes telling sci–fi tinged tales of the…
Vivarium (2019): Dir. Lorcan Finnegan
Feat. Imogen Poots, Jesse Eisenberg; A young couple shopping for their first home find themselves in a housing development where every house looks exactly the same, and with no idea how…
War of the Worlds (TV Mini-Series) (2019): Dir. Craig Viveiros
Feat. Eleanor Tomlinson, Rafe Spall, Rupert Graves…; 3 Part
X-Men: Dark Phoenix (2019): Dir. Simon Kinberg
Feat. James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender, Jennifer Lawrence…; Final installment in the X–Men film franchise that rebooted in 2011 with FIRST CLASS, set in 1992 where the X–Men are set on a mission by…
A Discovery of Witches (TV Series) (2018): Dir. Juan Carlos Medina
Feat. Teresa Palmer, Matthew Goode, Malin Buska…; A romantic thriller series adapted from Deborah Harkness' trilogy of novels that uncovers a secret underworld of vampires, witches and daemons hiding…
A Quiet Place (2018): Dir. John Krasinski
Feat. Emily Blunt, John Krasinski, Millicent Simmonds…; A smart and creative horror movie made by John Krasinski, who also stars alongside his real–life spouse Emily Blunt as parents fighting for…
A Wrinkle in Time (2018): Dir. Ava DuVernay
Feat. Oprah Winfrey, Reese Witherspoon, Storm Reid…; High–pitched Disney fantasy that follows a young woman and friends through space in search of her missing father who is held in the clutches of…
Annihilation (2018): Dir. Alex Garland
Feat. Natalie Portman, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Gina Rodriguez…; Distinctive sci–fi set around a mysterious environmental disaster zone within which the laws of nature do not apply. A biologist (Natalie…
Ant-Man and the Wasp (2018): Dir. Peyton Reed
Feat. Paul Rudd, Evangeline Lilly, Michael Pena…; In the aftermath of CAPTAIN AMERICA: CIVIL WAR, the lovable Marvel character Ant–Man (Paul Rudd) is fighting with The Wasp to uncover secrets…
Aquaman (2018): Dir. James Wan
Feat. Jason Momoa, Amber Heard, Willem Dafoe…; Bombastic superhero movie based on the DC comics character Aquaman, the half–human, half–Atlantean heir to the underwater city of…
Avengers: Infinity War (2018): Dir. Anthony Russo, Joe Russo
Feat. Robert Downey Jnr., Chris Hemsworth, Mark Ruffalo…; Bombastic Marvel Universe blockbuster teaming The Avengers with the Guardians of the Galaxy (and many more!) against the villain Thanos, who wants to…
Black Panther (2018): Dir. Ryan Coogler
Feat. Chadwick Boseman, Michael B. Jordan, Lupita Nyong'o…; Another massive hit, and considered one of the best of the eighteen films in the Marvel Comic Universe, and the first to feature a predominantly…
Bumblebee (2018): Dir. Travis Knight
Feat. Hailee Steinfeld, John Cena, Jorge Lendeborg Jr.…; This sixth installment in the live–action Transformers film series gets a fresh, family–friendly "reboot" with a 1980s period setting…
Darkest Minds, The (2018): Dir. Jennifer Yuh Nelson
Feat. Amandla Stenberg, Harris Dickinson, Mandy Moore…; Young adult dystopian thriller where the world is affected by a plague that kills almost every child in the human population, and those that remain…
Deadpool 2 (2018): Dir. David Leitch
Feat. Ryan Reynolds, Josh Brolin, Julian Dennison…; Ryan Reynolds returns for the sequel to the 2016 X–men blockbuster, delivering another round of bleakly comic jokes and…
Doctor Who (Series 11) [Jodie Whittaker] (2018): Feat. Jodie Whittaker, Bradley Walsh, Tosin Cole…; The Thirteenth Doctor and first Doctor to be a woman, played by Jodie Whittaker, touches down on Earth where she recruits three new friends –…
Fahrenheit 451 (2018): Dir. Ramin Bahrani
Feat. Michael B. Jordan, Michael Shannon, Sofia Boutella; Second adaptation of the classic sci–fi novel by Ray Bradbury, which depicts a dystopian future where art is outlawed. A lavish production…
Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald (2018): Dir. David Yates
Feat. Eddie Redmayne, Katherine Waterston, Dan Fogler…; Second installment in the Fantastic Beasts film series, following Newt Scamander and Albus Dumbledore as they go up against the dark wizard Gellert…
Freaks (2018): Dir. Zach Lipovsky
Feat. Emile Hirsch, Bruce Dern, Grace Park…; A canny keep–you–guessing sci–fi thriller that follows a 7–year–old girl who escapes into a sinister world after being…
Glass (2018): Dir. M. Night Shyamalan
Feat. Bruce Willis, Samuel L. Jackson, James McAvoy…; An ambitious, unconventional superhero thriller that provides an intersection between the director M. Night Shyamalan's previous films Unbreakable…
Guns Akimbo (2018): Dir. Jason Lei Howden
Feat. Daniel Radcliffe, Samara Weaving, Ned Dennehy…; Daniel Radcliffe plays a nerdy video game developer who tries to save his ex–girlfriend from kidnappers while competing in an illegal…
Homecoming (TV Series) (2018): Dir. Sam Esmail
Feat. Julia Roberts, Bobby Cannavale, Stephen James…; Haunting psychological thriller with Julia Roberts playing a woman who discovers she has been working for a mysterious government facility. Season…
Hotel Artemis (2018): Dir. Drew Pearce
Feat. Jodie Foster, Sterling K. Brown, Sofia Boutella…; A dystopian action–thriller starring Jodie Foster as The Nurse, who runs a secret, members–only emergency clinic for criminals in a…
I Think We're Alone Now (2018): Dir. Reed Morano
Feat. Peter Dinklage, Elle Fanning; An intriguing post–apocalyptic movie concerned with themes of grief and loss, following an introvert (Peter Dinklage) whose meticulously…
Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom (2018): Dir. Juan Antonio Bayona
Feat. Chris Pratt, Bryce Dallas Howard, Rafe Spall…; Sequel to JURASSIC WORLD (2015) and part of a planned trilogy, this creature feature blockbuster keeps the franchise alive with a fun, if…
Lost in Space (TV Series) (2018): Feat. Molly Parker, Toby Stephens, Taylor Russell…; Set thirty years in the future, this epic reimagining of the original family space adventure finds the Robinsons torn off course en route to what…
Man Who Killed Hitler and Then The Bigfoot, The (2018): Dir. Robert D. Krzykowski
Feat. Sam Elliott, Aidan Turner, Caitlin Fitzgerald…; An enjoyably crackpot premise is carried with striking sincerity and aplomb by Sam Elliott, who plays a legendary war vet recruited to hunt down…
Mega Time Squad (2018): Dir. Tim van Dammen
Feat. Anton Tennet, Jonathan Brugh, Milo Cawthorne…; Ingenious low–budget sci–fi comedy set in the tiny North Island town of Thames, New Zealand in which a small–town criminal finds an…
Mortal Engines (2018): Dir. Christian Rivers
Feat. Hera Hilmar, Hugo Weaving, Robert Sheehan; Peter Jackson produced fantasy epic set in a post–apocalyptic future, where cities survive by moving around on giant wheels and devouring…
Occupation (2018): Dir. Luke Sparke
Feat. Dan Ewing, Temuera Morrison; After a small outback town is attacked by aliens, a group of civilians join together to form a resistance army and fight for the survival of the…
Pacific Rim: Uprising (2018): Dir. Steven S. DeKnight
Feat. John Boyega, Scott Eastwood, Jing Tian; Pulpy sequel to the solidly entertaining PACIFIC RIM, set 10 years later where robot pilots are once again battling gigantic monsters called Kaiju,…
Predator, The (2018): Dir. Shane Black
Feat. Boyd Holbrook, Trevante Rhodes, Jacob Tremblay…; Fourth installment of the PREDATOR film series, following a team of ex–soldiers and a science teacher as they fight to protect the world from…
Prospect (2018): Dir. Zeek Earl, Chris Caldwell
Feat. Sophie Thatcher, Pedro Pascal, Jay Duplass; Uniquely atmospheric sci–fi thriller set on a remote alien moon, where a teenage girl and her father fight to survive while attempting to mine…
Ready Player One (2018): Dir. Steven Spielberg
Feat. Tye Sheridan, Olivia Cooke, Ben Mendelsohn…; Director Spielberg plays to his strengths in this adrenaline–filled love letter to 80's pop culture and video games. Set in the year 2045, most…
Slaughterhouse Rulez (2018): Dir. Crispian Mills
Feat. Asa Butterfield, Finn Cole, Hermione Corfield…; Entertaining Simon Pegg and Nick Frost produced horror comedy set at an illustrious British boarding school, where a nearby fracking site creates a…
Solo: A Star Wars Story (2018): Dir. Ron Howard
Feat. Alden Ehrenreich, Woody Harrelson, Paul Bettany…; Han Solo gets his own movie in this stand–alone Star Wars anthology film, taking place a decade prior to the events of A New Hope, where Han…
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018): Dir. Peter Ramsey, Rodney Rothman, Bob Persichetti
Feat. Mahershala Ali, Brian Tyree Henry, Lily Tomlin…; The first animated film in the Spider–Man franchise set in the Marvel "Spider–Verse", where struggling teen Miles Morales trains with the…
Upgrade (2018): Dir. Leigh Whannell
Feat. Logan Marshall-Green, Betty Gabriel, Harrison Gilbertson; Futuristic body horror about a man who "upgrades" his body using an AI implant called STEM after his wife is murdered – the kicker of the…
Venom (2018): Dir. Ruben Fleischer
Feat. Tom Hardy, Michelle Williams, Riz Ahmed…; The Marvel comics character Venom, an alien symbiote usually associated with Spider–Man, is the subject of this superhero movie with Tom Hardy…
X-Files, The - Season 11 (TV Series) (2018): Dir. Chris Carter, James Wong, Glen Morgan
Feat. Gillian Anderson, David Duchovny, Mitch Pileggi; Likely to be the final ever X–Files season, remaining loyal to the themes and tone lovingly cultivated throughout previous seasons, but with…
Zoe (2018): Dir. Drake Doremus
Feat. Ewan McGregor, Léa Seydoux, Theo James…; An engineer and a robot fall in love at a research lab for perfecting romantic relationships. An open minded but scientifically undemanding romantic…
Alien: Covenant (2017): Dir. Ridley Scott
Feat. Katherine Waterston, Michael Fassbender, Billy Crudup…; The alien resurrection continues with director Ridley Scott returning once again to the sci–fi blockbuster franchise for another…
Blade Runner 2049 (2017): Dir. Denis Villeneuve
Feat. Ryan Gosling, Harrison Ford, Ana de Armas…; The visionary director of ARRIVAL helms this faithfully thoughtful and spectacular sequel to the 1982 sci–fi classic, with Ryan Gosling…
Circle, The (2017): Dir. James Ponsoldt
Feat. Emma Watson, Tom Hanks, John Boyega…; Dave Egger's 2013 novel is adapted into this gripping modern thriller with Emma Watson rising in the ranks of the world's largest and most powerful…
Colossal (2017): Dir. Nacho Vigalondo
Feat. Anne Hathaway, Jason Sudeikis, Dan Stevens…; Ambitious high–concept sci–fi drama–comedy hybrid starring a plucky Anne Hathaway as an unemployed, down–at–heel city…
Counterpart (TV Series) (2017): Feat. J.K. Simmons, Olivia Williams, Ulrich Thomsen
Dark Tower, The (2017): Dir. Nikolaj Arcel
Feat. Idris Elba, Matthew McConaughey, Tom Taylor…; Stephen King adaptation which simplifies the author's acclaimed fantasy series into a watchable battle of good vs evil – represented by Idris…
Doctor Who (Series 10) [Peter Capaldi] Christmas Special 2017 (Twice Upon A Time) (2017): Dir. Rachel Talalay
Feat. Peter Capaldi, Pearl Mackie, David Bradley…; The time lord finds himself face to face with his former self, the original Doctor (David Bradley). Season 10 finale marks the final adventure for…
Doctor Who (Series 10:Part 1) [Peter Capaldi] (2017): Feat. Peter Capaldi, Pearl Mackie, Matt Lucas; The third and final series starring Peter Capaldi as the Twelfth Doctor that introduces Pearl Mackie as Bill Potts, and also features Matt Lucas as…
Doctor Who (Series 10:Part 2) [Peter Capaldi] (2017): Feat. Peter Capaldi; The third and final series starring Peter Capaldi continues with six futher episodes: "The Pyramid at the End of the World", "The Lie of the Land",…
Endless, The (2017): Dir. Justin Benson, Aaron Moorhead
Feat. Justin Benson, Aaron Moorhead, Callie Hernandez; The talented film making duo behind SPRING have written, directed and star in this intelligent low–budget mind–bender. Two brothers who…
Flatliners (2017): Dir. Niels Arden Oplev
Feat. Elliot Page, Diego Luna, Nina Dobrev…; A dead–on–arrival resuscitation of the 1990 thriller in which five med students experiment with stopping their hearts for short periods…
Ghost in the Shell (2017): Dir. Rupert Sanders
Feat. Scarlett Johansson, Pilou Asbæk, Takeshi Kitano…; Shot in New Zealand, this Westernised live action adaptation of the iconic Japanese franchise has Scarlet Johansson as the prototype…
Gifted, The (TV Series) (Marvel's The Gifted) (2017): Feat. Stephen Moyer, Amy Acker; TV series set in the X–Men universe, but in a timeline in which the X–Men have all but disappeared, as mutants are treated with derision…
Guardians of the Galaxy 2 (Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2) (2017): Dir. James Gunn
Feat. Chris Pratt, Zoe Saldana, Dave Bautista…; Second installment of the widely appealing comic–cosmic Marvel hit set to another batch of AM radio classics, though this time feels all…
Handmaid's Tale, The (TV Series) (2017): Feat. Elisabeth Moss, Joseph Fiennes, Yvonne Strahovski…; Emmy Award–winning drama created by Bruce Miller and based on the 1985 novel by Margaret Atwood. Set in a dystopian future, a woman is forced…
Justice League (2017): Dir. Zack Snyder
Feat. Ben Affleck, Henry Cavill, Gal Gadot…; DC Comics' answer to Marvel's Avengers combines the forces of their superhero properties; Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, Aquaman, Cyborg and The…
Kong: Skull Island (2017): Feat. Tom Hiddleston, Samuel L. Jackson, Brie Larson…; When a scientific expedition to an uncharted island awakens titanic forces of nature, a mission of discovery becomes an explosive war between monster…
Legion (TV Series) (2017): Feat. Dan Stevens, Rachel Keller, Aubrey Plaza…; The first TV Series based on the X–Men franchise follows Haller, the mutant son of Charles Xavier, who was diagnosed with schizophrenia from a…
Life (2017): Dir. Daniel Espinosa
Feat. Ryan Reynolds, Jake Gyllenhaal, Rebecca Ferguson…; Claustrophobic white knuckle horror where a team of scientists on an international space station discover that the biological sample they took from…
Logan (2017): Dir. James Mangold
Feat. Hugh Jackman, Dafne Keen, Patrick Stewart…; Passionate, mature X–Men spin–off featuring the surly Wolverine. Withdrawn and noticeably older (but still ass–kicking), Logan…
Marjorie Prime (2017): Dir. Michael Almereyda
Feat. Jon Hamm, Geena Davis, Lois Smith…; An entirely thought–provoking chamber–piece set in the not–too–distant future where an elderly woman with encroaching…
Maze Runner: The Death Cure (2017): Dir. Wes Ball
Feat. Dylan O‘Brien, Kaya Scodelario, Thomas Brodie-Sangster; The epic finale of THE MAZE RUNNER trilogy, the dystopian adventure series based on the popular young adult novels.
Orphan Black - Season 5 (TV Series) (2017): Feat. Tatiana Maslany; Final season of the extraordinary clone–centered sci–fi thriller, with formidable actress Tatiana Maslany reprising her many roles. The…
Orville, The (TV Series) (2017): Feat. Seth MacFarlane, Adrianne Palicki; Sci–fi comedy series following the dysfunctional crew of an exploratory space ship 400 years in the future. Created by the often brilliant Seth…
Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams (TV Series) (2017): Feat. Timothy Spall, Jack Reynor, Benedict Wong…; A cutting–edge sci–fi anthology series with stand–alone episodes based on the works of Philip K. Dick. Ten episodes: "Real Life",…
Power Rangers (2017): Dir. Dean Israelite
Feat. Dacre Montgomery, Naomi Scott, RJ Cyler…; Reboot of the fondly remembered teen super–hero TV Series, where aliens attack a small town and five ordinary adolescents must call upon their…
Resident Evil: Vendetta (2017): Dir. Takanori Tsujimoto
Feat. Orion Acaba, Erin Cahill, Darin De Paul; Third installment in the CG animated film franchise after DEGENERATION and DAMNATION, set in the same universe as the iconic video games series…
Salvation (TV Series) (2017): Feat. Santiago Cabrera, Jennifer Finnigan, Charlie Rowe; Sci–fi suspense series about a grad student whose self–designed app discovers a giant asteroid is hurtling toward the planet and the…
Shape of Water, The (2017): Dir. Guillermo Del Toro
Feat. Sally Hawkins, Michael Shannon, Richard Jenkins…; At a top secret research facility in the 1950s, a lonely janitor forms a unique relationship with an amphibious creature that is being held in…
Space Between Us, The (2017): Dir. Peter Chelsom
Feat. Asa Butterfield, Gary Oldman, Carla Gugino…; Sci–fi romance where a teenage boy who has grown up on Mars visits earth for the first time. Enlisting the help of a misfit girl from Colorado,…
Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017): Dir. Jon Watts
Feat. Tom Holland, Michael Keaton, Jon Favreau…; Excellent (and third) big–screen reboot of the Marvel Comics franchise that picks up after the events of CAPTAIN AMERICA: CIVIL WAR. Spidey…
Star Trek: Discovery (TV Series) (2017): Feat. Sonequa Martin-Green, Doug Jones, Shazad Latif…; Another iteration of the enduring STAR TREK series following "Star Trek: Enterprise" set ten years before Kirk, Spock and the Enterprise, the USS…
Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017): Dir. Rian Johnson
Feat. Daisy Ridley, John Boyega, Mark Hamill…; Refreshing and self–assured entry into the franchise, which pays respectful homage to both the franchise and the expectations of…
Thor: Ragnarok (2017): Dir. Taika Waititi
Feat. Chris Hemsworth, Tom Hiddleston, Cate Blanchett…; New Zealand's most successful film–maker on home turf (and former Aro Valleyite) Taika Waititi makes his equally successful Hollywood debut…
Transformers: The Last Knight (2017): Dir. Michael Bay
Feat. Mark Wahlberg, Josh Duhamel, Stanley Tucci…; A cacophonous plot and state–of–the–art special effects mark this fifth installment of the franchise, a largely…
Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets (2017): Dir. Luc Besson
Feat. Dane DeHaan, Cara Delevingne, Ethan Hawke…; Expensive and extravagant space opera set in the 28th Century, where a team of special operatives investigate a dark force that threatens peace in…
War for the Planet of the Apes (2017): Dir. Matt Reeves
Feat. Andy Serkis, Woody Harrelson, Steve Zahn; The third and final installment in the excellent Planet of the Apes prequel trilogy, with director Matt Reeves returning to complete the story that…
What Happened To Monday (Seven Sisters) (2017): Dir. Tommy Wirkola
Feat. Noomi Rapace, Glenn Close, Willem Dafoe; By the director of DEAD SNOW and featuring a dynamic performance from Noomi Rapace as seven different characters. A dystopian future government is…
Wonder Woman (2017): Dir. Patty Jenkins
Feat. Gal Gadot, Chris Pine, Robin Wright…; Israeli actress Gal Gadot dazzles as the charismatic warrior princess who must leave her mythical island paradise and sail into WWI–embattled…
11.22.63 (TV Mini-Series) (2016): Feat. James Franco, Sarah Gadon, Cherry Jones…; Time–travel drama from the pen of Stephen King with James Franco traveling back in time in an attempt to prevent the assassination of JFK.
5th Wave, The (2016): Dir. J Blakeson
Feat. Chloe Grace Moretz, Nick Robinson, Ron Livingston…; Based on the popular young adult novels, this post–apocalyptic thriller sees Moretz frantically search for her younger brother after Earth is…
Allegiant (2016): Dir. Robert Schwentke
Feat. Shailene Woodley, Theo James, Jeff Daniels…; Third in the Divergent series sees Shailene Woodley's Tris trying frantically to escape with Four beyond the wall that encircles Chicago, to finally…
Arrival (2016): Dir. Denis Villeneuve
Feat. Amy Adams, Jeremy Renner, Forest Whitaker…; Amy Adams plays a linguistics expert who is recruited by the military to determine the intentions of seemingly–benign alien visitors who have…
Assassin's Creed (2016): Dir. Justin Kurzel
Feat. Michael Fassbender, Marion Cotillard, Jeremy Irons…; Movie adaptation of the enormously popular video game where a man unlocks his "genetic memory", allowing him to access the memories, knowledge and…
Batman vs. Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016): Dir. Zack Snyder
Feat. Ben Affleck, Henry Cavill, Amy Adams…; Dour superhero spectacle sees DC comic's finest face off after Batman becomes concerned with Superman's unchecked powers.
Batman: The Killing Joke (2016): Dir. Sam Liu; The joker escapes from Arkham Asylum and it's up to Batman to stop him from driving police commissioner James Gordon insane. Twenty–sixth film…
Death and Life of Otto Bloom, The (2016): Dir. Cris Jones
Feat. Xavier Samuel, Rachel Ward, Matilda Brown; The chronicle of the life and great love of Otto Bloom, an extraordinary man who experiences time in reverse – passing backwards through the…
Doctor Strange (2016): Dir. Scott Derrickson
Feat. Benedict Cumberbatch, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Rachel McAdams…; The fourteenth film from the Marvel superhero franchise stars Cumberbatch as the title hero, a neurosurgeon disabled in a car crash who turns to a…
Doctor Who (Series 10) [Peter Capaldi] Christmas Special 2016 (The Return of Doctor Mysterio) (2016): Feat. Peter Capaldi, Matt Lucas, Charity Wakefield…; A Doctor Who Christmas special with Peter Capaldi and Matt Lucas as Nardole, wh returns from the previous special "The Husbands of River Song". Set…
Girl With All the Gifts, The (2016): Dir. Colm McCarthy
Feat. Sennia Nanua, Gemma Arterton, Paddy Considine…; Aimed especially at young adults, this British take on the zombie thriller features the unique presence of an exceptional young girl who is…
Independence Day 2: Resurgence (2016): Dir. Roland Emmerich
Feat. Liam Hemsworth, Jeff Goldblum, Jessie Usher…; Routine effects–heavy sequel is set decades after the first Independence Day invasion, and finds Earth once again faced with an alien threat.
Limitless (TV Series) (2016): Feat. Jake McDorman, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Jennifer Carpenter; Enjoyable follow–up to the Bradley Cooper film, this has Jake McDorman playing a typical twenty–something who gains the ability to use…
Living and the Dead, The (TV Mini-series) (2016): Feat. Colin Morgan, Charlotte Spencer; Spooky anglophile escapism set in picturesque Victorian–era Somerset, following the supernatural afflictions of a pioneering psychologist after…
Midnight Special (2016): Dir. Jeff Nichols
Feat. Michael Shannon, Joel Edgerton, Kirsten Dunst…; Soulful sci–fi thriller from director Jeff Nichols (TAKE SHELTER, MUD) follows a father and son as they go on the run, pursued by the…
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (2016): Dir. Tim Burton
Feat. Eva Green, Asa Butterfield, Samuel L. Jackson…; Tim Burton's spectacular adaptation of the young adult fantasy novel about a teenager who discovers a portal to a different time in coastal Wales…
Morgan (2016): Dir. Luke Scott
Feat. Kate Mara, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Michelle Yeoh…; A flawed yet tense and thought–provoking sci–fi thriller about a corporate risk–management consultant who must decide whether or…
Orphan Black - Season 4 (TV Series) (2016): Feat. Tatiana Maslany; Thought–provoking sci–fi thriller conflates big ideas in morals and ethics with an absorbing plot centred on a con–artist who…
Osiris Child, The (Science Fiction Volume One) (2016): Dir. Shane Abbass
Feat. Kellan Lutz, Daniel MacPherson, Teagan Croft…; Paying homage to sci–fi B–movies of the 80s and 90s with a straight face, this is an impressively ambitious low–budget sci–fi…
Passengers (2016): Dir. Morten Tyldum
Feat. Jennifer Lawrence, Chris Pratt, Laurence Fishburne…; Jennifer Lawrence and Chris Pratt play passengers on board a spacecraft destined for a distant planet, who are awakened from their sleeping pods 90…
Resident Evil: The Final Chapter (2016): Dir. Paul W.S. Anderson
Feat. Milla Jovovich, Iain Glen, Ali Larter…; Super soldier Alice is drawn back into the battle against the undead when she is the only survivor of the apocalypse at the end of Resident Evil:…
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016): Dir. Gareth Edwards
Feat. Felicity Jones, Diego Luna, Alan Tudyk…; The phenomenal mythology of Star Wars expands again with this first of the "standalone" films, a suitably epic adventure that inaugurates a fresh…
Rupture (2016): Dir. Steven Shainberg
Feat. Noomi Rapace, Peter Stormare; Torture horror in which a single mother (Rapace) is brutally kidnapped and forced to experience her deepest fears by a sadistic organisation who…
Shin Godzilla (2016): Dir. Hideaki Anno
Feat. Hiroki Hasegawa, Satomi Ishihara, Yutaka Takenouchi; Terrifying resurgence of the Godzilla franchise from director Hideaki Anno (EVANGELION), taking inspiration from the Fukushima and Tōhoku…
Star Trek: Beyond (2016): Dir. Justin Lin
Feat. Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto, Karl Urban…; Thrilling third installment has Kirk and the crew of the USS Enterprise crew explores the furthest reaches of uncharted space, where they encounter…
Stranger Things (TV Series) (2016): Feat. Winona Ryder, David Harbour, Finn Wolfhard…; A web television series phenomenon that pays hefty homage to the tropes and aesthetics of sci–fi adventure and horror film of the 1980s and the…
Terraformars: The Movie (2016): Dir. Takashi Miike
Feat. Rinko Kikuchi, Rila Fukushima, Kane Kosugi…; A team of human exterminators are on a mission to wipe out a ridiculous cockroach infestation that plagues the red planet, after a terraforming…
This Giant Papier-Mache Boulder Is Actually Really Heavy (This Giant Paper Mache Boulder Is Actually Really Heavy) (2016): Dir. Christian Nicolson
Feat. Christian Nicolson, Daniel Pujol; Three nerds are inexplicably plunged into a B–grade sci–fi movie where they must comandeer a rickety old spaceship and find a way to…
Timeless (TV Series) (2016-2018): Feat. Abigail Spencer, Matt Lanter, Goran Visnjic…; A time travel/alternate history sci–fi series in which a history professor, a soldier and a scientist attempt to stop a mysterious organization…
Travelers (TV Series) (2016): Feat. Eric McCormack; Smart and thought–provoking time travel series exploring the concept that future humans can develop the technology to send their…
Westworld (TV Series) (2016): Feat. Evan Rachel Wood, Thandiwe Newton, Jeffrey Wright…; Phenomenally popular science–fiction western series from creator Jonathan Nolan, set in a fictional theme park populated by android "hosts",…
Wynonna Earp (TV Series) (2016): Feat. Melanie Scrofano, Shamier Anderson, Tim Rozon…; Canadian supernatural Western series based on the IDW Comic, that follows Wyatt Earp's great granddaughter as she battles demons and other creatures…
X-Files Event Series, The (TV Series) (X-Files, The - Season 10) (2016): Feat. David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Mitch Pileggi…; Thrilling six–episode return of the conspiracy driven series. Mulder and Scully return to investigate were–monsters, terrorists, deadly…
X-Men: Apocalypse (2016): Dir. Bryan Singer
Feat. James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender, Jennifer Lawrence…; The franchise roles on with the X–Men confronting a resurrected mutant determined to re–make the world.
Absolutely Anything (2015): Dir. Terry Jones
Feat. Simon Pegg, Kate Beckinsale, Sanjeev Bhaskar…; Mony Python and Simon Pegg feature in this undemanding comedy in which a group of eccentric aliens confer a human being with the power to do…
Aquarius (TV Series) (2015): Feat. David Duchovny; David Duchovny headlines this gritty 1960s cop drama about a cop who goes undercover to track Charles Manson and the Manson Family before their…
Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015): Dir. Joss Whedon
Feat. Robert Downey Jnr., Chris Evans, Mark Ruffalo…; More Marvel mayhem has the team forced to reassemble after Tony Stark and Bruce Banner awaken a long dormant peacekeeping program.
Chappie (2015): Dir. Neill Blomkamp
Feat. Sharlto Copley, Dev Patel, Hugh Jackman…; Neill Blomkamp (DISTRICT 9) helms this chirpy actioner set in a future overseen by a fascistic, mechanized police force but when one police droid is…
Childhood's End (TV Mini-series) (2015): Feat. Mike Vogel, Osy Ikhile, Daisy Betts…; Sci–fi mini–series based on the 1953 novel by Arthur C. Clarke that posits the peaceful alien invasion of Earth by the mysterious…
Coherence (2015): Dir. James Ward Byrkit
Feat. Emily Foxler, Nicholas Brendon; This inventive and mostly improvised zero–budget indie has been admirably compared to PRIMER and follows eight friends at a dinner party who…
Dark Matter (TV Series) (2015-2017): Feat. Marc Bendavid, Anthony Lemke, Alex Mallari Jr.…; Intriguing Canadian sci–fi series created by Joseph Mallozzi and Paul Mullie, based on their comic book of the same name. Set in a dystopian…
Doctor Who (Series 9) [Peter Capaldi] Christmas Special (The Husbands of River Song) (2015): Dir. Douglas Mackinnon
Feat. Peter Capaldi, Matt Lucas, Alex Kingston…; On Christmas day, the Doctor is called to the site of a crashed spaceship. He soon finds himself recruited to help River Song evade the furious King…
Doctor Who (Series 9:Part 2) [Peter Capaldi] (2015): Feat. Peter Capaldi, Jenna Coleman, Maisie Williams; Epic conclusion to the ninth series of Doctor Who, with the clock ticking the Zygons aren’t the only threat they’ll be facing as they embark on…
Equals (2015): Dir. Drake Doremus
Feat. Nicholas Hoult, Kristen Stewart, Guy Pearce…; Thoughtful sci–fi drama set in an emotionless utopia with Hoult and Stewart as two people falling in love after they regain their feelings from…
Ex Machina (2015): Dir. Alex Garland
Feat. Alicia Vikander, Domhnall Gleeson, Oscar Isaac; A supremely elegant and thought–provoking sci–fi from the novelist Alex Garland concerns a young programmer selected to participate in a…
Expanse, The (TV Series) (2015): Feat. Thomas Jane, Steven Strait, Cas Anvar…; Ambitious adaptation of the hugely popular science fiction novels by James S. A. Corey, set in a future where Mars and the asteroid belt have been…
Fantastic Four, The (2015): Dir. Josh Trank
Feat. Miles Teller, Michael B. Jordan, Kate Mara…; Contemporary re–imagining of Marvel's original and longest–running superhero in which transported to an alternate universe, four young…
Ghost in the Shell: The New Movie (2015): Dir. Kazuya Nomura; The groundbreaking cybernetic anime finds new life in this topical re–boot, as Japanese special ops uncover a web of government corruption…
Glitch (TV Series) (2015): Dir. Emma Freeman
Feat. Patrick Brammall, Emma Booth, Emily Barclay; Paranormal series set in small–town Australia with a cop investigating the case of seven people apparently rising from the dead.
Hardcore Henry (2015): Dir. Ilya Naishuller
Feat. Sharlto Copley, Tim Roth, Haley Bennett…; Innovative yet wearying sci–fi action film completely shot from a first–person perspective (using multiple head–mounted…
Humans (TV Series) (2015-2018): Feat. William Hurt, Rebecca Front, Gemma Chan…; Sci–fi series set in a parallel present where the latest must–have gadget for any busy family is a 'Synth' – a…
Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 2 (2015): Dir. Francis Lawrence
Feat. Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson, Liam Hemsworth…; Satisfying conclusion to the dystopian series has Katniss reunite with her friends as the war of Panem escalates.
Insurgent (2015): Dir. Robert Schwentke
Feat. Shailene Woodley, Ansel Elgort, Theo James…; Shailene Woodley returns in this second part of the dystopian teen trilogy and continues her fight against a powerful alliance which threatens to…
Jupiter Ascending (2015): Dir. Lilly Wachowski, Lana Wachowski
Feat. Channing Tatum, Mila Kunis, Eddie Redmayne…; A defiantly outlandish sci–fi epic from the Wachowski siblings (THE MATRIX, CLOUD ATLAS) that tells the tale of a young woman who discovers her…
Jurassic World (2015): Dir. Colin Trevorrow
Feat. Chris Pratt, Bryce Dallas Howard, Ty Simpkins…; The monstrous popcorn franchise reboots on the premise of silly humans building a theme park on the original site of Jurassic Park, only to have its…
Last Man On Earth, The (TV Series) (2015): Feat. Will Forte, Kristen Schaal, January Jones…; Quirky send–up of the post–apocalypse genre with talented comedians Kristen Schaal and Will Forte playing a pair of mismatched survivors…
Mad Max: Fury Road (2015): Dir. George Miller
Feat. Tom Hardy, Charlize Theron, Nicholas Hoult…; Thrillingly turbo–charged fourth installment (and effective reboot) of the "salvage punk" action series set in post–apocalyptic Australia…
Martian, The (2015): Dir. Ridley Scott
Feat. Matt Damon, Jessica Chastain, Kristen Wiig…; Ridley Scott adapts the acclaimed novel by Andy Weir as an unabashed crowd–pleaser about an astronaut who is left behind after a manned mission…
Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials (2015): Dir. Wes Ball
Feat. Dylan O‘Brien, Kaya Scodelario, Thomas Brodie-Sangster…; Second entry in the dystopian adventure series picks up where its predecessor left off. Having escaped the Maze, the Gladers uncover a diabolical…
Orphan Black - Season 3 (TV Series) (2015): Feat. Tatiana Maslany; Thought–provoking sci–fi thriller conflates big ideas in morals and ethics with an absorbing plot centred on a con–artist who…
Pixels (2015): Dir. Chris Columbus
Feat. Adam Sandler, Kevin James, Michelle Monaghan…; Adam Sandler and pals must use their old–school gaming skills to save the world after aliens misinterpret video feeds of classic arcade games…
Self/less (Selfless) (2015): Dir. Tarsem Singh
Feat. Ryan Reynolds, Ben Kingsley, Matthew Goode…; High–concept, though convoluted thriller from Tarsem Singh (THE FALL) about a dying real estate mogul who transfers his consciousness into a…
Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens (2015): Dir. J.J. Abrams
Feat. Daisy Ridley, John Boyega, Oscar Isaac…; A triumphant return to a a galaxy far, far away – and one that seemed further away after the prequels – is thrillingly directed by reboot…
Survivalist, The (2015): Dir. Stephen Fingleton
Feat. Martin McCann, Mia Goth, Andrew Simpson; In a kill–or–be–killed world where starvation is rife and strangers are always dangerous, one man lives off the grid, and by his…
Tale of Tales (2015): Dir. Matteo Garrone
Feat. Salma Hayek, Vincent Cassel, Toby Jones…; Wonderfully imaginative, cohesive portmanteau film comprised of three unusual, somewhat grotesque fairy tales featuring sea monsters, lustful kings…
Terminator: Genisys (2015): Dir. Alan Taylor
Feat. Arnold Schwarzenegger, Jason Clarke, Emilia Clarke…; Arnie is back as the T–800, and back in 1984 with the twist that this time out he's Sarah Connor's guardian, but a fractured timeline cause…
Tomorrowland (2015): Dir. Brad Bird
Feat. George Clooney, Britt Robertson, Hugh Laurie…; Disney live–action adventure that allies a scientifically–curious teenage girl and a former boy–genius inventor (Clooney) who…
Turbo Kid (2015): Dir. Francois Simard, Yoann-Karl Whissell, Anouk Whissell
Feat. Munro Chambers, Laurence Leboeuf, Michael Ironside…; Recommended for teens with strong constitutions, this gory post–apocalyptic romp set in a desolate "alternate 1997" follows a comic book fan…
Z For Zachariah (2015): Dir. Craig Zobel
Feat. Chiwetel Ejiofor, Chris Pine, Margot Robbie; Compelling sci–fi drama in which New Zealand stands in for the pastoral American South, set in the wake of a nuclear war that wipes out most of…
100, The (TV Series) (2014): Feat. Eliza Taylor; A hodgepodge of sci–fi tropes crowd this youth–oriented post–apocalyptic drama about 100 teenagers who are sent back to earth to…
Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D (TV Series) (Agents of Shield) (2014): Feat. Clark Gregg, Ming Na; This Joss Whedon–created series, an extension of the ever expanding Marvel universe, follows the adventures of a spy agency made up of…
Alien Abduction (2014): Dir. Matty Beckerman
Feat. Katherine Sigismund; Expect the expected in this routine though entirely competent "found footage" horror chronicling the terror of a family who encounter alien abductors…
Amazing Spider-Man 2, The (Rise of Electro) (2014): Dir. Marc Webb
Feat. Andrew Garfield, Emma Stone, Jamie Foxx…; Peter Parker comes up against Electro and the Green Goblin in this brash sequel to the Spider–Man reboot.
Automata (2014): Dir. Gabe Ibanez
Feat. Antonio Banderas, Birgitte Hjort Sørensen, Dylan McDermott…; Antonio Banderas plays an insurance agent at a robotics corporation. He must investigate a series of violent incidents involving robots violating…
Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014): Dir. Anthony Russo, Joe Russo
Feat. Chris Evans, Samuel L. Jackson, Scarlett Johansson…; The Marvel juggernaut rolls on with this colossal sequel to the Captain America storyline, in which Steve Rogers must clear his name after being…
Cure, The (2014): Dir. David Gould
Feat. Antonia Prebble, Stephen Lovatt, John Bach…; An American–accented medical thriller in which Antonia Prebble plays a scientist who discovers that the pharmaceutical company she works for is…
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (2014): Dir. Matt Reeves
Feat. Jason Clarke, Gary Oldman, Keri Russell…; This exciting sequel to the prequel in the PLANET OF THE APES franchise concerns the conflict between a growing nation of genetically evolved apes…
Divergent (2014): Dir. Neil Burger
Feat. Shailene Woodley, Theo James, Ashley Judd…; Shailene Woodley plays a 'divergent', a personality type marked for elimination in this dystopian thriller based on Veronica Roth's bestselling young…
Doctor Who (Series 8) [Peter Capaldi] (Dr. Who) (2014): Feat. Peter Capaldi, Jenna-Louise Coleman; Peter Capaldi (IN THE LOOP) is the twelfth reincarnate, joined by plucky sidekick Jenna–Louise Coleman, in a new series of timewarp adventures…
Doctor Who (Series 9:Part 1) [Peter Capaldi] (2014): Feat. Peter Capaldi, Jenna Coleman, Maisie Williams; Peter Capaldi returns for his second season as the Tardis travelling Time Lord. Episodes 1–6: 'The Magician's Apprentice', 'The Witch's…
Earth to Echo (2014): Dir. Dave Green
Feat. Teo Halm; A group of kids band together to help a stranded alien make its way back to its home planet in this spirited homage to E.T. and the stargazing family…
Edge of Tomorrow (2014): Dir. Doug Liman
Feat. Tom Cruise, Emily Blunt, Brendan Gleeson…; Tom Cruise plays a reluctant futuristic solider who gets caught in a time loop and is forced to repeat his death on the battlefield until victory…
Extant (TV Series) (2014): Feat. Halle Berry, Goran Visnjic, Grace Gummer; An astronaut struggles to learn how she became pregnant while on a 13–month–long solo space mission.
Future Shock! The Story of 2000AD (2014): The story of mighty British sci–fi comic 2000AD is passionately told by the creators and artists Pat Mills, Neil Gaiman, Grant Morrison, John…
Giver, The (2014): Dir. Phillip Noyce
Feat. Jeff Bridges, Meryl Streep, Brenton Thwaites…; In the near future, Jonas (Thwaites) is born into a perfect world. There is no pain, disagreement or choice. He is chosen for training under "The…
Godzilla (2014): Dir. Gareth Edwards
Feat. Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Bryan Cranston, Elizabeth Olsen…; The mighty Godzilla returns to the big screen in this thrilling new treatment from MONSTERS director Gareth Edwards.
Guardians of the Galaxy (2014): Dir. James Gunn
Feat. Chris Pratt, Zoe Saldana, Dave Bautista…; Marvel's latest extravaganza is an irresistible pop–culture–inflected comic romp that centres on a group of space criminals who must work…
Helix (TV Series) (2014): Feat. Billy Campbell, Hiroyuki Sanada, Kyra Zagorsky…; Schlocky sci–fi thriller series from the Syfy channel that follows a team of scientists from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention…
Home (2014): Dir. Tim Johnson
Feat. Jim Parsons, Rihanna , Steve Martin…; An alien on the run from his own people, lands on Earth and makes friends with the adventurous Tip, who is on a quest of her own.
Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1 (2014): Dir. Francis Lawrence
Feat. Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson, Liam Hemsworth…; Third in the series finds Katniss in District 13 fighting to save Peeta who is now a brainwashed captive of President Snow.
In Your Eyes (2014): Dir. Brin Hill
Feat. Zoe Kazan, Michael Stahl-David, Nikki Reed…; Paranormal romance scripted by Joss Whedon about two unrelated people who establish a telepathic bond that enables them to see hear and feel the…
Infinite Man, The (2014): Dir. Hugh Sullivan
Feat. John McConville, Hannah Marshall, Alex Dimitriades; A man's attempts to construct the ultimate romantic weekend backfire when his quest for perfection traps his lover in an infinite loop.
Interstellar (2014): Dir. Christopher Nolan
Feat. Matthew McConaughey, Anne Hathaway, Jessica Chastain…; Christopher Nolan's space epic has a team of explorers travel through a wormhole in an attempt to ensure humanity's survival.
Jodorowsky's Dune (2014): Dir. Frank Pavich
Feat. Orson Welles, Salvador Dali, Mick Jagger…; Billed as the greatest sci–fi movie never made, Alejandro Jodorowsky's attempt to adapt Frank Herbert's groundbreaking novel DUNE makes for a…
Left Behind (2014): Dir. Vic Armstrong
Feat. Nicolas Cage, Chad Michael Murray, Lea Thompson…; A small group of survivors are left behind after millions of people suddenly vanish and the world is plunged into chaos and destruction.
Lucy (2014): Dir. Luc Besson
Feat. Scarlett Johansson, Morgan Freeman, Min-sik Choi; A woman's full mental capacity is unlocked when she inadvertently digests a powerful synthetic drug in this outrageous action film from dir. Luc…
Maze Runner, The (2014): Dir. Wes Ball
Feat. Dylan O‘Brien, Thomas Brodie-Sangster, Will Poulter…; Post–apocalyptic thriller with teenage boys battling for survival in an enclosed maze.
Monsters: Dark Continent (2014): Dir. Tom Green
Feat. Johnny Harris, Joe Dempsie, Sam Keeley; Sequel to MONSTERS takes place ten years after the events of the first film, and the 'Infected Zones' have now spread worldwide. In the Middle East a…
Orphan Black - Season 2 (TV Series) (2014): Feat. Tatiana Maslany, Dylan Bruce, Jordan Gavaris; Further episodes in this thought–provoking sci–fi thriller, which conflates big ideas in morals and ethics with an absorbing plot centred…
Outlander (TV Series) (2014): Feat. Caitriona Balfe, Sam Heughan, Duncan Lacroix…; From the pen of Ronald D. Moore comes this tale of a combat nurse from 1945 who is mysteriously swept back in time to 18th century Scotland, a…
Parasyte: Part One (2014): Dir. Takashi Yamazaki
Feat. Shota Sometani, Eri Fukatsu, Ai Hashimoto…; Based on a long running Manga, this horror–comedy offers up Cronenbergian thrills in a world under attack from parasitic worm–like…
Parts Per Billion (2014): Dir. Brian Horiuchi
Feat. Frank Langella, Gena Rowlands, Rosario Dawson…; The emotional reverberations of an imminent biological disaster are explored in this strained drama focused on three couples coping with the end of…
Predestination (2014): Dir. The Spierig Brothers
Feat. Ethan Hawke, Sarah Snook, Noah Taylor; Ethan Hawke plays a Temporal Agent in pursuit of an elusive criminal across time in this loopy yet engaging indentity–crisis thriller based on…
Project Almanac (2014): Dir. Dean Israelite
Feat. Amy Landecker, Sofia Black-D'Elia, Jonny Weston; Time–travel adventure with a group of teens discovering secret plans of a time machine, and constructing one. However, things start to get out…
Real History of Science Fiction, The (TV Series) (2014): Feat. Mark Gatiss, William Shatner, Nichelle Nichols…; The story of one of the liveliest and most stimulating genres in popular culture told through its impact on cinema, television and literature. Each…
Resurrection (TV Series) (2014): Feat. Omar Epps, Frances Fisher; A small Missouri town is the site of a number of unexplained resurrections in this thought–provoking drama, reminiscent of – though…
Robocop (2014): Dir. José Padilha
Feat. Joel Kinnaman, Gary Oldman, Michael Keaton…; Paul Verhoeven's electric blockbuster about a tormented robotic supercop is rebooted for the 21st century.
Robot Overlords (2014): Dir. Jon Wright
Feat. Ben Kingsley, Gillian Anderson, Callan McAuliffe…; Cheap and cheerful sci–fi set in a world overrun by robots from another galaxy Earth's future is in the hand of a small band of rebellious…
Sharknado 2: The Second One (2014): Dir. Anthony C. Ferrante
Feat. Ian Ziering, Tara Reid, Vivica A. Fox…; Jumping the shark is this "slightly better" sequel to the unlikely disaster movie hit. The definition of dumb fun.
Signal, The (2014): Dir. William Eubank
Feat. Brenton Thwaites, Olivia Cooke, Laurence Fishburne…; Three bright young students venture deep into the Nevada desert in search of a notorious hacker, and discover they have been drawn into an enigmatic…
Space Station 76 (2014): Dir. Jack Plotnick
Feat. Patrick Wilson, Liv Tyler, Matt Bomer…; Funny and earnest sci–fi spoof, set on a funky space station in the 70s.
Spring (2014): Dir. Justin Benson, Aaron Moorhead
Feat. Lou Taylor Pucci, Nadia Hilker, Vanessa Bednar; A captivating hybrid of "tourist romance" and "body horror" (yes, Linklater meets Cronenberg) in which a recently orphaned young man flees the US for…
Transcendence (2014): Dir. Wally Pfister
Feat. Johnny Depp, Rebecca Hall, Paul Bettany…; Johnny Depp plays an innovator in the field of artificial intelligence whose consciousness is absorbed into a computer mainframe. The directorial…
Transformers - Age of Extinction (Transformers 4) (2014): Dir. Michael Bay
Feat. Mark Wahlberg, Stanley Tucci, Kelsey Grammer…; Shia LaBeouf passes the Transformers baton to dudebro Mark Wahlberg in this kunckleheaded fourth installment of the Michael Bay–helmed…
X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014): Dir. Bryan Singer
Feat. Hugh Jackman, James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender…; This latest installment in the X–Men saga sees Wolverine travel back in time to prevent a world changing event.
Young Ones (Bad Land: Road to Fury) (2014): Dir. Jake Paltrow
Feat. Michael Shannon, Nicholas Hoult, Kodi Smit-McPhee…; Michael Shannon struggles to provide for his family in a post–apocalyptic world where water supplies are increasingly scarce. A spare…
After Earth (2013): Dir. M. Night Shyamalan
Feat. Will Smith, Jaden Smith, Sophie Okonedo…; In a constellation of derivative sci–fi blockbusters, this nepotistic father–son vehicle for Will and Jaden Smith crash lands with a…
Almost Human (TV Series) (2013): Feat. Karl Urban, Michael Ealy, Minka Kelly…; Futuristic sci–fi series set in the year 2048, where a human cop (Karl Urban) partners up with an android to fight crime as part of a new…
An Adventure In Space In Time (2013): Dir. Terry McDonough
Feat. David Bradley, Brian Cox, Jessica Raine; Dramatic re–telling of the creation of the television series Doctor Who, created to celebrate the shows fiftieth anniversary, boasts an…
Battlestar Galactica (TV Series) - Blood and Chrome (2013): Dir. Jonas Pate
Feat. Luke Pasqualino; This standalone Battlestar Galactica movie – originally a ten–episode web–series – bridges the events between those depicted…
Beautiful Creatures (2013): Dir. Richard LaGravenese
Feat. Alden Ehrenreich, Alice Englert, Jeremy Irons…; A young man is drawn to a mysterious new arrival whose family possess secret supernatural powers in this vivid adaptation of Kami Garcia and Margaret…
Doctor Who (TV Documentaries) (An Adventure in Space and Time; The Ultimate Guide) (2013): Feat. William Hartnell; 'An Adventure in Space and Time' – This 50th anniversary commission dramatises how Doctor Who was first brought to the screen in 1963. William…
Double, The (2013): Dir. Richard Ayoade
Feat. Jesse Eisenberg, Mia Wasikowska, Wallace Shawn…; Richard Ayoade (SUBMARINE) directs this stylish Kafka–esque thriller about a government worker who is joined by his doppelganger.
Elysium (2013): Dir. Neill Blomkamp
Feat. Matt Damon, Jodie Foster, Sharlto Copley…; DISTRICT 9 dir. Neill Blomkamp helms this arresting sci–fi blockbuster about a dystopian earth whose underprivileged survivors dream of gaining…
Ender's Game (2013): Dir. Gavin Hood
Feat. Asa Butterfield, Harrison Ford, Hailee Steinfeld…; In the not–too–distant future, a young prodigy is charged with leading Earth's battle defense against a marauding fleet of alien…
Escape from Planet Earth (2013): Dir. Cal Brunker; An interplanetary adventurer is captured on Earth, prompting his family to mount a daring rescue mission. Serviceable family animation adventure…
Eternity (2013): Dir. Alex Galvin
Feat. Elliot Travers, Amy Tsang, Geraldine Brophy; In the near future, a police detective is investigating the most difficult case of his career – the seemingly impossible locked–room…
Europa Report (2013): Dir. Sebastián Cordero
Feat. Daniel Wu, Sharlto Copley, Christian Camargo…; A team of astronauts embark on a fraught mission to Jupiter's moon Europa in this tense, realist space thriller, made in collaboration with NASA.
G.I Joe: Retaliation (2013): Dir. Jon M. Chu
Feat. Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson, Channing Tatum, Bruce Willis…; The Joes strap up for another explosive slug fest with arch enemies Cobra in this dumb–fun sequel to the toy franchise blockbuster.
Gravity (2013): Dir. Alfonso Cuaron
Feat. Sandra Bullock, George Clooney; Is GRAVITY the first really new film of the 21st Century? I hazard it may be. It is certainly the first to harness the bleeding edge of the current…
Hard To Be A God (2013): Dir. Aleksey German
Feat. Leonid Yarmolnik; A group of scientists are sent to the planet Arkanar to give aid to the local civilization, which is in the Medieval phase of its own history, in…
Harlock: Space Pirate (2013): Dir. Shinji Aramaki
Feat. Shun Oguri, Yu Aoi; An epic 3D–animated space opera based on the adventures of iconic anime character Captain Harlock, a space revolutionary determined to help…
Her (2013): Dir. Spike Jonze
Feat. Joaquin Phoenix, Scarlett Johansson, Rooney Mara…; Joaquin Phoenix plays a lonely divorcee who finds himself falling in love with 'Samantha', the artificial intelligence behind a new computer…
Host, The (2013): Dir. Andrew Niccol
Feat. Saoirse Ronan, Diane Kruger, Max Irons; Saoirse Ronan plays a young woman who is taken possession of by a sympathetic alien host in the science–fiction romance from the pen of…
How I Live Now (2013): Dir. Kevin MacDonald
Feat. Saoirse Ronan, Tom Holland, George MacKay…; This edgy young–adult fantasy finds teenager Saoirse Ronan, sent to the English countryside to stay with relatives, coping with the outbreak of…
Hunger Games: Catching Fire (2013): Dir. Francis Lawrence
Feat. Jennifer Lawrence, Liam Hemsworth, Josh Hutcherson…; The victors of the Hunger Games must rally at the threat of an uprising in this blockbuster sequel to Suzanne Collins's best–selling young…
I, Frankenstein (2013): Dir. Stuart Beattie
Feat. Aaron Eckhart, Bill Nighy, Miranda Otto…; Chaotic and at times incoherent action fantasy following Frankenstein's creature Adam in the centuries old war to prevent evil demons from taking…
Iron Man 3 (2013): Dir. Shane Black, Jeff Habberstad
Feat. Robert Downey Jnr., Gwyneth Paltrow, Don Cheadle…; Robert Downey Jr. returns for a third outing as the power–suited superhero in this latest installment to the Marvel canon.
Kick-Ass 2 (2013): Dir. Jeff Wadlow
Feat. Chloe Grace Moretz, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Christopher Mintz-Plasse…; The self–made superheroes who donned caps and masks to fight crime on their own terms return for this crash–bang sequel to the hit 2010…
Last Days on Mars, The (2013): Dir. Ruairi Robinson
Feat. Liev Schreiber, Elias Koteas, Romola Garai…; An inaugural manned mission to Mars comes unstuck following an encounter with a potential new life–form in this tense sci–fi expedition…
Machine, The (2013): Dir. Caradog W. James
Feat. Caity Lotz, Toby Stephens, Sam Hazeldine…; Experiments towards a more advanced, self–aware artificial intelligence go wrong in this speculative sci–fi thriller. May lack finesse in…
Man of Steel (2013): Dir. Zack Snyder
Feat. Henry Cavill, Amy Adams, Michael Shannon…; Zack Snyder stylishly reboots the dormant Superman franchise with this moody re–imagining of the origins of Clark Kent.
Mindscape (Anna) (2013): Dir. Jorge Dorado
Feat. Mark Strong, Taissa Farmiga, Brian Cox…; Psychological thriller set in the near future, where a 'memory detective' is tasked with entering the mind of a troubled 16–year–old girl…
Mortal Instruments: City of Bones (2013): Dir. Harald Zwart
Feat. Lily Collins, Jamie Campbell Bower, Kevin Zegers…; A teenage girl joins a league of demon slayers in this dark New York–set fantasy, another epic tween franchise in the making. Based on the…
Nowhere Boys (TV Series) (2013): Feat. Darci McDonald, Dougie Baldwin, Joel Lok…; Australian fantasy action–adventure series that follows four teenage boys who get lost in the forest and discover, when they return home, that…
Oblivion (2013): Dir. Joseph Kosinski
Feat. Tom Cruise, Morgan Freeman, Olga Kurylenko…; Tom Cruise's isolated existence as a drone repairman patrolling a decimated earth is disturbed by the arrival of a mysterious woman via a crash…
Orphan Black - Season 1 (TV Series) (2013): Feat. Tatiana Maslany, Dylan Bruce, Jordan Gavaris; This thought–provoking sci–fi thriller conflates big ideas in morals and ethics with an absorbing plot centred on a con–artist who…
Pacific Rim (2013): Dir. Guillermo Del Toro
Feat. Charlie Hunnam, Idris Elba, Rinko Kikuchi…; Guillermo Del Toro injects some bravado and visual panache into this otherwise knuckleheaded live–action cartoon about a team of robot pilots…
Plus One (+1) (2013): Dir. Dennis Iliadis
Feat. Rhys Wakefield, Logan Miller, Ashley Hinshaw; Mind–bending sci–fi with three college friends attending the biggest party of the year, where a mysterious phenomenon disrupts the night,…
R.I.P.D (2013): Dir. Robert Schwentke
Feat. Jeff Bridges, Ryan Reynolds, Kevin Bacon…; This big budget flop is a lot of fun on its own terms: a carefree, unpretentious shoot–em–up about deceased detectives who project the…
Real (2013): Dir. Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Feat. Takeru Sato, Haruka Ayase, Joe Odagiri…; A misstep, though an interesting one, from dir. Kiyoshi Kurosawa (CURE), here crafting an uneven story of a grieving man who employs a neurosurgical…
Riddick (2013): Dir. David Twohy
Feat. Vin Diesel, Karl Urban, Katee Sackhoff…; This third 'chronicle' in the Riddick saga satisfyingly turns the clock back to what made original film, PITCH BLACK, a cult hit. Still pretty…
Sharknado (2013): Dir. Anthony C. Ferrante
Feat. Ian Ziering, Tara Reid, John Heard; An irrational internet sensation, this Z–grade disaster movie has gained unlikely cult status on the back of its has–been casting (Tara…
Snowpiercer (2013): Dir. Joon-ho Bong
Feat. Chris Evans, Jamie Bell, John Hurt…; Korean maestro Bong Joon–ho's English language debut is a breakneck sci–fi thriller set on a perpetual motion train carrying the last…
Star Trek - Into Darkness (Star Trek XII) (2013): Dir. J.J. Abrams
Feat. Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto, Benedict Cumberbatch…; More of the same is a good thing in the case of J.J. Abrams' hit Star Trek reboot, with this fast–moving sequel centred on a formidable foe…
These Final Hours (2013): Dir. Zak Hilditch
Feat. Jessica De Gouw, Sarah Snook, Daniel Henshall; Human drama is foregrounded in this engrossing vision of the last days on earth, centred on a self–absorbed man whose plans to attend an 'end…
Thor: The Dark World (2013): Dir. Alan Taylor
Feat. Chris Hemsworth, Natalie Portman, Tom Hiddleston…; In this predictably bombastic sequel, the action relocates from Earth to the Nine Realms, where the Norse God must team up with nemesis Loki…
Under the Dome (TV Series) (2013): Feat. Mike Vogel, Rachelle Lefevre, Dean Norris…; Solid, if at times silly sci–fi mystery series from the pen of Stephen King, which centres on an unexplained 'dome' isolating an entire town…
Under the Skin (2013): Dir. Jonathan Glazer
Feat. Scarlett Johansson; Jonathan Glazer (SEXY BEAST, BIRTH) directs screen siren Scarlett Johansson in this startlingly original sci–fi thriller about an alien…
Upstream Color (2013): Dir. Shane Carruth
Feat. Amy Seimetz, Shane Carruth; Shane Carruth follows up his cult time travel indie PRIMER with this immersive and abstract tale of two strangers whose lives are intertwined by a…
Utopia (TV Series) (2013): Feat. Fiona OShaughnessy, Alexandra Roach, Nathan Stewart-Jarrett…; An imaginative, visually striking dystopian thriller centred on a group of people who believe a conspiracy theory is hidden within a graphic novel…
Wolverine, The (2013): Dir. James Mangold
Feat. Hugh Jackman, Tao Okamoto, Rila Fukushima…; Hugh Jackman returns as X–Men's cult anti–hero in this Japan–set saga centred on deadly samurai and an old nemesis.
World War Z (2013): Dir. Marc Forster
Feat. Brad Pitt, Mireille Enos, Daniella Kertesz…; Brad Pitt plays a UN worker fights to stop a zombie virus infecting the entire human race in this apocalyptic blockbuster.
World's End, The (2013): Dir. Edgar Wright
Feat. Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, Martin Freeman…; The stars and director of SHAUN OF THE DEAD and HOT FUZZ reteam for this third installment of their "Cornetto Trilogy", this time centering around a…
Zero Theorem, The (2013): Dir. Terry Gilliam
Feat. Christoph Waltz, Mélanie Thierry, David Thewlis…; Terry Gilliam presents this complex but colourful existential meditation. A reclusive computer genius has been given the task of finally proving that…
Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter (2012): Dir. Timur Bekmambetov
Feat. Benjamin Walker, Rufus Sewell, Dominic Cooper…; The Russian alchemist behind vampiric trilogy NIGHT WATCH directs this spectacular bastardization of the Lincoln legend, here re–imagined as a…
Amazing Spider-Man, The (2012): Dir. Marc Webb
Feat. Andrew Garfield, Emma Stone, Rhys Ifans…; Andrew Garfield inherits the role of boy superhero with spider–like superpowers in this character driven reboot of the popular blockbuster…
Antiviral (2012): Dir. Brandon Cronenberg
Feat. Caleb Landry Jones, Sarah Gadon, Douglas Smith…; Brandon Cronenberg has made an object lesson in intelligent low budget horror. In the near future, our obsession with celebrity will have become so…
Arrow (TV Series) (2012): Feat. Stephen Amell, Katie Cassidy; The adventures of DC Comics' costumed crime–fighter Green Arrow make for a handsome escapist TV series, based on the secret vigilante deeds of…
Astronaut: The Last Push (2012): Dir. Eric Hayden
Feat. Khary Payton; A small, but impressively formed space odyssey about an astronaut whose partner is killed and their mission to Jupiter's Europa moon is aborted. His…
Avengers, The (Marvel's Avengers) (2012): Dir. Joss Whedon
Feat. Robert Downey Jnr., Chris Evans, Scarlett Johansson…; Barnstorming blockbuster with Marvel's premier superheroes joining forces to combat Thor's evil brother Loki and his alien army. Skilfully helmed…
Batman: The Dark Knight Returns (2012): Dir. Jay Oliva
Feat. Peter Weller; Another quality superhero animation set in the DC universe, this time adaptaing the first two issues of Frank Miller's legendary 'Dark Knight…
Batman: The Dark Knight Rises (2012): Dir. Christopher Nolan
Feat. Christian Bale, Gary Oldman, Tom Hardy…; Christopher Nolan directs with bombast and brilliance this long–awaited finale to the "Dark Knight" trilogy, in which Christian Bale's aging…
Battleship (2012): Dir. Peter Berg
Feat. Taylor Kitsch, Alexander Skarsgard, Rihanna …; The might of the US Navy take on marauding alien invaders in this belly–flop of a Hollywood blockbuster, apparently based on the popular Hasbro…
Chronicle (2012): Dir. Josh Trank
Feat. Dane DeHaan, Alex Russell, Michael B. Jordan…; Amping up the 'found–footage' concept to even dizzier heights than CLOVERFIELD, this fantasy has three teens running amok after acquiring…
Cloud Atlas (2012): Dir. Lilly Wachowski, Lana Wachowski, Tom Tykwer
Feat. Tom Hanks, Halle Berry, Jim Broadbent…; An awe–inspiring cinematic epic that adapts David Mitchell's ambitious and 'unfilmable' novel as an 'auteur blockbuster' and genuine…
Cosmopolis (2012): Dir. David Cronenberg
Feat. Robert Pattinson, Juliette Binoche, Samantha Morton…; David Cronenberg adapts Don DeLillo's post–modern novel about a billionaire asset manager whose journey via limousine across a gridlocked…
Doctor Who (Series 7) [Matt Smith] (Dr. Who) (2012): Feat. Matt Smith, Karen Gillan , Arthur Darvill …; Matt Smith is back as the eleventh Doctor, alongside the departing Karen Gillian's Amy Pond, in this latest series which promises a return to…
Doomsday Book (2012): Dir. Ji-woon Kim, Pil-Sung Yim
Feat. Doona Bae, Joon-ho Bong, Kang-woo Kim; A trilogy of short sci–fi stories imagining mass extinction on planet earth, directed by two of Korean cinema's leading lights. Oscillating…
Dredd (2012): Dir. Peter Travis
Feat. Karl Urban, Olivia Thirlby, Lena Headey…; This ultra–violent reboot of the 2000 AD comic book hero plays ups its B–movie stature to deliver a lean, mean policier less concerned…
Errors of the Human Body (2012): Dir. Eron Sheean
Feat. Michael Eklund, Karoline Herfurth, Rik Mayall; Stark, lo–fi sci–fi about an American geneticist who relocates to an isolated research facility in Dresden, Germany to continue his…
Extracted (2012): Dir. Nir Paniry
Feat. Sasha Roiz, Jenny Mollen; An inventor of a device which enables its user to experience the memories of another people becomes trapped in the mind of an suspected murderer. A…
Hunger Games, The (2012): Dir. Gary Ross
Feat. Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson, Liam Hemsworth…; A 16–year–old girl must compete in a televised tournament in which 24 teenagers from a post–apocalyptic society fight to the death…
Hypnotist, The (2012): Dir. Lasse Hallstrom
Feat. Tobias Zilliacus, Mikael Persbrandt, Lena Olin; Dir. Lasse Hallström returns to Sweden to helm this knotty thriller centred on a detective and a psychologist who team up to extract vital…
Iron Sky (2012): Dir. Timo Vuorensola
Feat. Julia Dietze, Christopher Kirby, Götz Otto…; A fun, irreverent B–movie romp hatched from a premise that places the Nazis in hiding on the dark side of the moon, poised to strike earth…
John Carter (2012): Dir. Andrew Stanton
Feat. Taylor Kitsch, Lynn Collins, Samantha Morton…; Edgar Rice Burroughs's classic sci–fi novel is the basis for this hulking intergalactic adventure extravagantly financed by Disney studios,…
John Dies at the End (2012): Dir. Don Coscarelli
Feat. Rob Mayes, Chase Williamson, Paul Giamatti…; Two college dropouts–cum–amateur exorcists must save the world from an inter–dimensional invasion caused by a powerful new drug…
Journey 2: The Mysterious Island (2012): Dir. Brad Peyton
Feat. Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson, Michael Caine, Josh Hutcherson…; The Rock and friends return for this hammy, high–wire sequel to JOURNEY TO THE CENTRE OF THE EARTH, with the intrepid explorers taking on the…
Lockout (2012): Dir. James Mather, Stephen St. Leger
Feat. Guy Pearce, Maggie Grace, Peter Stormare; Guy Pearce chews the scenery in this enjoyable piece of space junk, about a hard–as–nails convict who must escape the confines of a…
Looper (2012): Dir. Rian Johnson
Feat. Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Bruce Willis, Emily Blunt…; A top–drawer time–traveling actioner, following a hired gun whose job to assassinate targets transported from the future is complicated…
Lord of the Elves (Clash of the Empires) (2012): Dir. Joseph J. Lawson
Feat. Christopher Judge, Ling Bai; A bargain bin knock off of LORD OF THE RINGS featuring has–been actors, lame–ass direction, and a cast of Thai midgets, this is best…
Men in Black 3 (2012): Dir. Barry Sonnenfeld
Feat. Will Smith, Tommy Lee Jones, Josh Brolin…; Will Smith and co. return to inspired form for this third installment of the popular sci–fi comedy about a black–suited government agency…
Prometheus (2012): Dir. Ridley Scott
Feat. Noomi Rapace, Charlize Theron, Michael Fassbender…; Ridley Scott's return to the ALIEN franchise results in his most visually enthralling film since BLADE RUNNER, with outstanding art direction and…
Red Dwarf (TV Series) - Series 10 (Red Dwarf X) (2012): Feat. Chris Barrie, Craig Charles, Danny John-Jules…; The first full series of RED DWARF since 1999, this continues the cult British sci–fi comedy's revival following the recent special, BACK TO EARTH.…
Resident Evil: Retribution (2012): Dir. Paul Anderson
Feat. Milla Jovovich, Michelle Rodriguez, Bingbing Li…; Further adventures in the undead, with Milla Jovovich continuing to kick zombie ass with all the subtlety of a sledgehammer.
Revolution (TV Series) (2012): Feat. Billy Burke, Giancarlo Esposito, David Lyons…; A post–apocalyptic world in which electricity no longer exists is the setting for this energetic survivalist drama. Moving at full–clip,…
Robot and Frank (Robot & Frank) (2012): Dir. Jake Schreier
Feat. Frank Langella, James Marsden, Liv Tyler…; Sentimental futurism finds aging Frank Langella search for companionship and purpose in (late) life in the robot servant purchased for him by his…
Safety Not Guaranteed (2012): Dir. Colin Trevorrow
Feat. Aubrey Plaza, Mark Duplass, Jake Johnson…; Winningly oddball 'true' tale set in Seattle that follows a writer and two colleagues on a flakey assignment to interview a man who placed a…
Seeking a Friend For the End of the World (2012): Dir. Lorene Scafaria
Feat. Steve Carell, Keira Knightley, Melanie Lynskey…; Unlikely partners Steve Carell and Keira Knightley gravitate towards each another as the end of the world approaches in this most unusual…
Sinbad (TV Series) (2012): Feat. Elliot Knight, Naveen Andrews, Timothy Spall…; Spiffy swashbuckling version of the Sinbad legend harnesses the best of blockbuster–style action and above–average special effects to…
Total Recall (2012): Dir. Len Wiseman
Feat. Colin Farrell, Kate Beckinsale, Jessica Biel…; A ramped up version of Philip K. Dick's classic sci–fi short, with Colin Farrell replacing Arnie as the unlucky recipient of a 'virtual…
Twilight: Breaking Dawn Part 2 (2012): Dir. Bill Condon
Feat. Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson, Taylor Lautner…; Finally, the colossal vampire franchise meets its maker with this concluding chapter, with Bella and Edward fighting to protect their daughter from…
Underworld: Awakening (2012): Dir. Måns Mårlind, Björn Stein
Feat. Kate Beckinsale, Stephen Rea, Charles Dance; When the human race wages war on both the Vampire and Lycan species, leather–clad warrioress Kate Beckinsale goes to battle in this routine…
Upside Down (2012): Dir. Juan Solanas
Feat. Kirsten Dunst, Jim Sturgess, Timothy Spall; Two star–crossed lovers separated by opposite worlds attempt to overcome interplanetary boundaries in this head–turning sci–fi…
Watch, The (2012): Dir. Akiva Schaffer
Feat. Ben Stiller, Vince Vaughn, Jonah Hill…; Four suburban blockheads form a neighbour watch group when they discover an alien invasion is upon them in this ballsy buddy comedy with a…
Wrath of the Titans (2012): Dir. Jonathan Liebesman
Feat. Sam Worthington, Liam Neeson, Ralph Fiennes…; Perseus (Worthington) returns to slay more Greek demigods in this bombastic sequel to the recent CGI–laden remake of the 1981 fantasy film.
33D Invader, The (2011): Dir. Man Kei Chin
Feat. Macy Wu; A trio of socially inept dweebs hit the jackpot when they encounter a buxom beauty sent from the future; her mission to return to the year 2046…
Adjustment Bureau, The (2011): Dir. George Nolfi
Feat. Matt Damon, Emily Blunt, John Slattery…; Matt Damon finds that his attraction to a woman (Blunt) may have altered his fate, as set out by a mysterious government agency, in this intriguing,…
Alphas (TV Series) (2011): Feat. David Strathairn, Ryan Cartwright, Warren Christie; David Strathairn leads this X–MEN–esque series about a group of people with superhuman powers – known as "alphas" – who are…
Another Earth (2011): Dir. Mike Cahill
Feat. Brit Marling, William Mapother; The appearance of a parallel Earth hidden behind the Sun poses deep personal and philosophical questions for a troubled student in this superlative…
Apollo 18 (2011): Dir. Gonzalo López-Gallego
Feat. Ryan Robbins, Warren Christie, Lloyd Owen; BLAIR WITCH in space! Top secret footage reveals why NASA never returned to the moon. Derivative and progressively silly, but dir.…
Attack the Block (2011): Dir. Joe Cornish
Feat. Jodie Whittaker, John Boyega, Alex Esmail…; A gang of teenage delinquents rally to defend their tower block from alien invaders in this quick–witted urban sci–fi comedy that…
Battle: Los Angeles (2011): Dir. Jonathan Liebesman
Feat. Aaron Eckhart, Michelle Rodriguez, Bridget Moynahan…; Noisy, militaristic sci–fi follows a platoon of Marines as they attempt to combat an alien invasion. Film's sole novelty is its marriage of…
Black Mirror (TV Series) (2011-2013): Feat. Rory Kinnear, Lindsay Duncan, Rupert Everett…; A brilliantly conceived anthology of science fiction stories in the tradition of THE TWILIGHT ZONE, this compelling British series explores the…
Captain America: The First Avenger (2011): Dir. Joe Johnston
Feat. Chris Evans, Hayley Atwell, Tommy Lee Jones…; Marvel's iconic superhero is reborn in this big, brash blockbuster, about a feeble military reject who is transformed into an ultimate solider by a…
Children Who Chase Lost Voices (Journey to Agartha) (2011): Dir. Makoto Shinkai; This eye–watering love letter to the godfather of anime, Hayao Miyazaki, not only replicates, but in many ways surpasses Studio Ghibli's…
Conan the Barbarian (2011): Dir. Marcus Nispel
Feat. Jason Momoa, Stephen Lang, Rachel Nichols…; Meat–axe revival of Arnold Schwarzenegger's B–movie breakthrough, which mashes modern CG effects with a low–rent 80s sensibility…
Cowboys and Aliens (2011): Dir. Jon Favreau
Feat. Daniel Craig, Harrison Ford, Olivia Wilde…; Jon Favreau (IRON MAN) directs this high concept alien invasion western, about a ragtag posse of cowboys who must stand up to an extraterrestrial…
Darkest Hour, The (2011): Dir. Chris Gorak
Feat. Emile Hirsch, Olivia Thirlby, Max Minghella…; Five young adults find themselves stranded in Moscow on the eve of a global alien invasion in this hokey sci–fi thriller produced by Timur…
Doctor Who (Series 6) [Matt Smith] (Dr. Who) (2011): Feat. Matt Smith, Karen Gillan , Arthur Darvill …; Matt Smith is back as the eleventh Doctor, alongside Karen Gillian 's Amy Pond, as they investigate the mysterious Silence that destroyed the TARDIS…
Eva (2011): Dir. Kike Maillo
Feat. Daniel Bruhl, Marta Etura, Alberto Ammann…; Sensitive Sci–fi drama stars Daniel Brühl as a scientist grappling with the task and the ethics of creating a line of robot children.
Fades, The (TV Series) (2011): Feat. Iain de Caestecker, Joe Dempsie, Natalie Dormer…; Adventurous BBC supernatural thriller concerns the apocalyptic visions of an English teenager, who comes to learn that the dead spirits only he can…
Falling Skies (TV Series) (2011): Feat. Noah Wyle, Moon Bloodgood, Will Patton; The battle for earth between alien invaders and the human resistance is given an exciting, family–focused rendition by producer Steven…
Gantz 2: Perfect Answer (2011): Dir. Shinsuke Sato
Feat. Ken'ichi Matsuyama, Kazunari Ninomiya; Satisfying finale to the Gantz universe sees protagonists Kei and Masaru edge closer to their kill target, which will liberate them from their…
Green Hornet, The (2011): Dir. Michel Gondry
Feat. Seth Rogen, Jay Chou, Cameron Diaz…; French auteur Michel Gondry directs this blockbuster spin–off of the classic crime fighting TV series about a scruffy millionaire (Rogen) and…
Green Lantern (2011): Dir. Martin Campbell
Feat. Ryan Reynolds, Blake Lively, Peter Sarsgaard…; Superhero spectacle, with Ryan Reynolds as a test pilot granted a mystical green ring that bestows him with otherworldly powers, as well as…
I Am Number Four (2011): Dir. D. J. Caruso
Feat. Alex Pettyfer, Dianna Agron, Timothy Olyphant…; Youthful sci–fi thriller centred on a teenage fugitive who, in hiding from mysterious forces, settles in a small Ohio town.
In Time (2011): Dir. Andrew Niccol
Feat. Justin Timberlake, Amanda Seyfried, Cillian Murphy…; More high–concept futurism from ex–pat Kiwi Andrew Niccol (GATTACA, S1M0NE) finds Justin Timberlake on the lam in a world where units of…
Limitless (2011): Dir. Neil Burger
Feat. Bradley Cooper, Robert De Niro, Abbie Cornish…; Dynamic thriller in the hyper–reality genre that follows a struggling writer who discovers a top–secret brain–enhancing drug which…
Love (2011): Dir. William Eubank
Feat. Gunner Wright; A cerebral, one–man science fiction odyssey which contemplates the difficulties of deep space isolation, and more portentously, the need for…
Mars Needs Moms (2011): Dir. Simon Wells
Feat. Seth Green, Joan Cusack, Dan Fogler; A young kid comes to appreciate just how much he needs his mother when she is kidnapped by Martians, who plan to steal her 'mom–ness' for their…
Melancholia (2011): Dir. Lars Von Trier
Feat. Kirsten Dunst, Charlotte Gainsbourg, John Alexander…; A wedding party celebrating the marriage of a young couple is overshadowed by the threat of a planet on a collision course with Earth in this…
Paul (2011): Dir. Greg Mottola
Feat. Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, Seth Rogen…; The creators of SHAUN OF THE DEAD and HOT FUZZ make a beeline for America's UFO heartland in this comedy about two sci–fi nerds who befriend a…
Perfect Sense (2011): Dir. David Mackenzie
Feat. Ewan McGregor, Eva Green; The director and star of YOUNG ADAM return for this unusual take on the pandemic sub–genre, set in their Scottish homeland. Centred around…
Prophets of Science Fiction (TV Series) (2011): Somewhat exaggerated series produced and hosted by Ridley Scott that depicts numerous occasions when science fiction authors have predicted and…
Real Steel (2011): Dir. Shawn Levy
Feat. Hugh Jackman, Evangeline Lilly, Anthony Mackie…; Hugh Jackman seeks redemption as a boxing trainer for an all–robot fighting league in this silly, but triumphant sci–fi sports movie.
Rise of the Planet of the Apes (2011): Dir. Rupert Wyatt
Feat. James Franco, Freida Pinto, John Lithgow…; A thought–provoking prequel to the PLANET OF THE APES legacy, set during the present day where a genetically–enhanced chimpanzee uses its…
Sanctum (2011): Dir. Alister Grierson
Feat. Richard Roxburgh, Ioan Gruffudd; James Cameron–produced underwater thriller, about a team of divers who encounter more than they bargained for during an expedition to an…
Sector 7 (2011): Dir. Ji-hun Kim
Feat. Ji-won Ha, Sung-kee Ahn; Produced by the director of tidal wave catastrophe HAEUNDAE, this big budget monster movie (Korea's first in 3D) lurches between hokey character…
Skin I Live In, The (2011): Dir. Pedro Almodovar
Feat. Antonio Banderas, Elena Anaya, Marisa Paredes…; Over twenty years after their last collaboration, a gracefully middle–aged Antonio Banderas returns for Spanish maestro Pedro Almodovar to play…
Sound of My Voice (2011): Dir. Zal Batmanglij
Feat. Brit Marling, Christopher Denham, Nicole Vicius; A couple working on a documentary exposé find their skepticism tested as they submit themselves to a rigorous indoctrination into a secretive cult…
Source Code (2011): Dir. Duncan Jones
Feat. Jake Gyllenhaal, Michelle Monaghan, Vera Farmiga…; The dir. of MOON helms this smart sci–fi thriller, about a soldier (Gyllenhaal) thrust ‘neurologically’ into the shoes of a dead eyewitness…
Sucker Punch (2011): Dir. Zack Snyder
Feat. Emily Browning, Abbie Cornish, Jena Malone…; The dir. of 300 helms this male adolescent fantasy based around a group of nubile young girls who reimagine the mental asylum they've been committed…
Super 8 (2011): Dir. J.J. Abrams
Feat. Kyle Chandler, Elle Fanning, Riley Griffiths…; A young group of film–loving friends witness a train crash and suspect it was not an accident and their suspicions are fueled by a series of…
Terra Nova (TV Series) (2011): Feat. Jason O'Mara, Shelley Conn; Short–lived sci–fi drama series about a 22nd Century family who escape their modern dystopia by returning to an outpost in the Cretaceous…
Thing, The (2011): Dir. Matthijs van Heijningen Jr.
Feat. Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Joel Edgerton, Ulrich Thomsen…; A fairly perfunctory, though by no means terrible prequel to John Carpenter's sci–fi classic, centred on a young paleontologist (Winstead)…
Thor (2011): Dir. Kenneth Branagh
Feat. Chris Hemsworth, Anthony Hopkins, Natalie Portman…; Engaging superhero escapism with The God of Thunder banished to earth where his skills with a hammer soon come in handy. Flitting between godly…
Transformers - Dark of the Moon (Transformers 3) (2011): Dir. Michael Bay
Feat. Shia LaBeouf, Josh Duhamel, John Turturro…; The brashest of blockbuster franchises rolls on seemingly eternally, but this one's at least an improvement of the execrable REVENGE OF THE FALLEN.…
Twilight: Breaking Dawn Part 1 (2011): Dir. Bill Condon
Feat. Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson, Taylor Lautner…; Penultimate installment of the Gothic fantasy phenomenon teases out the conclusion to the romantic saga in lucrative and popular fashion with Bella…
X-Men: First Class (2011): Dir. Matthew Vaughn
Feat. James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender, Jennifer Lawrence…; The X–MEN juggernaut rolls on, benefiting from a spring clean of the principal cast, in this hugely entertaining origin movie set against the…
Batman: Under the Red Hood (2010): Dir. Brandon Vietti; The 8th stand alone Batman feature film in the "DC Universe Animated Original Movies" series, with Batman going up against a mysterious vigilante…
Beyond the Black Rainbow (2010): Dir. Panos Cosmatos
Feat. Eva Allan, Michael Rogers, Scott Hylands; This startling cult–film–in–the–making concerns the escape attempt of a sedated prisoner from a futuristic commune. An…
Black Panther (TV Series) (2010): Dir. Reginald Hudlin
Feat. Djimon Hounsou, Jill Scott; Motion comic TV series based on the popular Marvel superhero. The original Black Panther is assassinated and his son T'challa assumes the name, along…
Book Of Eli, The (2010): Dir. Albert Hughes, Allen Hughes
Feat. Denzel Washington, Gary Oldman, Mila Kunis…; Post–apocalyptic fable with attitude sees Denzel Washington play a hard–bitten prophet who must fight his way across America in order to…
Caprica (TV Series) (2010): Feat. Eric Stoltz, Esai Morales, Paula Malcomson; This short–lived but worthwhile prequel to the Battlestar Galactica universe is set 58 years prior to the events of the popular rebooted…
City Under Siege (2010): Dir. Benny Chan
Feat. Aaron Kwok, Colin Chou, Wu Jing…; One–of–a–kind Hong Kong mash–up has a group of criminals gaining super powers after being infected with a biological weapon,…
Clash of the Titans (2010): Dir. Louis Leterrier
Feat. Sam Worthington, Liam Neeson, Ralph Fiennes…; Beefy, special effects–saturated blockbuster reworks the 1981 fantasy film (and Ray Harryhausen’s beloved stop motion animations), based on…
Crazies, The (2010): Dir. Breck Eisner
Feat. Timothy Olyphant, Radha Mitchell; George Romero's low budget classic gets a flashy, though ultimately needless makeover angled at the Iraq war set, with Radha Mitchell and Timothy…
Doctor Who (TV Specials) [Matt Smith] (The Day of the Doctor; The Time of the Doctor; The Snowmen; The Doctor, The Widow and The Wardrobe; A Christmas Carol) (2010-2013): Dir. Nick Hurran
Feat. Matt Smith, Jenna-Louise Coleman, David Tennant…; Matt Smith and David Tennant combine for this high–end 50th anniversary special. Shot in 3–D and screened in cinemas upon its release,…
Gantz (2010): Dir. Shinsuke Sato
Feat. Ken'ichi Matsuyama, Kazunari Ninomiya; Part one of a riveting, action–packed remake of the ultra–violent anime series, in which a group of deceased individuals must engage in a…
Halo Legends (2010): Spun–off from the popular X–Box video game franchise, this eight episode series explores the mythology and back–story of the HALO…
Haunters (2010): Dir. Min-suk Kim; Two brooding pretty boys with unexplained superpowers battle it out in what is a familiar, if distinctly Korean spin on the anarchic superhero…
Haven (TV Series) (2010): Feat. Emily Rose, Lucas Bryant, Eric Balfour; An FBI agent finds herself inextricably linked to the paranormal activity in the fictional north eastern town of Haven, Maine, in this eccentric…
Inception (2010): Dir. Christopher Nolan
Feat. Leonardo DiCaprio, Marion Cotillard, Joseph Gordon-Levitt…; Hitmaker Christopher Nolan (THE DARK KNIGHT) conjures up yet another thrilling, immaculately shot blockbuster, starring Leonardo DiCaprio as the…
Iron Man 2 (2010): Dir. Jon Favreau
Feat. Robert Downey Jnr., Don Cheadle, Scarlett Johansson…; Spiffy, if routine blockbuster sequel finds Robert Downey Jr. reveling in his new–found celebrity as Iron Man while attracting the unwanted…
Kick-Ass (2010): Dir. Matthew Vaughn
Feat. Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Chloe Grace Moretz, Nicolas Cage…; Adapted from the kick–ass graphic novel, this gleeful bone–cruncher portrays a world in which wannabe superheroes don costumes and fight…
Last Airbender, The (2010): Dir. M. Night Shyamalan
Feat. Noah Ringer, Dev Patel, Nicola Peltz…; Based on the weirdly popular Nickelodeon series, this cheesy live–action version from know–it–all director M. Night Shyamalan was…
Legion (2010): Dir. Scott Charles Stewart
Feat. Paul Bettany, Dennis Quaid, Lucas Black…; Enjoyable apocalyptic hokum with diner patrons caught in a crossfire between gun–toting celestials on the eve of Armageddon. Paul Bettany plays…
Loups=Garous (2010): Dir. Junichi Fujisaku; Confined to her home by a deadly virus, a shy 14–year–old girl ventures into the outside world when one of her online friends goes…
Monsters (2010): Dir. Gareth Edwards
Feat. Whitney Able, Scoot McNairy; Hailed as "this year's DISTRICT 9", this is another enterprising alien invasion film that similarly belies its independent budget (and spirit) with…
Never Let Me Go (2010): Dir. Mark Romanek
Feat. Keira Knightley, Carey Mulligan, Andrew Garfield…; Faithful adaptation of the Kazuo Ishiguro's 'unfilmable' novel that follows the relationship of three childhood friends who are raised as 'donors' in…
People vs. George Lucas, The (2010): Dir. Alexandre O. Philippe; Rabid Star Wars devotees take umbrage to George Lucas's tainting of the classic sci–fi trilogy's legacy – namely, his much–maligned…
Phasma Ex Machina (2010): Dir. Matt Osterman
Feat. Sasha Andreev; A grieving college drop–out left to care for his younger brother contrives to build a machine that will bring back his deceased parents –…
Predators (2010): Dir. Nimrod Antal
Feat. Adrien Brody, Topher Grace, Alice Braga…; Chosen for their ability to kill without conscience, a group of killers must survive an alien race of predators that have set out to target them as…
Repo Men (2010): Dir. Miguel Sapochnik
Feat. Jude Law, Forest Whitaker, Alice Braga…; In a derivative future–world where artificial organs are readily sold and repossessed, this cocksure shoot em up pits a debt–riddled repo…
Resident Evil: Afterlife (2010): Dir. Paul Anderson
Feat. Milla Jovovich, Ali Larter, Kim Coates…; Bloody fourth installment has Jovovich join a group of survivors who want to relocate to the mysterious, but supposedly unharmed safe haven, known…
Skyline (2010): Dir. Colin Strause, Greg Strause
Feat. Eric Balfour, Donald Faison, Scottie Thompson…; Resourceful low–budget alien invasion film has bright lights appear all over Los Angeles, mesmerizing the citizens of the city while luring…
Space Battleship Yamato (2010): Dir. Takashi Yamazaki
Feat. Takuya Kimura, Meisa Kuroki; Hulking sci–fi blockbuster sees the survivors of a radioactive Earth pin their hopes on a massive spaceship outfitted with all the…
Terry Pratchett's Going Postal (2010): Dir. Jon Jones
Feat. Richard Coyle, David Suchet, Claire Foy…; Lavish adaptation of a Terry Pratchett novel set once again in the discworld universe. A convicted conman gets a fate worse than death, in this case…
This is Not My Life (TV Series) (2010): Dir. Robert Sarkies
Feat. Charles Mesure, Tania Nolan, Ariana Brunet…; Set in a fictional New Zealand town in the 2020s, this high–end Kiwi production runs with a number of well–worn science–fiction…
Troll Hunter (2010): Dir. André Øvredal
Feat. Otto Jespersen; Three college kids who set out to make a documentary about illegal bear hunters encounter more than bargained for in this thrilling Norwegian…
Tron: Legacy (2010): Dir. Joseph Kosinski
Feat. Jeff Bridges, Garrett Hedlund, Olivia Wilde…; Eye–popping sequel to Disney's digital effects landmark of the eighties, with Jeff Bridges reemerging as the arcade whiz trapped in an…
Womb (2010): Dir. Benedek Fliegauf
Feat. Eva Green, Matt Smith, Lesley Manville…; Thoughtful drama in which a woman's overwhelming grief over her dead lover leads her to birth his clone. Languidly paced and loaded with Oedipal…
2012 (2009): Dir. Roland Emmerich
Feat. John Cusack, Amanda Peet, Thandiwe Newton…; Oh the humanity! Doomsday specialist Roland Emmerich renders the disaster movie redundant with this senseless, all–or–nothing…
9 (Nine) (2009): Dir. Shane Acker
Feat. Christopher Plummer, Martin Landau, John C. Reilly…; Successfully expanded from an Oscar–nominated animated short, this quite extra–ordinary fable pits nine thumb–sized creations…
Alice (TV Mini-Series) (2009): Dir. Nick Willing
Feat. Caterina Scorsone, Andrew Lee Potts, Matt Frewer…; Modernist re–imagining of the Lewis Carroll classic with wonderland portrayed as a dystopian netherworld that sucks the emotions from the 'real…
Alien Trespass (2009): Dir. R.W. Goodwin
Feat. Eric McCormack, Robert Patrick, Dan Lauria; Old school invaders–from–space movie has prissy scientist McCormack 'inhabited' by friendly alien Urp and used to track down…
Avatar (2009): Dir. James Cameron
Feat. Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldana, Sigourney Weaver…; James Cameron’s record–shattering 3D epic is a woozy mix of allegory and special effects (developed at Wellington's Weta studios), set on a…
Battlestar Galactica (TV Series) - The Plan (2009): Dir. Edward James Olmos
Feat. Tricia Helfer, Edward James Olmos, Grace Park…; Feature length installment of the acclaimed BATTLESTAR GALACTICA series, telling the story of the attack on the human colonies through the eyes of…
Ben 10: Alien Swarm (2009): Dir. Alex Winter
Feat. Ryan Kelley, Galadriel Stineman; Second installment of the BEN 10 live action series follows Ben, a boy with super–hero powers granted by a magical wristwatch, go on a quest to…
Black Lightning (Chernaya Molniya) (2009): Dir. Dmitriy Kisselev, Aleksandr Voytinskiy
Feat. Grigoriy Dobrygin, Ekaterina Vilkova, Viktor Verzhbitskiy; Timur Bekmambetov–produced action–adventure, about a poor Russian student who's gifted a used car by his father for his birthday.…
Blood - The Last Vampire (2009): Dir. Chris Nahon
Feat. Gianna Jun, Allison Miller, Liam Cunningham; Nonsensical 'live action' movie of the popular anime sees a surly demon–killing teenage vampire inserted in a military school in order to catch…
Cargo (2009): Dir. Ivan Engler, Ralph Etter
Feat. Anna Katharina Schwabroh; A slavish, though impressively conceived sci–fi on a shoestring, centred on the voyage of a cargo ship with a mysterious consignment on board.…
Day of the Triffids (TV Mini-Series) (2009): Dir. Nick Copus
Feat. Dougray Scott, Joely Richardson, Eddie Izzard…; This second–stab by the BBC excitingly updates John Wyndham's cautionary sci–fi novel with a big budget and spectacular special effects.…
District 13: Ultimatum (2009): Dir. Patrick Alessandrin
Feat. Cyril Raffaelli, David Belle; Cash–in sequel to the Luc Besson–produced sci–fi thriller whose action was shaped creatively around Parkour, an athletic pursuit…
District 9 (2009): Dir. Neill Blomkamp
Feat. Sharlto Copley, Jason Cope, David James; Superb sci–fi blockbuster from first–time writer/director Blomkamp, set in an alternate–reality Johannesburg where an…
Doctor Who (Series 5) [Matt Smith] (Dr. Who) (2009): Feat. Matt Smith, Karen Gillan , Arthur Darvill …; Eleventh 'regeneration' of the time travelling Doctor Who puts Matt Smith in control of a brand new TARDIS, joined by new sidekick Amy Pond (Karen…
Dollhouse (TV Series) (2009): Feat. Eliza Dushku; Joss Whedon's short–lived sci–fi series set in a futuristic laboratory that assigns different tasks to its various residents, who then…
Dragonball Evolution (2009): Dir. James Wong
Feat. Justin Chatwin, Chow Yun-Fat, Emmy Rossum…; Live–action feature based on the popular anime series DRAGONBALL Z sees a young warrior compete with an evil Lord to collect seven powerful…
Eden of the East (TV Series) (2009): Dir. Kenji Kamiyama; A sprawling, suspenseful anime series in the wake of popular narrative arc serials (i.e. LOST, FLASH FORWARD), this centres on an amnesiac man who…
Family Guy: Something, Something, Something Darkside (2009): Dir. Dominic Polcino; FAMILY GUY series creator Seth MacFarlane continues his loving spoof of the STAR WARS saga in this EMPIRE STRIKES BACK–inspired sequel to 2007…
Flash Forward (TV Series) (2009): Feat. Joseph Fiennes, Dominic Monaghan, Courtney B. Vance; A high concept narrative where a mysterious event has caused nearly everyone on the planet to simultaneously lose consciousness for 137 seconds,…
Fourth Kind, The (2009): Dir. Olatunde Osunsanmi
Feat. Milla Jovovich, Elias Koteas, Will Patton…; Jittery alien abduction flick has Jovovich as an Alaskan psychotherapist whose hypnotised patients claim alien abduction. 'Documentary' footage…
Fullmetal Alchemist (TV Series) (2009): Two brothers scour a war–torn land for the Philosopher's Stone, a fabled relic which grants the ability to perform Alchemy in impossible ways.
Futurama - Into The Wild Green Yonder (2009): Dir. Peter Avanzino; Succinct feature–length animation rumoured to be the final screen outing for the FUTURAMA crew, with Fry, Leela and Bender attempting to stop a…
G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra (2009): Dir. Stephen Sommers
Feat. Channing Tatum, Marlon Wayans, Rachel Nichols…; SFX heavy live–adaptation of the popular toy franchise sees the G.I. Joe super–soldiers take on a corrupt arms dealer and the mysterious…
Gamer (2009): Dir. Mark Neveldine, Brian Taylor
Feat. Gerard Butler, Amber Valletta, Michael C. Hall…; Gerard Butler fights the system in this action orgasm, caught in a world where gamers control humans in mass–scale, multi–player online…
Gentlemen Broncos (2009): Dir. Jared Hess
Feat. Michael Angarano, Jemaine Clement, Jennifer Coolidge…; Call us biased, but Jemaine Clement is worth the price of admission alone to this zany yet well–aligned comedy from the creator of NAPOLEON…
Green Lantern: First Flight (2009): Dir. Lauren Montgomery
Feat. Christopher Meloni, Victor Garber, Tricia Helfer…; A solid animated outing for one of the lesser–known superheros of the DC Universe, The Green Lantern, who gains his powers through a magical…
Haeundae (Tidal Wave) (2009): Dir. Je-gyun Yun
Feat. Kyung-gu Sol, Ji-won Ha; Corny, king–sized Korean blockbuster of a mega–tsunami bound for Busan, and the marine geologist in a race against time to save the…
K-9 (TV Series) (2009): K9 the robotic dog and his trio of teen companions, defeat aliens, defuse evil plots and protect the world from whatever comes through the holes in…
King of Thorn (2009): Dir. Kazuyoshi Katayama; An impressively realised anime set in a world beset by a "Medusa" virus which turns its victims into stone. Both visually and conceptually complex,…
Kings (TV Series) (2009): Feat. Ian McShane, Christopher Egan, Susanna Thompson…; A bold and enjoyably bizarre drama fantasy series loosely based on the biblical story of King David (played by Chris Egan), but set in a kingdom that…
Knowing (2009): Dir. Alex Proyas
Feat. Nicolas Cage, Rose Byrne, Lara Robinson…; Sci–fi thriller focused around a teacher (Cage) who opens up a time capsule from 50 years ago which unnervingly predicts accurate dates of past…
Mega Shark vs. Giant Octopus (2009): Dir. Ace Hannah
Feat. Debbie Gibson, Lorenzo Lamas; Former pop princess Debbie Gibson plays a marine biologist charged with saving the world from a pair of super–sized sea predators. Strictly for…
Metropia (2009): Dir. Tarik Saleh
Feat. Vincent Gallo, Juliette Lewis, Udo Kier…; A minion trapped in a giant subterranean web beneath Europe attempts to escape the clutches of his dystopian existence. Upscale futurist saga is…
Misfits (TV Series) (2009): Feat. Robert Sheehan, Antonia Thomas, Lauren Socha…; "SKINS meets HEROES" is the catch–cry for this Bafta Award winning, streetwise drama about five teenagers stuck in community service, where…
Monsters vs Aliens (2009): Dir. Rob Letterman, Conrad Vernon; Rollicking animated flick in which Reese Witherspoon's "50 Ft. Woman" leads a rag–tag group of 'B–movie' monsters kept secret by the…
Moon (2009): Dir. Duncan Jones
Feat. Sam Rockwell, Kevin Spacey, Dominique McElligott…; Smartly handled science fiction from the offspring of David Bowie (aka Zowie Bowie), with Sam Rockwell playing the lone occupant of an energy…
Pandorum (2009): Dir. Christian Alvart
Feat. Dennis Quaid, Ben Foster, Cam Gigandet…; Two astronauts adrift in deep space awaken to find their vessel abandoned, possibly haunted, and with no memory of what happened. Paul…
Planet 51 (2009): Dir. Jorge Blanco, Javier Abad; Cosmic comedy sees a less–than–stellar astronaut land on supposedly uninhabited Planet 51 only to find little green people living in what…
Push (2009): Dir. Paul McGuigan
Feat. Camilla Belle, Chris Evans, Dakota Fanning…; Four telekinetic outcasts band together to expose a government conspiracy in this familiar, if crispy executed sci–fi thriller. Derives…
Race To Witch Mountain (2009): Dir. Andy Fickman
Feat. Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson, Tom Everett Scott, AnnaSophia Robb…; A flashy but bland reboot of the 1975 Disney film ESCAPE TO WITCH MOUNTAIN that sees Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson play a cab driver who inadvertently…
Red Dwarf (TV Series) - Back To Earth (2009): Feat. Richard O'Callaghan, Jeremy Swift, Sophie Winkleman; Reunion of sorts for the cast of the British sci–fi comedy, where the crew of RED DWARF land back on earth in 2009, only to discover they are…
Redline (2009): Dir. Takeshi Koike; This turbo–charged anime spectacle centred on a death–defying racing tournament is an out–and–out thrill ride, with breakneck…
Riverworld (2009): Dir. Stuart Gillard
Feat. Alan Cumming, Tahmoh Penikett, Laura Vandervoort; Welcome to Riverworld, a place of strange, watery beauty and the current abode of a fascinating cast of the recently (and…
Road, The (2009): Dir. John Hillcoat
Feat. Viggo Mortensen, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Robert Duvall…; Cormac McCarthy’s much–feted novel about the lengths a father goes to protect his son’s innocence in a post–apocalyptic wasteland is…
Robogeisha (2009): Dir. Noboru Iguchi
Feat. Aya Kiguchi; Two sisters, recruited as assassins in a robotic geisha army, fight from the inside to take down the head of an evil corporation. More cartoonish,…
S. Darko (Donnie Darko 2) (2009): Dir. Chris Fisher
Feat. Daveigh Chase, Briana Evigan, James Lafferty…; Tricky sequel to DONNIE DARKO with Donnie's sparkle–motion sister Samantha suffering apocalyptic visions and dodging meteorites. Although this…
Sengoku Basara (TV Series) (Samurai Kings) (2009): In the bloody Warring States Period, of feudal Japan, many generals fought in an endless struggle for power, but one man proved to be too big of a…
Splice (2009): Dir. Vincenzo Natali
Feat. Adrien Brody, Sarah Polley; The director of cult hit CUBE ups the ante in hybrid horror with this story of geneticists who, after recombining DNA from different species, give…
Star Trek (Star Trek XI (Reboot)) (2009): Dir. J.J. Abrams
Feat. Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto, Simon Pegg…; Enterprising and entirely effective "reboot" of the Sci–Fi franchise, charting the early days of Captain Kirk and the crew of the USS…
Stargate Universe (SGU) (TV Series) (2009): Feat. Robert Carlyle, Louis Ferreira, Brian J. Smith…; Fourth series in the STARGATE franchise sees a team of scientists, soldiers and civilians stranded on a runaway ship, millions of light years from…
Summer Wars (2009): Dir. Mamoru Hosoda; Stupendously entertaining hybrid of eccentric family comedy and technological dazzle, centred on the woes of a whiz kid who inadvertently sabotages…
Surrogates (2009): Dir. Jonathan Mostow
Feat. Bruce Willis, Radha Mitchell, Rosamund Pike…; Bruce Willis is called to action in this glassy, futuristic thriller, set in a world in which humans live their everyday lives through lifelike…
Tell Tale (2009): Dir. Michael Cuesta
Feat. Josh Lucas, Lena Headey, Brian Cox…; A man's newly transplanted heart leads him on a dangerous journey to find out who murdered its donor in this nerve–jangling adaptation of the…
Terminator Salvation (2009): Dir. McG
Feat. Christian Bale, Sam Worthington, Moon Bloodgood…; Po–faced fourth installment in the TERMINATOR franchise sees a grizzly John Connor (Bale) lead the resistance against SKYNET and its army of…
TiMER (2009): Dir. Jac Schaeffer
Feat. Emma Caulfield, Michelle Borth, John Patrick Amedori…; A fresh, engaging independent rom–com that posits the invention of a literal biological clock which, when implanted, counts down to the moment…
Titan Maximum (TV Series) (2009): Feat. Seth Green, Rachael Leigh Cook; Offbeat sci–fi spoof from the creators of ROBOT CHICKEN parodies 'Super Robot' serials and other intergalactic tropes with an obscure, but…
To (2001 Nights) (2009): Two standalone stories from Yukinobu Hoshino’s manga "2001 Nights" are vividly rendered in this 3D–animation concerning fantastical but…
Transformers - Revenge Of The Fallen (Transformers 2) (2009): Dir. Michael Bay
Feat. Shia LaBeouf, Megan Fox, Josh Duhamel…; Blockbuster buffoon Michael Bay reignites the conflict between warring robot tribes the Autobots and the Decepticons, with weedy hero Sam (LaBeouf)…
Under the Mountain (2009): Dir. Jonathan King
Feat. Tom Cameron, Sophie McBride, Sam Neill…; The special effects are right up to spec, and it's a step up for the director of BLACK SHEEP, but in souping up its source material for a teenage…
Underworld: Rise Of The Lycans (2009): Dir. Patrick Tatopoulos
Feat. Michael Sheen, Bill Nighy, Rhona Mitra; Latest in the long–suffering Underworld series focuses on the origins of the ancient feud between the vampires and the Lycans. This…
V (TV Series) (2009): Feat. Elizabeth Mitchell, Scott Wolf, Morris Chestnut…; Alien invaders claiming to 'come in peace' battle a tenacious human resistance in this 21st century update of the cult 80s sci–fi…
Warehouse 13 (TV Series) (2009-2014): Feat. Eddie McClintock, Joanne Kelly, Saul Rubinek; Described as "part The X–Files, part Raiders of the Lost Ark and part Moonlighting", this SyFy channel series follows two Secret Service Agents…
Watchmen (2009): Dir. Zack Snyder
Feat. Billy Crudup, Malin Akerman, Carla Gugino…; Spectacular – although flawed – live action adaptation of Alan Moore's graphic novel, focused around a group of retired…
Wonder Woman (2009): Dir. Lauren Montgomery
Feat. Keri Russell, Nathan Fillion, Alfred Molina…; Excellent animated feature telling the origin story of Wonder Woman (voiced by Russell) and her quest to protect the world from Ares (Molina). The…
X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009): Dir. Gavin Hood
Feat. Hugh Jackman, Liev Schreiber, Danny Huston…; Hugh Jackman reprises his role as wolfy superhero Wolverine, charting his origin–story from innocent child through to fully–fledged,…
Andromeda Strain, The (TV Mini-series) (2008): Dir. Mikael Salomon
Feat. Benjamin Bratt, Eric McCormack, Christa Miller…; A update of the terrifyingly plausible techno–thriller novel by Michael Crichton, following a team of scientists working in secret to research…
Babylon A.D. (2008): Dir. Mathieu Kassovitz
Feat. Vin Diesel, Michelle Yeoh, Gerard Depardieu…; Mind–numbing, muddled Vin Diesel thriller that sees the furrowed–brow strongman playing a callous mercenary recruited to smuggle a woman…
Batman: Gotham Knight (2008): Dir. Yoshiaki Kawajiri
Feat. Kevin Conroy, David McCallum, Parminder Nagra; From the producers of BATMAN BEGINS and the highly anticipated 'The Dark Knight' comes this stylish anime collection of six sequences tracing…
Batman: The Dark Knight (2008): Dir. Christopher Nolan
Feat. Christian Bale, Heath Ledger, Aaron Eckhart…; Christopher Nolan’s follow–up to BATMAN BEGINS pitches Christian Bale’s Batman against Heath Ledger’s lunatic Joker, propelling this…
Ben 10: Alien Force (TV Series) (2008): The return of Cartoon Network's adventure animation series 'Ben 10' taking place 5 years on from the original series. A now more mature…
Blindness (2008): Dir. Fernando Meirelles
Feat. Mark Ruffalo, Julianne Moore, Danny Glover…; Psychological thriller set in a big city where a sudden epidemic of 'white blindness' strikes half the population, and those affected set up their…
Bonekickers (TV Series) (2008): Feat. Hugh Bonneville, Julie Graham, Adrian Lester; From the creators of LIFE ON MARS comes this hybrid of INDIANA JONES and THE DA VINCI CODE as a crack team of archaeologists are thrust into various…
Chasing World, The (2008): Dir. Issei Shibata
Feat. Mitsuki Tanimura, Takuya Ishida; A high school student discovers a portal into a parallel universe, where those with the surname "Sato" are marked for elimination in a public…
CJ7 (Cheung Gong 7 hou) (2008): Dir. Stephen Chow (Chiao)
Feat. Stephen Chow (Chiao); Hong Kong superstar Stephen Chow turns his directing talents to the family–friendly fantasy, playing a dirt–poor father who surprises his…
Cloverfield (2008): Dir. Matt Reeves
Feat. Michael Stahl-David, Lizzy Caplan, Jessica Lucas…; A giant, malevolent extraterrestrial terrorises New York City in this dazzling cult creature–feature–with–a–twist: the action…
Day the Earth Stood Still, The (2008): Dir. Scott Derrickson
Feat. Keanu Reeves, Jennifer Connelly, Jaden Smith…; Rather vague, king–sized remake of the 1951 sci–fi classic, in which an alien visitor brings to earth a warning of imminent…
Dead Space (Downfall + Aftermath) (2008): Dir. Chuck Patton; A deep space survivalist horror, based on the video game of the same name, centred on a group of miners battling against a gruesome alien invasion…
Death Race (2008): Dir. Paul Anderson
Feat. Jason Statham, Joan Allen, Ian McShane…; Give ‘em what they want actioner starring the genre’s go–to guy Jason Statham as a former racing champ turned wrongfully imprisoned convict…
Doomsday (2008): Dir. Neil Marshall
Feat. Rhona Mitra, Bob Hoskins, Alexander Siddig…; Cult director Neil Marshall (THE DESCENT) returns with this gleefully anarchic, ultra–violent sci–fi actioner in which a taskforce from…
Franklyn (2008): Dir. Gerald McMorrow
Feat. Ryan Phillippe, Eva Green, Sam Riley…; Ambitious sci–fi juggles two parallel narratives; the first set in a dystopian society where atheism is outlawed and the second set in present…
Fringe (TV Series) (2008): Feat. Anna Torv, Joshua Jackson, John Noble…; Daring sci–fi offering from the creator of (the equally ambitious) LOST, focused on an FBI 'Fringe Division' team specializing in unorthodox…
Futurama - Beast With a Billion Backs (2008): Dir. Peter Avanzino
Feat. Katey Sagal, Billy West, John Di Maggio; The second feature–length movie outing for the Matt–Groening–created FUTURAMA franchise with Leela, Bender and Fry uncovering a…
Hellboy 2: The Golden Army (2008): Dir. Guillermo Del Toro
Feat. Ron Perlman, Selma Blair, Jeffrey Tambor…; The cigar–smoking demon must defeat the fabled golden army and his own self–doubt in this fabulous sequel to 2004’s HELLBOY.…
Incredible Hulk, The (2008): Dir. Louis Leterrier
Feat. Edward Norton, Liv Tyler, William Hurt…; The Green Machine gets another going–over in this serviceable update of the Marvel comic, tracking itinerant scientist Edward Norton as he…
Iron Man (2008): Dir. Jon Favreau
Feat. Robert Downey Jnr., Gwyneth Paltrow, Jeff Bridges…; Technically stunning live–action realisation of the story of Marvel comic superhero Iron Man – otherwise known as Tony Stark – a genius…
Journey to the Centre of the Earth (2008): Dir. Eric Brevig
Feat. Brendan Fraser, Josh Hutcherson, Anita Briem; A "rollercoaster" entertainment based very loosely on Jules Verne's famous novel, this version sees a contemporary trio embarking on an inadvertent…
Jumper (2008): Dir. Doug Liman
Feat. Hayden Christensen, Samuel L. Jackson, Jamie Bell; Pea–brained, wildly disjointed sci–fi chase flick from the director of THE BOURNE IDENTITY centres on a 'jumper' (Christensen) whose…
K-20 - Legend Of The Mask (2008): Dir. Shimako Sato
Feat. Takeshi Kaneshiro, Takako Matsu, Tôru Nakamura; An adventurous Japanese swashbuckler spun around a flamboyant mtaster thief who steals from the rich, and the unassuming acrobat (Kaneshiro) who is…
Life on Mars (US TV Series) (2008): Feat. Harvey Keitel, Jason O'Mara, Michael Imperioli…; Polarizing remake of the British sci–fi success shares an identical premise – namely cop hit by car in present wakes up in 1973 –…
Meet Dave (2008): Feat. Eddie Murphy, Elizabeth Banks; Passable sci–fi comedy starring Eddie Murphy as an alien captain / spaceship disguised as a man in order to hide the rest of his…
Mutant Chronicles (2008): Dir. Simon Hunter
Feat. Thomas Jane, Ron Perlman, John Malkovich; Sci–fi indie loosely based on the role–playing game of the same name set in the year 2707 of steam–powered technologies and Earth's…
Outlander (2008): Dir. Howard McCain
Feat. Jim Caviezel, Sophia Myles, Ron Perlman…; Spaceman Jim Caviezel crash lands in the fjords of Norway, must help Vikings defeat the dragons. Enjoyable daft sci–fi fantasy is by turns…
Resident Evil: Degeneration (2008): Dir. Makoto Kamiya; Passive animation adventure derived from the original video game series focusing on a couple of ex–special force agents tackling the outbreak…
Sky Crawlers, The (2008): Dir. Mamoru Oshii; Mamoru Oshii’s (GHOST IN THE SHELL) latest head–scratcher conceives an alternate World War II–reality around another conceptually dense…
Sleep Dealer (2008): Dir. Alex Rivera
Feat. Leonor Varela, Jacob Vargas, Luis Fernando Peña; Ideas over special effects characterise this Mexican sci–fi sleeper, where in the not–to–distant future cheap Hispanic labour is…
Speed Racer (2008): Dir. Lilly Wachowski, Lana Wachowski
Feat. Emile Hirsch, Christina Ricci, John Goodman…; The Wachowskis(THE MATRIX) take the wheel in this hyperactive version of 60s animation series SPEED RACER, with the eponymous hero (Hirsch) battling…
Spirit, The (2008): Dir. Frank Miller
Feat. Jaime King, Gabriel Macht, Eva Mendes…; Hollow directorial debut from comic book artist Miller centered around a rookie cop who comes back from the dead to fight crime as the stylish…
Splinter (2008): Dir. Toby Wilkins
Feat. Shea Whigham, Paulo Costanzo, Jill Wagner; Lean sci–fi thriller in which a couple and an escaped convict are trapped in a gas station by a deadly parasite intent on making their bodies…
Star Wars - The Clone Wars (2008): Dir. Dave Filoni; Watered down kids animation from the STAR WARS franchise, focusing on the Jedi Knights battle to retain peace in the galaxy during the…
Stargate - The Ark of Truth (2008): Dir. Robert C. Cooper
Feat. Claudia Black, Ben Browder, Beau Bridges…; Epic movie–length version of the sci–fi series STARGATE set at the end of STARGATE SG–1. We rejoin the SG team as they hunt for a…
Stargate: Continuum (2008): Feat. Ben Browder, Amanda Tapping, Christopher Judge…; Second "direct–to–video" sequel to the STARGATE SG–1 series (following The Ark of Truth), sees the team return from years in space…
Survivors (TV Series) (2008): Feat. Julie Graham, Max Beesley, Paterson Joseph…; Sharp remake of the cult seventies show is every bit as downbeat as the original with a virulent flu wiping out 99% of the population leaving a hardy…
Suspension (2008): Dir. Ethan Shaftel
Feat. Scott Cordes, Annie Tedesco, Caroline Vinciguerra; Independent sci–fi thriller in the TWILIGHT ZONE mold, concerning a man who loses his wife and son in a car accident, and subsequently…
Tamagotchi The Movie (2008): Kids movie based on the popular 'virtual pet' toys sees a child from Earth being inadvertently sent to the Tamagotchi Planet, where mischief and…
Terminator - The Sarah Connor Chronicles (TV Series) (2008): Feat. Lena Headey, Thomas Dekker, Busy Phillips; Flashy sci–fi series set two years after TERMINATOR 2: JUDGEMENT DAY and centred on Sarah Connor and her son preparing for battle against the…
Tokyo Gore Police (2008): Dir. Yoshihiro Nishimura
Feat. Eihi Shiina, Itsuji Ltao, Yukihide Benny; Trashy, imaginative Japanese gore fest aims to out–splatter Peter Jackson’s BRAINDEAD with its outrageous hybrid of ROBOCOP and…
Wall-E (2008): Dir. Andrew Stanton; Another stroke of Pixar genius, this time one for our conservationist times, this is the delightful eco–tale of the last surviving "waste…
Watchmen Animated: Tales of the Black Freighter & Under the Hood (2008): Dir. Mike Smith
Feat. Gerard Butler, Salli Saffioti, Stephen McHattie; Short animated companion piece to dir. Snyder's blockbuster WATCHMEN tells the story of a castaway's desperate struggle to return home and warn his…
Watchmen: The Complete Motion Comic (2008): Dir. Jake Strider Hughes; Page–for–page, word–for–word adaptation of Alan Moore's gritty graphic novel WATCHMEN, brought to life with minimal external…
X-Files - I Want to Believe (2008): Dir. Chris Carter
Feat. David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Billy Connolly…; The second big screen outing for the X–Files crew, 10 years on, with former FBI agents Mulder and Scully recruited onto a case involving…
28 Weeks Later (2007): Dir. Juan Carlos Fresnadillo
Feat. Robert Carlyle, Rose Byrne, Harold Perrineau, Jr.…; Post–Apocalyptic sequel to 28 DAYS LATER takes place weeks after the Rage Virus outbreak, with a small community attempting to…
Alien vs. Predator 2 - Requiem (AVPR) (2007): Dir. Colin Strause, Greg Strause
Feat. Robert Joy; On–the–cheap follow–up to AVP observing the warring Alien and Predator races as they draw battle lines on either side of a small…
Appleseed Ex Machina (2007): Dir. Shinji Aramaki; Propulsive, bulked–up sequel to the hi–tech APPLESEED movie, continuing the exploits of its kiss–ass female heroine, now deployed…
Battle for Terra (2007): Dir. Aristomenis Tsirbas
Feat. Evan Rachel Wood, Brian Cox, James Garner; A peaceful alien race comes under siege from a human race starved of natural resources in this animated sci–fi adventure. Owen Wilson and Evan…
Battlestar Galactica (TV Series) - Razor (2007): Dir. Felix Enrique Alcala
Feat. Edward James Olmos, Mary McDonnell, Tricia Helfer…; Step–by–step sci–fi film that comprises the first two episodes of Series 4 BATTLESTAR GALACTICA, focused on a new lieutenant…
Bionic Woman, The (TV Series) (2007): Feat. Michelle Ryan, Miguel Ferrer, Molly Price…; Updated version of the 70's TV series about a female athlete who is gifted with bionic strength after a serious accident.
Chrysalis (2007): Dir. Julien Leclercq
Feat. Albert Dupontel, Marie Guillard, Marthe Keller…; Relentless French sci–fi flick shot in gun–metal blue and packed with fine examples of classic and contemporary science–fictional…
Doctor Strange - The Sorceror Supreme (2007): Dir. Jay Oliva; Another popular comic book adaptation from the Marvel animated stable: here, the ‘Dr. Strange’ series makes for a fantastical world’s end…
Doctor Who (Animated TV Series) (2007): Feat. David Tennant, Freema Agyeman, Anthony Head…; Animated spin–offs that aim predominantly at a younger audience, but have enough well–crafted animation locations and clever technique to…
Doctor Who (Series 4) [David Tennant] (Dr. Who) (2007-2008): Feat. David Tennant, Catherine Tate, Billie Piper; David Tennant returns as the Doctor accompanied by his new sidekick, played by Catherine Tate, as they battle intergalatic monsters on their time…
Doctor Who (TV Specials) [David Tennant] (Voyage of the Damned, The Next Doctor, Planet of the Dead, The Water of Mars, The End of Time) (2007-2010): Feat. David Tennant, John Simm, Catherine Tate…; In his final appearance as the Tenth Doctor, David Tennant signs off in style with this two part Winter Special. Old nemesis The Master (John Simm)…
Dragon Wars (D-War) (2007): Dir. Hyung-rae Shim
Feat. Jason Behr, Amanda Brooks, Robert Forster; Schlocky and ungainly monster movie makes good fist of its Korean legend, about giant dragons resurrected and dispatched upon Los Angeles, served…
Evangelion 'Rebuild' Movies (1.11: You Are (Not) Alone, 2.22: You Can (Not) Advance, 3.33: You Can (Not) Redo) (2007-2014): Dir. Hideaki Anno; The much repeated, much imitated anime makes its big screen debut as a ‘reboot’ of the landmark 26 episode series, following boy hero Shinji’s…
Family Guy: Blue Harvest (2007): Dir. Dominic Polcino; Standalone FAMILY GUY parody of pop–cultural megalith STAR WARS finds Peter, Stewie and co. assuming the roles of hero, villain, princess and…
Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer (2007): Dir. Tim Story
Feat. Ioan Gruffudd, Jessica Alba, Chris Evans…; Comparable sequel to the hit live–action adaptation of the Marvel comic books, with the dir. and cast returning as the four discover there are…
Futurama - Bender's Big Score (2007): Dir. Dwayne Carey-Hill
Feat. Katey Sagal, Billy West, John Di Maggio; Bender the sleazy robot, Leela the (Katey Sagal–voiced) cyclops space–babe and Fry the AV guy perform their satiric spacejinks, breathing…
Ghost Hound (TV Series) (2007): Dir. Ryutaro Nakamura; Conceived by Masamune Shirow (GHOST IN THE SHELL), this genre–bending anime series concerns the experiences of three boys who can see into an…
Heart Of An Empire (2007): Dir. Jay Thompson; Engaging doco taking a look into the lives of an ever–expanding network of Star Wars fanatics, known as 'Fighting 501st Legion,' who get their…
I Am Legend (2007): Dir. Francis Lawrence
Feat. Will Smith, Alice Braga; In the post–apocalyptic ruins of New York City, Will Smith is the (seemingly) sole survivor of a mutant cancer vaccine gone bung, which has…
Invasion, The (2007): Dir. Oliver Hirschbiegel
Feat. Nicole Kidman, Daniel Craig; Riddled with flaws, yet entertaining enough to sustain attention, the third remake of INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS centres on a Washington D.C.…
Jekyll (TV Series) (2007): Dir. Douglas Mackinnon
Feat. James Nesbitt, Gina Bellman; A modern adaptation of the 'Jekyll and Hyde' tale, this twisted comedy series focuses on an everyday guy who morphs into his violent alter ego 'Hyde'…
Last Mimzy, The (2007): Dir. Robert Shaye
Feat. Rhiannon Leigh Wryn, Chris O'Neil; Bro and sis develop amazing mental powers when they uncover a mysterious black box full of objects including Mimzy, a stuffed rabbit, sent from the…
Lost (TV Series) - Season 4 (2007): Feat. Naveen Andrews, Matthew Fox, Emilie de Ravin…; The mysterious consequences of the downing of Oceanic Flight 815 continue, now accompanied by intriguing flash forwards of life off the island, with…
Lost Room, The (TV Mini-series) (2007): Feat. Peter Krause, Julianne Margulies, Peter Jacobson…; Sci–fi TV miniseries about a motel room on Route 66 that is discovered to be a portal to another dimension, and the detective whose daughter…
Man from Earth, The (2007): Dir. Richard Schenkman
Feat. Tony Todd, William Katt; Considered sci–fi focused on a history professor who unexpectedly resigns without reason, until he reveals the shocking secret that he is…
Martian Child (2007): Dir. Menno Meyjes
Feat. John Cusack, Joan Cusack, Amanda Peet; Nicely judged performances from a quality cast lend weight to this rather feathery, maudlin tale of a lonely sci–fi author who adopts an…
Masters Of Science Fiction (TV Series) (A Clean Escape, Jerry Was A Man, The Awakening, Little Brother, Watchbird, The Discarded.) (2007): Dir. Mark Rydell, Michael Petroni, Darnell Martin
Feat. Judy Davis, Sam Waterston, Anne Heche…; Collection of six stories from the world's top sci–fi writers brought to life by a top–notch cast and hosted by Professor Stephen…
Mist, The (2007): Dir. Frank Darabont
Feat. Thomas Jane, Marcia Gay Harden; Unnerving horror adapted from a Stephen King short story about a mysterious mist which rolls into a small town in Maine, driving the townsfolk to…
Mosaic (Stan Lee presents Mosaic) (2007): Dir. Roy Allen Smith
Feat. Anna Paquin; Conducting a lighting bolt by–way–of some ancient relics, Anna Paquin voices an ordinary teenager suddenly imbedded with…
Next (2007): Dir. Lee Tamahori
Feat. Nicolas Cage, Jessica Biel, Julianne Moore; Nick Cage plays a schlocky Vegas magician with a secret power – he can see a wee way into the future – which makes him a useful (if…
Primeval (TV Series) (2007): Feat. Douglas Henshall, Juliet Aubrey; Exciting kidult adventure romp posits time slips in modern–day England that unleash various prehistoric creatures onto the world. From the…
Rabbit Fall (TV Series) (2007): Feat. Andrea Menard, Kevin Jubinville, Peter Kelly Gaudreault; Unusual curio traces life in the small Canadian town of Rabbit Fall with new cop Menard having more than just petty crime to contend with as she…
Resident Evil - Extinction (2007): Dir. Russell Mulcahy
Feat. Milla Jovovich, Ali Larter; Milla Jovovich returns in the war against the undead in this third installment of the game–turned–film franchise. This time our…
Sanctuary (TV Series) (2007): Feat. Amanda Tapping, Robin Dunne, Emilie Ullerup…; Canadian sci–fi series from the makers of STARGATE SG1 focused around a crew of highly–gifted scientists who serve to protect an alien…
Sarah Jane Adventures, The (TV Series) (2007): Feat. Elizabeth Sladen; Family–friendly DOCTOR WHO spin–off sees arguably the most popular companion, investigative journalist Sarah Jane, getting into various…
Seeker, The - The Dark is Rising (2007): Dir. David L Cunningham
Feat. Alexander Ludwig, Ian McShane, Christopher Eccleston…; Choppy big screen adaptation of Susan Cooper's popular children's series, which pits a chosen young boy against Christopher Eccleston, Ian McShane,…
Spider-Man 3 (Spiderman 3) (2007): Dir. Sam Raimi
Feat. Tobey Maguire, Kirsten Dunst, James Franco…; The third entry in the mega–successful Marvel franchise finds Peter Parker/Spiderman confronting a coterie of villains and emo–like teen…
Star Wars: Robot Chicken Special (2007): Dir. Seth Green; 'Adult Swim' stop–motion satire created by Seth Green (AUSTIN POWERS) expounding on the 'Star Wars' segments from the show 'Robot Chicken'…
Strait Jacket (2007): Dir. Shinji Ushiro; Sorcerers battle a marauding demon race in this flashy, steam–punk adventure.
Stringer (2007): Dir. Steven Morrison
Feat. Matthew Sunderland, Paul Glover, Danielle Cormack; The excellent Matthew Sutherland (OUT OF THE BLUE) plays a journalist investigating organ trafficking in this local sci–fi digital…
Sunshine (2007): Dir. Danny Boyle
Feat. Cillian Murphy, Rose Byrne, Michelle Yeoh…; Proverbial space peril from the creators of 28 DAYS LATER; a crew of astronauts, and mankind’s last hope, set about delivering a nuclear payload to…
Superman: Doomsday (2007): Feat. Adam Baldwin, Anne Heche, John Di Maggio…; Brutal animation based on 'The Death of Superman' comic where our red caped superhero must defeat the creature 'Doomsday' and rise from the dead to…
Superstorm (TV Mini-series) (2007): Feat. Nicola Stephenson, Tom Sizemore, JR Bourne…; Three–part BBC thriller in which a team of scientists working on a theoretical project to manipulate the weather are thrown into turmoil when…
Sword Of Alexander (Taitei no ken) (2007): Dir. Yukihiko Tsutsumi
Feat. Hiroshi Abe, Riki Takeuchi; Camp sword and sorcery pastiche mines the Japanese tradition for bizarre humour, genre–mincing, and spectacular overacting, with…
Time Crimes (Los Cronocrímenes Timecrimes) (2007): Dir. Nacho Vigalondo
Feat. Karra Elejalde, Candela Fernandez, Barbara Goenaga; Intricate, mind–bending Spanish gem following a man who trips back a fraction in time and inadvertently interferes with his past, present and…
Transformers (2007): Dir. Michael Bay
Feat. Shia LaBeouf, Tyrese Gibson, Jon Voight…; Industrial–strength live–action adaptation of the cult 80s cartoon, about two waring robot factions with the ability to 'transform' into…
Vexille (2007): Dir. Fumisiko Sori; Brawny sci–fi anime set in the year 2077, in which a special agent is sent to examine the capabilities of Japan’s robot technology, and its…
Xavier Renegade Angel (TV Series) (2007): One of Adult Swim's edgier offerings, about a New Age wanderer searching for truth and meaning in the world. The show's ribald, at times offensive…
Aachi and Ssipak (2006): Dir. Beom-jin Jo
Feat. Ryoo Seung-beom; Bawdy Korean anime imbues its puerile subject matter – where in a post–apocalyptic society, human excrement is the currency of choice –…
Altered (2006): Dir. Eduardo Sanchez
Feat. James Gammon; A belated return to screen for the co–director of THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT, who works another resourceful and potentially nerve–racking…
Ben 10: Race Against Time (2006): Dir. Alex Winter
Feat. Graham Phillips, Lee Majors; Live–action version of the kid's animation phenomenon about a boy wonder with a magic wristwatch who must protect the earth from a space…
Bleach (TV Series) (2006): Immensely popular anime series follows the supernatural adventures of a gifted teenager whose ability to channel the powers of a ‘Soul Reaper’…
Children of Men (2006): Dir. Alfonso Cuaron
Feat. Clive Owen, Julianne Moore, Chiwetel Ejiofor…; Clive Owen is pursued across a dystopian England of 2027 in this stimulating, pertinent sci–fi parable, rendered with stunning virtuosity by…
Court of Lonely Royals (2006): Dir. Rohan Michael Hoole
Feat. Damon Gameau, Samantha Noble, Leah De Neise…; Atypical Aussie indie in which a group of twisted teen mercenaries kill for the cops, using their targets’ weaknesses against them, in an urban…
Daft Punk's Electroma (2006): Dir. Thomas Bangalter, Guy-Manuel De Homem-Christo
Feat. Peter Hurteau; Scrambled sci–fi homage to the existential sees Daft Punk outfitters De Homem–Christo and Bangalter curate a contemplative odyssey of two…
Day Watch (Dnevnoi Dozor, Daywatch) (2006): Dir. Timur Bekmambetov
Feat. Konstantin Khabensky, Maria Poroshina, Dima Martinov; The vampiric Muscovite forces of Good and Evil fight it out again in this frenetic, fantastic FX fantasy every bit as good as the first one (NIGHT…
Doctor Who (Series 3) [David Tennant] (Dr. Who) (2006-2007): Feat. David Tennant, Catherine Tate, John Simm…; David Tennant returns for a second series as the most current Doctor Who, sharing the Tardis briefly with bride–to–be Donna, played by…
Eureka (TV Series) (2006): Feat. Colin Ferguson, Greg Germann, Joe Morton…; Novel sci–fi series focused on a stranded U.S. Marshall who uncovers a remote hamlet populated by a community of hand–picked scientists…
Event 16 (2006): Dir. Derek Pearson; An ambitious sci–fi yarn – shot on a shoestring in Wellington – in which the backroom tinkerings of a wannabe young inventor…
Fountain, The (2006): Dir. Darren Aronofsky
Feat. Hugh Jackman, Rachel Weisz, Ellen Burstyn…; A madly ambitious, visually splendid odyssey from dir. Darren Aronofksy, this will certainly intrigue fans of his earlier work, while sci–fi…
Freedom (TV Series) (2006): Dir. Joe Egender; Katsuhiro Otomo's distinctive character designs flavour this beautifully rendered seven–part anime serial, originally devised as a marketing…
Frisky Dingo (TV Series) (2006): Twisted sci–fi animation from the 'adult swim' company (SEALAB 2021) introduces us to Xander Crews–playboy by day and superhero…
Ghost in the Shell - Stand Alone Complex: Individual Eleven (2006): Dir. Kenji Kamiyama; Concluding sequel to THE LAUGHING MAN serves up the '2nd Gig' season of STAND ALONE COMPLEX as a reconstituted feature length film. See SOLID STATE…
Ghost in the Shell - Stand Alone Complex: Solid State Society (2006): Dir. Kenji Kamiyama; High–end, feature–length addition to the GHOST IN THE SHELL universe, employing a futuristic, if baffling array of spectacular anime…
Hellboy Animated (2006): Dir. Phil Weinstein; Teasing series of animated features continuing the HELLBOY legacy, with Ron Perlman and Selma Blair faithfully reprising their roles from the…
Heroes (TV Series) (2006): Feat. Ali Larter, Hayden Panettiere, Masi Oka…; Sprawling, overarching fantasy series posits the transformation of a group of ordinary Americans (and one dorky Japanese man) into destined…
Hogfather (Terry Pratchett's Hogfather) (2006): Dir. Vadim Jean
Feat. David Jason, Marc Warren, Nigel Planer…; Another installment in Terry Pratchett's universe sees Discworld's equivalent to Father Christmas 'the Hogfather' go missing on Hogswatch eve with…
Host, The (Gwoemul) (2006): Dir. Joon-ho Bong
Feat. Kang-ho Song, Doona Bae, Ah-sung Ko; Colossal Korean blockbuster that single–handedly revives the generic monster movie: birthed from a batch of military–grade chemicals…
Hyperdrive (TV Series) (2006): Feat. Nick Frost, Miranda Hart; Post–RED DWARF spin–off combines British sci–fi humour with splashes of STAR TREK subversion. Set in 2151, it concerns the…
Idiocracy (2006): Dir. Mike Judge
Feat. Luke Wilson, Dax Shepard, David Herman…; A dumb comedy for smart people, this follows the likes of TEAM AMERICA and BORAT as another shrewd post–9/11 satire in which Americans take a…
Jericho (TV Series) (2006): Feat. Skeet Ulrich, Ashley Scott, Lennie James; Gripping, underrated sci–fi thriller employs the intriguing post–apocalyptic premise of an isolated small–town trying to survive in…
Killian Curse, The (TV Series) (2006): Local fantasy–horror series in which the 21 students of Room 21, must each defeat a demon sent by the spirit of their long–dead school…
Kyle XY (TV Series) (2006): Feat. Matt Dallas; Engaging sci–fi series concerning an adopted teenager with super human abilities on a quest to uncover his past and reveal his true identity.…
Listening, The (2006): Dir. Giacomo Martelli
Feat. Michael Parks; Visually fetching spy thriller centred on a NSA officer on a mission to disable spy technology that enables the U.S. government to use phones as live…
Lost (TV Series) - Season 2 (2006): Feat. Dominic Monaghan, Naveen Andrews, Harold Perrineau, Jr.…; The mysterious consequences of the downing of Oceanic Flight 815 continue in this excellent followup season. Season 2 (24 episodes) over 7 discs.
Maddigan's Quest (TV Series) (2006): Feat. Michael Hurst, Timothy Balme, Danielle Cormack; Nicely–produced local series for children – adapted from Margaret Mahy's bestseller – set in a post–technological future…
Origin: Spirits of the Past (2006): Dir. Keiichi Sugiyama; Thoughtful, cautionary tale of biological engineering gone awry. Like Miyazaki, this concerns itself with environmental matters through a…
Paprika (2006): Dir. Satoshi Kon; Mind–altering extravaganza of stolen dream technology from the anime trailblazer behind PERFECT BLUE, forged from the dir’s pet themes of…
Perfect Creature (2006): Dir. Glenn Standring
Feat. Saffron Burrows, Dougray Scott, Leo Gregory…; Ambitious, well–appointed Gothica set in a retro–alternate Aotearoa, where humans and their highly–evolved vampire colleagues…
Prehistoric Park (TV Series) (2006): Interesting documentary speculation pitched to children has naturalist Nigel Marvin 'rescue' dinosaurs and prehistoric animals, hypothetically…
Renaissance (2006): Dir. Christian Volckman
Feat. Daniel Craig, Jonathan Pryce, Ian Holm…; Painting a typically bleak, oppressive view of the not–to–distant future, this French animation conception realises its dystopian malaise…
Scanner Darkly, A (2006): Dir. Richard Linklater
Feat. Keanu Reeves, Robert Downey Jnr., Woody Harrelson…; Richard Linklater’s latest ‘rotoscope’ animation adapts Philip K. Dick's sci–fi novel into a dystopian proxy for the near future, where…
Sinking of Japan, The (Nihon chinbotsu) (2006): Dir. Shinji Higuchi
Feat. Ko Shibasaki, Tsuyoshi Kusanagi; Japan is posited as a submerging island nation in this cloying, ultra–earnest disaster movie, based on the (oft–told) theory that seismic…
Southland Tales (2006): Dir. Richard Kelly
Feat. Sarah Michelle Gellar, Seann William Scott, Mandy Moore…; A chaotically comedic, pre–apocalyptic sci–fi ensemble piece, helmed with self–importance and unrestraint by the…
Superman Returns (2006): Dir. Bryan Singer
Feat. Brandon Routh, Kate Bosworth, Kevin Spacey…; Solid revival of the 'Man of Steel' franchise soars to new heights of conceptual daring and tour–de–force action, with newcomer Brandon…
Tales From Earthsea (Gedo senki) (2006): Dir. Goro Miyazaki; The animated feature debut from Goro Miyazaki, son of Hayao, based on Ursula K Le Guin's popular 'Earthsea' novels, this is a commendable addition to…
Tekkonkinkreet (2006): Dir. Michael Arias; Notable Western–directed anime about two street kids defending their turf across a sprawling, fantastical cityscape. Involving yakuza muscle…
Torchwood (TV Series) (Children of Earth; Miracle Day) (2006-2011): Feat. John Barrowman, Eve Myles, Burn Gorman…; This Dr. Who spin–off series, set in present day Cardiff, focuses on 'The Captain' (a former travel companion of the Doctor), who travels…
Ultimate Avengers (2006): Dir. Bob Richardson; Slim, cheerfully low–grade Marvel animated feature which unites six iconic superheroes (Captain America, The Hulk, etc.) in a fight against…
Ultraviolet (2006): Dir. Kurt Wimmer
Feat. Milla Jovovich, William Fichtner; Bleak and vaguely coherent sci–fi actioner, with Milla Jovovich playing a diseased half–vampire who must protect a small boy –…
War of the Worlds - Live on Stage (2006): A suitably spectacular multi–media stage version of Jeff Wayne's musical version of H.G. Wells' "War of the Worlds", filmed at Wembley Arena in…
X-Men 3: The Last Stand (2006): Dir. Brett Ratner
Feat. Hugh Jackman, Famke Janssen, Patrick Stewart…; Third entry in the X–MEN series maintains the intensity with a raft of new mutants – of various persuasions – and an intriguing new…
Zoom - Academy for Superheroes (2006): Dir. Peter Hewitt
Feat. Tim Allen, Courteney Cox, Chevy Chase…; Tim Allen plays a has–been caped crusader, recruited in his twilight to train four gifted children with superpowers into a new…
Aeon Flux (2005): Dir. Karyn Kusama
Feat. Charlize Theron, Marton Csokas, Jonny Lee Miller…; Sci–fi action fantasy based on the mid–1990s animation by Peter Chung, in which a spandex–clad superheroine (Theron) flits around…
Alien Apocalypse (2005): Dir. Josh Becker
Feat. Bruce Campbell; Suspension of disbelief is strongly advised in order to enjoy this campy, schlocky spatter–fest. Campbell (EVIL DEAD) hams it up as an…
Alone in the Dark (2005): Dir. Uwe Boll
Feat. Christian Slater, Tara Reid, Stephen Dorff; A sadly fumbled attempt to adapt the Atari videogame of the same name, set around a pair of investigators – a detective (Slater) and musuem…
Batman Begins (2005): Dir. Christopher Nolan
Feat. Christian Bale, Michael Caine, Gary Oldman…; Angular and grim prequel explores the origins of brooding superhero Batman, here played by Christian Bale, from the childhood trauma of millionaire…
Brothers Grimm (2005): Dir. Terry Gilliam
Feat. Heath Ledger, Matt Damon, Jonathan Pryce…; Loosely based on the lives of 19th century German folklore collectors Wilhelm and Jacob Grimm, this has the said brothers (played by Ledger and…
Disaster! (2005): Dir. Roy T. Wood; A marginal, clay–mated spoof of disaster films, this offers a potty–fixated twist on the script of ARMAGEDDON, with impending doom coming…
Doctor Who (Series 2) [David Tennant] (Dr. Who) (2005-2006): Feat. Billie Piper, David Tennant; Tenth 'regeneration' of the enigmatic Doctor Who with David Tennant bequeathed the Tardis and sidekick Rose (played again by Billie Piper) in a new…
Doom (2005): Dir. Andrzej Bartkowiak
Feat. Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson, Karl Urban, Rosamund Pike; Based on one of the most popular computer games ever made, this concerns a corp of elite commandos who are sent into a quarantined laboratory on Mars…
Elektra (2005): Dir. Rob Bowman
Feat. Jennifer Garner, Goran Visnjic, Terence Stamp; Reprising her quasi–superhero role from DAREDEVIL, Garner dons a red supervixen outfit as a contract assassin pitted against a cabal of ninjas…
Evil Aliens (2005): Dir. Jake West; Riotous horror–comedy in the shamelessly low–rent tradition of BAD TASTE, in which a tabloid TV presenter gathers up her film crew to…
Fantastic Four (2005): Dir. Tim Story
Feat. Ioan Gruffudd, Jessica Alba, Chris Evans…; A surprisingly fetching adaptation of Stan "Spider–man" Lee's tale of a group of astronauts transformed by accidental exposure to cosmic…
Ghost in the Shell - Stand Alone Complex: The Laughing Man (2005): Dir. Kenji Kamiyama; A compartment–sized crash course in the STAND ALONE COMPLEX universe, this two hour feature skillfully edits down the seven volume TV series…
Gisaku (2005): Dir. Baltasar Pedrosa; Spanish–anime hybrid concerns an alliance of samurai warriors pitted against a demonic ‘Master of Darkness’ hell–bent on destroying…
Hard Pill (2005): Dir. John Baumgartner
Feat. Jonathan Slavin, Scotch Ellis Loring, Susan Slome…; Provocative comedy–drama dares to posit a scenario in which a little pill can induce heterosexuality and when a depressed gay man wonders if…
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, The (2005): Dir. Garth Jennings
Feat. Martin Freeman, Zooey Deschanel, Sam Rockwell…; Maintaining the comic wonderstuff and special British eccentricity of Douglas Adams' original novel (and radio and TV spin–offs), this…
How William Shatner Changed the World (2005): Dir. Julian Jones
Feat. William Shatner; In his goofy middle age, William Shatner hosts this irreverent yet informational documentary on the continuing influence of STAR TREK’s fictional…
Invasion (TV Series) (2005-2006): Feat. William Fichtner, Eddie Cibrian; Creeping sci–fi series concerning a small–town family who find their town bizarrely quarantined after a mysterious hurricane. Like a…
Island, The (2005): Dir. Michael Bay
Feat. Ewan McGregor, Scarlett Johansson, Steve Buscemi…; Surprisingly effective dystopian actioner proposes a blandly synthetic future world, in which humans inhabit cities to protect themselves from the…
Karas - The Prophecy / The Revelation (2005): Dir. Kei'ichi Sato; Large–scale, CG rendered anime concerns the battle for Tokyo between two guardian angels who weld various powers of the occult. Two volumes:…
King Kong: Peter Jackson Production Diaries (2005): Presenting a close–to–the–ground account of the forging of Peter Jackson's KING KONG (2005), this shows the filming with all its…
Locusts - Day of Destruction (2005): Dir. David Jackson
Feat. Lucy Lawless, John Heard; Cheese–dipped thriller set in the good ol' US of A, where a swarm of pissed off bio–engineered locusts run riot across the countryside…
Man with the Screaming Brain (2005): Dir. Bruce Campbell
Feat. Bruce Campbell, Stacy Keach; Absurdist sci–fi comedy directed by and starring the EVIL DEAD's Bruce Campbell, about a wealthy industrialist who's mad on brain…
Medium (TV Series) (2005): Feat. Patricia Arquette, Miguel Sandoval, Jake Weber; Moderately–spooky paranormal soap–opera with Patricia Arquette playing a psychic attached to the DA's office in Phoenix, Arizona, who…
Point Pleasant (TV Series) (2005): Feat. Elisabeth Harnois, Grant Show; Short–lived, mildly cultish series may interest BUFFY fans as a brief alternative: it concerns a mysterious girl who washes up on the shoreline…
Puzzlehead (2005): Dir. James Bai
Feat. Stephen Galaida, Robbie Shapiro; Grungy sci–fi set in a desolate future in which a lonely scientist creates a self–aware android and unwittingly a love rival. Shot on a…
Robots (2005): Dir. Chris Wedge, Carlos Saldanha; Set in a future world inhabited totally by robot creatures, this sparky animation from the creators of ICE AGE ratchets through its thriller plot…
Samurai 7 (TV Series) (2005): Dir. Toshifumi Takizawa; Daring anime update of Kurosawa's SEVEN SAMURAI, set in a post–apocalyptic world where partly–bionic former samurai roam the wilderness…
Serenity (2005): Dir. Joss Whedon
Feat. Nathan Fillion, Gina Torres, Alan Tudyk; Thoroughly enjoyable sci–fi romp based upon the cult TV series FIREFLY, in which the ship 'Serenity' cruises a future solar federation of human…
Sin City (2005): Dir. Robert Rodriguez, Frank Miller
Feat. Bruce Willis, Mickey Rourke, Clive Owen…; A sensational slab of stylized and ultra–violent pulp fiction, adapted from Frank Miller's own notorious 'crime noir' comicbooks, and…
Sky High (2005): Dir. Mike Mitchell
Feat. Michael Angarano, Kurt Russell, Kelly Preston…; Likeable family comedy set in a future where superheroes are trained as teenagers at special schools, such as the 'Sky High' of the title, before…
Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith (2005): Dir. George Lucas
Feat. Hayden Christensen, Natalie Portman, Ewan McGregor; Dir. George Lucas completes his blockbusting space opera saga with a gratifying flourish, providing certainly the most thrilling of the 'prequels'…
Supervolcano (TV Series) (2005): Dir. Tony Mitchell
Feat. Michael Riley, Gary Lewis; Sci–fi/ doco hybrid from the BBC presents a possible case scenario for the cataclysmic eruption of the volcano under Yellowstone Park. comes…
Surface (TV Series) (2005-2006): Feat. Lake Bell, Jay R. Ferguson, Carter Jenkins…; Short–lived but acclaimed Sci–fi TV series starring Lake Bell as a marine biologist who confronts a new species of sea life, while…
Tetsujin 28 (2005): Dir. Shin Togashi; Wacky but earnest live–action update of the classic 1950s anime GIGANTOR, replotted to depict the struggle between a ferocious robot 'Black Ox'…
Threshold (TV Series) (2005): Feat. Carla Gugino, Brent Spiner, Peter Dinklage…; Campy but enjoyable sci–fi show, in which a team of experts are hastily assembled when the U.S. Navy discovers an extraterrestrial craft in the…
Tideland (2005): Dir. Terry Gilliam
Feat. Jeff Bridges, Jennifer Tilly, Jodelle Ferland; Perennial mindbender Terry Gilliam burrows down the rabbit hole, perverting a child’s fairytale into a corrupted, deeply disturbed nightmare…
Transformers Cybertron (TV Series) (2005): The Transformers revival continues with this latest addition to the popular animated series.
Triangle, The (TV Mini-series) (2005): Dir. Craig R. Baxley
Feat. Eric Stoltz, Catherine Bell, Lou Diamond Phillips…; Three part miniseries produced by sci–fi aficionado BRYAN SINGER (X MEN), following a crew of specialists who attempt to uncover the truths…
Underworld: Evolution (2005): Dir. Len Wiseman
Feat. Kate Beckinsale, Derek Jacobi, Bill Nighy; The slinky, rubber–clad Kate Beckinsale continues her Vampiric crusade against 'the Lycans' (Werewolves) in this obligatory sequel to the…
V for Vendetta (2005): Dir. James McTeigue
Feat. Natalie Portman, Hugo Weaving, Stephen Rea…; Set in the year 2020, this dystopian thriller adapts Alan Moore's graphic novel about a world where deadly viruses have wiped out most of America and…
War of the Worlds (2005): Dir. Steven Spielberg
Feat. Tom Cruise, Dakota Fanning, Miranda Otto…; Dynamic and intense re–imagining of H.G. Wells sci–fi staple (for its first half at least), in which hostile aliens invade Earth in…
Wild Blue Yonder, The (2005): Dir. Werner Herzog
Feat. Brad Dourif; Moody 'science fiction fantasy' depicting an alternate reality where an alien species try to colonise a now inhospitable Earth. Dir. Herzog…
Zathura (A Space Adventure) (2005): Dir. Jon Favreau
Feat. Dax Shepard, Kristen Stewart, Tim Robbins; Highly effective 'sequel of sorts' to JUMANJI, with two squabbling kid brothers unearthing a strange clockwork boardgame in the basement, which upon…
4400, The (TV Series) (2004): Feat. Joel Gretsch, Jacqueline McKenzie; An effectively puzzling sci–fi TV series which begins on a day when 4400 missing persons suddenly reappear on Earth, not a day older than when…
Alien vs. Predator (AVP) (2004): Dir. Paul Anderson
Feat. Sanaa Lathan, Raoul Bova, Ewen Bremner…; A loud and slime–lacquered clash of the sci–fi titans, the enticing prospect of two classic bogeymen going monstrous…
Appleseed - The Movie (Appurushîdo) (2004): Dir. Shinji Aramaki; Muscular and violent anime set in a post–WW3 landscape, where a gung–ho woman warrior is captured and transported to a seemingly benign…
Barrio 13 (District B13) (2004): Dir. Pierre Morel
Feat. Cyril Raffaelli, David Belle; Set in a near–future ghetto dystopia, this slightly–plotted action spectacle thrills as a vehicle for its martial art of choice: Parkour,…
Battlestar Galactica (TV Series) (2004-2009): Feat. Edward James Olmos, Mary McDonnell; Following on from the 2003 miniseries, this has been hailed as Sci–Fi’s greatest TV series to date... SEASON ONE: 13 episodes over 4 DVDs…
Blade - Trinity (2004): Dir. David S Goyer
Feat. Wesley Snipes, Kris Kristofferson, Jessica Biel…; The third (and surely last) installment in the vampire slasher BLADE trilogy, with Snipes again donning the sobering mantle of vampire–human…
Casshern (2004): Dir. Kazuaki Kiriya
Feat. Yusuke Iseya, Kumiko Aso, Akira Terao; Set in a ravaged, post–nuclear war future, ruled by a fascist clique, this rearranges some familiar elements with a visually charged, epic…
Catwoman (2004): Dir. Pitof
Feat. Halle Berry, Benjamin Bratt, Sharon Stone…; A mild–tempered woman (Berry), killed by her treacherous employer, is mysteriously reincarnated with feline–speed reflexes and the…
Chronicles of Riddick, The (2004): Dir. David Twohy
Feat. Vin Diesel, Judi Dench, Thandiwe Newton…; Vin Diesel goes on the run as 'Riddick', the anti–hero of PITCH BLACK, in a far more elaborate space opera based around the evil ambitions of a…
Control (2004): Dir. Tim Hunter
Feat. Ray Liotta, Willem Dafoe, Michelle Rodriguez…; Ray Liotta is typically compelling as an unrepentant sociopath on 'death row', who, in return for his life, agrees to become a guinea pig in a…
Cutie Honey (Kyûtî Hanî) (2004): Dir. Hideaki Anno
Feat. Eriko Sato; Colourful cluster bomb romp pits a sexy supercharged heroine against an assembly line of comic book villains in a camp futuristic netherworld. Fun,…
Day After Tomorrow, The (2004): Dir. Roland Emmerich
Feat. Dennis Quaid, Jake Gyllenhaal, Dash Mihok…; Another disaster–spectacle revival from the makers of "Independence Day" that sees scientist Dennis Quaid trying in vain to warn the world of…
Dead Leaves (2004): Dir. Hiroyuki Imaishi; Jittery and brutal anime from the makers of KAI DOH MARU, in which a pair of young amnesiac miscreants (Pandy and Retro) half–destroy a city…
Devilman (2004): Dir. Hiroyuki Nasu
Feat. Hisato Izaki; Clunky live–action manga adaptation saddles a dorky teenager with the fate of mankind, forcing him to adopt the characteristics of a…
Doctor Who (Series 1) [Christopher Eccleston] (Dr. Who) (2004-2005): Feat. Christopher Eccleston, Billie Piper; A Doctor Who for the digital age with Christopher Eccleston upholding the fine tradition of the quirky, time–travelling hero, with one time…
Dragon's World - A Fantasy Made Real (2004): Dir. Justin Hardy; Interesting TV hybrid, poses the question "what if dragons were real?", and unfolds the story of a group of hikers who stumble upon the frozen…
Elfen Lied (2004): Dir. Mamoru Kanbe; Anime TV series adapting the earlier part of a manga of the same name by Lynn Okamoto that was considered edgy in its time due to being pretty dark…
Final Cut, The (2004): Dir. Omar Naim
Feat. Robin Williams, Mira Sorvino, Jim Caviezel…; Pertinent in an age where everything is over–recorded, and continuing a wave of films that play with memory, this sci–fi speculation from…
Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children (2004): Dir. Tetsuya Nomura, Takeshi Nozue; The second major feature film to emerge from the PlayStation game franchise (after FINAL FANTASY – THE SPIRITS WITHIN), this again encases some…
Forgotten, The (2004): Dir. Joseph Ruben
Feat. Julianne Moore, Gary Sinise, Alfre Woodard…; A year after her young son is killed in a plane crash, Julianne Moore is told by authorities that he never existed and that she is suffering from…
Gankutsuou (TV Series) (Count of Monte Cristo, The) (2004): Born into an aristocratic family in Paris, Albert sets out on a journey with his best friend, Franz, to escape his privileged yet dull life. They…
Gantz (TV Series) (2004): Dir. Ichirô Itano; A kinetic and ultraviolent adaptation of Hiroya Oku's legendary 'manga' comics, beginning with the resurrection of several unconnected indivduals by…
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace (TV Series) (2004): Feat. Matthew Holness, Richard Ayoade, Alice Lowe; Richard Ayoade (THE IT CROWD) spun this radical late–night oddity with cohort Matthew Holness, who plays a fictional horror author and creator…
Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence (2004): Dir. Mamoru Oshii; Visually emphatic, conceptually flummoxing sequel to Mamoru Oshii's cyberpunk touchstone GHOST IN THE SHELL. Cybernetic detective Batou returns to…
Godzilla: Final Wars (2004): Dir. Ryuhei Kitamura
Feat. Akira Takarada; A 50th anniversary celebration of the GODZILLA movie franchise, with the big lizard coming up against a roll–call of old foes: Gigan, King…
Hellboy (2004): Dir. Guillermo Del Toro
Feat. Ron Perlman, David Hyde Pierce, John Hurt…; Surefire comicbook yarn – fusing Nazi occultism, demonic otherworlds and FBI intrigues with nice touches of style, humour and…
Howl's Moving Castle (2004): Dir. Hayao Miyazaki; Yet another miraculous animated odyssey from Hayao Miyazaki, who finds a perfect vehicle in the English fantasy novel by Diana Wynne Jones, about a…
I, Robot (2004): Dir. Alex Proyas
Feat. Will Smith, Bridget Moynahan, Bruce Greenwood…; Standard model adaptation of Isaac Asimov's 1950s sci–fi speculations about the dystopian possibilities of a robot–riddled…
Immortal (Immortel Ad Vitam) (2004): Dir. Enki Bilal
Feat. Charlotte Rampling, Thomas Kretschmann; Adapted from the astounding 'Nikopol Trilogy' comicbook, this futuristic parable is set in New York in 2095, where an Egyptian god hovers above the…
Lost (TV Series) - Season 1 (2004): Feat. Dominic Monaghan, Naveen Andrews, Harold Perrineau, Jr.…; One of the more daring, offbeat and addictive TV Series of recent years, this concerns the survivors of a plane–crash who find themselves…
Naruto - The Movie(s) (2004-2014): Dir. Tensai Okamura; The NARUTO series concerns its titular hero and his companions protecting the world from bands of rogue ninjas and other dangers in wait. In…
Night Watch (Nochnoi Dozor, aka. Nightwatch) (2004): Dir. Timur Bekmambetov
Feat. Konstantin Khabensky, Maria Poroshina, Dima Martinov; A mega–hit in its native Russia, this sci–fi–horror–action cocktail concerns a running battle on the mean streets of…
One Point 0 (1.0) (2004): Dir. Jeff Renfroe, Marteinn Thorsson
Feat. Jeremy Sisto, Deborah Kara Unger, Udo Kier…; An inventive science–fiction speculation, set in a delapidated future world in which a computer programmer (Sisto) begins to get mysterious…
Otogi Zoshi (2004): Dir. Mizuho Nishikubo; A historical fiction series from the I.G. Anime production house (makers of NINJA SCROLL and KAI DOH MARU) that achieves a good balance of action,…
Paranoia Agent (TV Series) (Mousou dairinin) (2004): Dir. Satoshi Kon; Beautifully animated and conceptually ambitious 'anime' TV series from the dir. of PERFECT BLUE, set in a present–day metropolis of social…
Place Promised in Our Early Days, The (2004): Dir. Makoto Shinkai; Evocative and measured anime, which bases its sci–fi storyline around a future Japan divided by civil war into two islands separated by…
Primer (2004): Dir. Shane Carruth
Feat. Shane Carruth, David Sullivan, Casey Gooden…; A group of computer engineers tinkering with technology in their garage (hoping to escape their dayjobs), reach a turning–point when two invent…
Punisher, The (2004): Dir. Jonathan Hensleigh
Feat. Tom Jane, John Travolta, Laura Elena Harring; A violent, straight–faced adaptation of the Marvel Comics hero (without superpowers), a traumatised cop who seeks to inflict grave punishment…
Resident Evil - Apocalypse (2004): Dir. Alexander Witt
Feat. Milla Jovovich, Sienna Guillory, Oded Fehr…; Sequel to the adaptation of the Playstation video game, has Jovovich returning for another blood–drenched 90 minutes trying to fight her way…
Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow (2004): Dir. Kerry Conran
Feat. Jude Law, Gwyneth Paltrow, Angelina Jolie…; Ambitious futuristic 'boys own' adventure sets up a scenario in which giant robots are attacking Earth in a 1930s retro–futuristic world of…
Spider-Man 2 (Spiderman 2) (2004): Dir. Sam Raimi
Feat. Tobey Maguire, Kirsten Dunst, Alfred Molina…; The webbed superhero swings back with a vengeance in this excellent sequel, dir. Raimi winding up the vertiginous action to exhilarating…
Stargate Atlantis (TV Series) (2004): Feat. Joe Flanigan; Further wormhole adventures from the Stargate universe, with this latest spin–off following a dispatch of scientists and military personal to…
Starship Troopers 2 (Starship Troopers 2: Hero of the Federation) (2004): Dir. Phil Tippett
Feat. Richard Burgi, Lawrence Monoson, Colleen Porch; Sequel to Paul Verhoeven's satirical futuristic sci–fi, which achieves much of the same thing on a fraction of the budget. The plot this time…
Steamboy (2004): Dir. Katsuhiro Otomo; A rapturous adventure set in quasi–futuristic Victorian England, where a young lad is given a "steamball" to take care of and becomes slowly…
Thunderbirds (2004): Dir. Jonathan Frakes
Feat. Bill Paxton, Ben Kingsley, Barry Corbet…; A live–action replay of the classic 60s sci–fi series which bears more relation to generic teen adventure than the spirit of the…
Transformers Energon (TV Series) (2004): Dir. Jun Kawagoe, Yutaka Sato; Fairly creditable sequel to the original animation series (following on from Transformers: Armada), with the Autobots and Decepticons living in peace…
Trekkies 2 (2004): Dir. Roger Nygard; A surprisingly compelling followup to the documentary TREKKIES, which peered into the strange world of American STAR TREK fandom. A tad upset by…
28 Days Later (2003): Dir. Danny Boyle
Feat. Cillian Murphy, Christopher Eccleston, Brendan Gleeson; Effective 'end of the world' thriller, where a scientifically–engineered contagion escapes the lab, turning most of Britain's populace into…
Angel (TV Series) - Season 5 (2003): Feat. David Boreanz; Fifth season of the BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER spin–off in which David Boreanaz plays an angelic vampire battling demons, serial–killers…
Animatrix, The (2003): Dir. Lilly Wachowski, Lana Wachowski; A collection of nine animated short films by various top ‘anime’ directors set within the backstory to THE MATRIX movie, some directly detailing…
Astro Boy (TV Series) (2003): An updated English–language version of the cult 60s TV Series, reprising the jet–powered robot lad and his adventures. Volume 1…
Battle Royale II: Requiem (Battle Royale 2) (2003): Dir. Fukasaku Kinji, Fukasaku Kenta
Feat. Tatsuya Fujiwara, Ai Maeda, Shugo Oshinari; Bolder and bloodier sequel that introduces 9/11–style terrorist topicality into its violent, 'last teen standing' scenario, with overt…
Battlestar Galactica (TV Mini Series) (2003): Dir. Michael Rymer
Feat. Edward James Olmos, Mary McDonnell; Glossed–up reprise of the late–70s sci–fi TV series, which replaces the cuteness with a more sombre tone, ethnic diversity and…
Bionicle: Mask of Light (2003): Animated spectacular from the makers of 'Lego', set on a half–mystical/half–futuristic islands of Mata Nui. Subject to a devious plot…
Butterfly Effect, The (2003): Dir. Eric Bress, J Mackye Gruber
Feat. Ashton Kutcher, Amy Smart, Eric Stoltz; A timewarping thriller with a touch of genuine B–movie originality, this portrays the unintended consequences when its young hero (Kutcher)…
Children of Dune (TV Series) (2003): Dir. Greg Yaitanes
Feat. Alec Newman, Julie Cox; Mini–series sequel to the Sci–Fi Channel TV–adaptation (with William Hurt) that maintains the purist approach with a complex…
Code 46 (2003): Dir. Michael Winterbottom
Feat. Tim Robbins, Samantha Morton; A cerebral, provocative 'future shock' thriller in which Tim Robbins and Samantha Morton try to conduct a forbidden affair in a politically…
Daredevil (2003): Dir. Mark Steven Johnson
Feat. Ben Affleck, Jennifer Garner, Colin Farrell…; The darkest tinged Marvel Comics adaptation yet, with Ben Affleck doing a sterling job of playing the titular superhero, a blind lawyer turned…
Doctor Who: Scream of the Shalka (TV Series) (2003): Dir. Wilson Milam
Feat. Richard E. Grant; Animated DOCTOR WHO series continuing the narrative of the original 1963–89 programme and DOCTOR WHO: THE MOVIE (1996), written by Doctor Who…
Equilibrium (2003): Dir. Kurt Wimmer
Feat. Christian Bale, Taye Diggs, Emily Watson; Modest, but intelligent sci–fi thriller, where a policeman misses his daily dose of emotion–lowering drug Prozium and realises the…
Godzilla: Tokyo SOS (2003): Dir. Masaaki Tezuka; More colossal mayhem from the never–ending franchise, with Japan vulnerable to a recuperated Godzilla, who will attack if government scientists…
Hulk (2003): Dir. Ang Lee
Feat. Eric Bana, Jennifer Connelly, Nick Nolte…; The thinking person's superhero actioner, this boldly revises the 1960s Marvel Comics icon, a mild–mannered scientist who, when triggered or…
Interstella 5555 (The 5tory of the 5ecret 5tar 5ystem) (2003): Dir. Kazuhisa Takenôchi; Quirky and well–crafted animated feature, which extends a series of music–videos by the French electronica group Daft Punk, which…
It's All About Love (2003): Dir. Thomas Vinterberg
Feat. Joaquin Phoenix, Claire Danes, Sean Penn…; A wacky, overambitious, though not unendearing flop for dir. Vinterberg (FESTEN), in which young couple Danes and Phoenix attempt to resolve the…
Kino's Journey (TV Series) (Kino No Tabe) (2003): Dir. Ryutaro Nakamura; Unusual and yet quietly rewarding Japanese anime about a young girl, Kino, who travels the world on her sentient motorcycle, Hermes, seeking wisdom,…
League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, The (2003): Dir. Stephen Norrington
Feat. Sean Connery, Stuart Townsend, Jason Flemyng…; A swanky action–adventure in Victorian period dress that’s enticing premise teams up heroes and villains from classic fiction – Allan…
Lord of the Rings - The Return of the King (Limited Edition) (2003): Dir. Peter Jackson, Costa Botes; Special limited edition re–release of Peter Jackson's final installment of the monumental J.R.R. Tolkien novel. Features both the theatrical…
Matrix Revolutions (2003): Dir. Lilly Wachowski, Lana Wachowski
Feat. Keanu Reeves, Laurence Fishburne, Hugo Weaving…; The 'Matrix Trilogy' concludes in a green–tinged maelstrom of CGI–enhanced action and conceptual confusion. Trinity (Moss) and…
Natural City (2003): Dir. Byung-chun Min
Feat. Ji-tae Yoo, Jae-un Lee, Rin Seo; A stylised high–tech thriller set in 2080 – after global war has destroyed much of civilisation – where an isolated metropolis has…
Nemesis Game (2003): Dir. Jesse Warn
Feat. Carly Pope, Ian McShane, Rena Owen; Twisted, overly enigmatic thriller shot in New Zealand, that concerns a student's obsession with a high–stakes game of riddles. Noticing…
Paycheck (2003): Dir. John Woo
Feat. Ben Affleck, Aaron Eckhart, Uma Thurman…; Action–orientated version of a typically complex Phillip K Dick sci–fi story, in which hero Affleck must contend with wiped memories,…
Planetes (TV Series) (2003): The year is 2075 AD. The dream of working and living in the vast openness of space is now a reality. However, a new threat has arisen and if left…
Spectres of the Spectrum (2003): Dir. Craig Baldwin; An experimental 'ficto–history' of the age of electricity onwards, which uses 'found' footage – kinescopes, early educational films,…
Star Wars - The Clone Wars (TV Series) (2003): Animated Star Wars 'micro' series set between EPISODE II: ATTACK OF THE CLONES and EPISODE III: REVENGE OF THE SITH, detailing the grand–scale…
Terminator 3 - Rise of the Machines (2003): Dir. Jonathan Mostow
Feat. Arnold Schwarzenegger, Nick Stahl, Claire Danes…; The final, belated chapter of the TERMINATOR series, minus the original director and most of the original cast, Schwarzanegger excluded. In many…
Timeline (2003): Dir. Richard Donner
Feat. Paul Walker, Gerard Butler, Frances O’Connor…; Time–travel actioner adapted from the novel by Michael Crichton (JURASSIC PARK) in which a group of students race through a wormhole in time to…
Tomb Raider - Cradle of Life (2003): Dir. Jan De Bont
Feat. Angelina Jolie, Noah Taylor, Ciaran Hinds; Equally preposterous (and fun) sequel to the first bigscreen incarnation of computer–game adventure idol Lara Croft. In this latest collection…
Tru Calling (TV Series) (2003-2005): Feat. Eliza Dushku; Paranormal TV drama with Dushku playing a morgue intern who discovers she can hear the voices of the recently deceased and reverse their fates.…
Adventures of Pluto Nash, The (2002): Dir. Ron Underwood
Feat. Eddie Murphy, Randy Quaid, Rosario Dawson…; Sci–fi comedy set in 2080 and following a lunar nightclub owner and ex–convict (Eddie Murphy) who is trying to keep the mafia out of his…
Alive (2002): Dir. Ryuhei Kitamura
Feat. Hideo Sakaki, Koyuki, Tak Sakaguchi; A convicted murderer is sentenced to death, only to escape execution and become the subject of bizarre prison experiments in this inventive marriage…
Angel (TV Series) - Season 4 (2002): Feat. David Boreanz; Season 4 of the BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER spin–off in which David Boreanaz plays an angelic vampire battling demons, serial–killers etc.…
Armitage - Dual Matrix (2002): Dir. Katsuhito Akiyama; Set on a future Martian colony amid growing tensions between humans and cyborgs, this digitally–enhanced anime puts action above ideas, but…
Blade 2 (2002): Dir. Guillermo Del Toro
Feat. Wesley Snipes, Kris Kristofferson, Ron Perlman…; Surpassing the original in both imagination and thrills, thanks primarily to dir. Del Toro (CRONOS), we again ride with…
Core, The (2002): Dir. Jon Amiel
Feat. Aaron Eckhart, Hilary Swank, Delroy Lindo; Overblown actioner in which scientists discover that the Earth's core will soon stop spinning, unleashing a wave of natural…
Cypher (2002): Dir. Vincenzo Natali
Feat. Jeremy Northam, Lucy Liu; A striking, coolly managed thriller, where future corporations mount elaborate espionage missions against each other using specially trained…
Dead or Alive 3 (Final) (2002): Dir. Takashi Miike
Feat. Sho Aikawa, Riki Takeuchi; Imaginative, futuristic final entry in a remarkable action trilogy that this time presents its anti–heroic pair toughing it out in a dystopian…
Dead Zone, The (TV Series) (2002-2006): Dir. Robert Lieberman
Feat. Anthony Michael Hall, David Ogden Stiers, Nicole De Boer; Surprisingly effective spinoff from the 1983 David Cronenberg–Stephen King film, with Hall playing a coma victim who upon awakening six years…
Demonlover (2002): Dir. Olivier Assayas
Feat. Connie Nielsen, Charles Berling, Chloe Sevigny…; An insinuating future–shock Euro–thriller, with Connie Neilsen as an attractive corporate executive caught in the…
Don't Ask Don't Tell (2002): Feat. Peter Graves; A sci–fi spoof that re–dubs minor 50's B–movie "Killer from Space" with new dialogue and a plot concerning a military scheme to…
Eight Legged Freaks (2002): Dir. Ellory Elkayem
Feat. David Arquette, Kari Wuhrer, Scarlett Johansson; Every decade produces at least one eight–legged monster movie, and this one for the CGI generation comes courtesy of Kiwi ‘bug…
Firefly (TV Series) (2002): Feat. Adam Baldwin; Devised by Josh Whedon, the creator of BUFFY and ANGEL, this intelligent sci–fi series concerns a small group of space–travellers aboard…
Ghost in the Shell - Stand Alone Complex (TV Series) (2002-2004): Dir. Kenji Kamiyama; A surprisingly excellent television sequel to the classic 'anime' of 1995, this chiefly concerns the life of a female police officer in a special…
Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla III (Godzilla Against Mechagodzilla) (2002): Dir. Masaaki Tezuka
Feat. Yumiko Shaku; The 27th film in the Godzilla franchise and the fourth film in the Millennium Series. Followed up with a direct sequel the following year, Godzilla:…
Haibane Renmei (TV Series) (2002): Dir. Tomokazu Tokoro; Accomplished Japanese anime TV series that shuns the usual props – weaponry, robots, demons, spaceships – for a bittersweet tale of a…
Hellsing (TV Series) (Herushingu) (2002): Adapated from his own manga comicbook by Kouta Hirano, this concerns the battle of survival of the Hellsing Organisation, a shadowy group which looks…
Ichi The Killer - Anime Version (2002): Dir. Shinji Ishidaira; An animated prequel to the ultra–violent Japanese thriller of the same title, this flashes back to explain how Ichi gained his psychopathic…
Impostor (2002): Dir. Gary Fleder
Feat. Gary Sinise, Vincent D'Onofrio, Madeleine Stowe; Conveniently released after MINORITY REPORT, this sci–fi noir also arises from a 1950s Philip K Dick story concerning identity and fate, with…
Lord of the Rings - The Two Towers (Limited Edition) (2002): Dir. Peter Jackson, Costa Botes; Special limited edition re–release of Peter Jackson's second installment of the monumental J.R.R. Tolkien novel. Features both the theatrical…
Lost World, The (TV Mini-series) (2002): Dir. Stuart Orme
Feat. Bob Hoskins, Peter Falk, James Fox…; Sterling BBC adaptation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s adventure novel, where an intrepid bunch of Victorians explore the Amazon jungle for dinosaurs…
Matrix Reloaded, The (2002): Dir. Lilly Wachowski, Lana Wachowski
Feat. Keanu Reeves, Laurence Fishburne, Carrie-Anne Moss…; Not called "reloaded" for no reason, the video–game influence presides over this second chapter of the Matrix trilogy – a sequel…
Men in Black 2 (2002): Dir. Barry Sonnenfeld
Feat. Tommy Lee Jones, Will Smith, Lara Flynn Boyle…; Recycling the characters, humour and premise of the first, this much–diluted sequel has Tommy Lee Jones lose his memory, giving Will Smith the…
Mercano the Martian (Mercano El Marciano) (2002): Dir. Juan Antin; Satirical Argentine animation about a Martian who crashes his flying saucer on Earth and thus stranded builds himself a virtual Mars on the internet.…
Minority Report (2002): Dir. Steven Spielberg
Feat. Tom Cruise, Colin Farrell, Max von Sydow…; An exhilarating science fiction thriller that lavishly realizes (and embellishes) a Philip K. Dick short story with the corporate muscle and…
Mobile Suit Gundam Seed (TV Series) (Kido Senshi Gundam Seed) (2002): In the Cosmic Era, mankind has developed into two subspecies: Naturals, who reside on Earth, and Coordinators, genetically enhanced humans capable of…
Odyssey 5 (TV Series) (2002): Feat. Peter Weller, Sebastian Roche, Christopher Gorham…; Good quality sci–fi series about a crew of five astronauts (led by Peter Weller) onboard a space shuttle who witness the destruction of Earth…
Reign of Fire (2002): Dir. Rob Bowman
Feat. Christian Bale, Matthew McConaughey; Fire–breathing dragons are woken from their millennial slumbers by repairmen in the London Underground, and begin laying waste to the earth in…
Resident Evil (2002): Dir. Paul Anderson
Feat. Milla Jovovich, Michelle Rodriguez; Lifted from the Playstation computer–game, this action–horror concerns an off–limits scientific installation which has become…
Returner (2002): Dir. Takashi Yamazaki
Feat. Takeshi Kaneshiro; Kitted out with a charismatic cast, CGI–action that delivers, and tongue–lightly–in–cheek, this slick, big–budget…
Robot Stories (2002): Dir. Greg Pak
Feat. Sab Shimono, Tamlyn Tomita; Four tales concerning the future interraction between humans and robots are explored with effective melodrama and cinematic crafting by…
Scorpion King, The (2002): Dir. Chuck Russell
Feat. Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson, Steven Brand; Spun off from the recent MUMMY remakes, this logically demented action–horror prequel concerns the struggle of Mathayus (played by WWF’s…
Signs (2002): Dir. M. Night Shyamalan
Feat. Mel Gibson, Joaquin Phoenix, M. Night Shyamalan…; Trading on a promise to explore the mysterious crop–circle phenomenon, the third supernatural blockbuster from M. Night Shyamalan instead…
Solaris (2002): Dir. Steven Soderbergh
Feat. George Clooney, Natascha McElhone, Jeremy Davies…; Revisiting Tarkovsky’s 1972 sci–fi epic, dir. Soderburgh sustains comparisons with a thoughtful, stately reprise of its mysterious story…
Spirited Away (2002): Dir. Hayao Miyazaki
Feat. Miyu Hiragi, Miyu Irino; Animation visionary Hayao Miyazaki gets to fully unlock his boundless imagination through the otherworldly adventures of an innocent young girl that…
Star Trek - Nemesis (2002): Dir. Stuart Baird
Feat. Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, LeVar Burton…; The ‘Next Generation’ film series continues with another competent adventure set around a fresh Romulan threat to the planet Earth. Sporting…
Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones (2002): Dir. George Lucas
Feat. Ewan McGregor, Natalie Portman, Hayden Christensen…; The attack of the most successful–ever movie franchise continues, with Lucas’ space–opera following further galactic struggles, in…
Stranded (Náufragos) (2002): Dir. Maria Lidon
Feat. Vincent Gallo, Maria de Medeiros; A team of astronauts crashland on the 'red planet' without hope of rescue, beginning a race against their diminishing oxygen supply to somehow find…
Teknolust (2002): Dir. Lynn Hershman-Leeson
Feat. Tilda Swinton, Jeremy Davies, Karen Black; Human and artificial frontiers overlap to intriguing effect in this independent feature propelled by Tilda Swinton in four incarnations – a…
Time Machine, The (2002): Dir. Simon Wells
Feat. Guy Pearce, Samantha Mumba, Jeremy Irons; Though directed by the great–grandson of H G Wells, this adaptation of the classic sci–fi fable glosses the humbling future vision of a…
X-Files, The - Season 9 (TV Series) (2002): Feat. Gillian Anderson, Robert Patrick, Mitch Pileggi…; The final season of the X–FILES saga divided audiences somewhat, with various loose strands having to be quickly resolved. Most longterm…
X-Men 2 (2002): Dir. Bryan Singer
Feat. Hugh Jackman, Famke Janssen, Patrick Stewart…; A new war between humans and mutants looks to boil over in this sure–footed sci–fi sequel, again steered by dir. Singer. Centred…
A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001): Dir. Steven Spielberg
Feat. Haley Joel Osment, Jude Law, William Hurt; Speculative sci–fi at its most fascinating and opaque, this project developed by Stanley Kubrick is comparable to 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY in…
American Astronaut, The (2001): Dir. Cory McAbee
Feat. Cory McAbee; Wobbling unusually between satire, male angst and experimental derring–do, this slice of outer orbit cinema is set in a grungy future existence…
Angel (TV Series) - Season 3 (2001): Feat. David Boreanz; Season 3 of the BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER spin–off series centred around an angelic vampire, played by David Boreanaz.
Avalon (2001): Dir. Mamoru Oshii; A landmark technical achievement from the director of Anime classic GHOST IN THE SHELL, this distinctive 'hybrid' Anime is curiously inspired by…
Broken Saints (TV Series) (2001): Dir. Brooke Burgess; One of the most celebrated online animations – which began as a grassroots guerilla exercise and grew into a sprawling, prize–winning…
Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band - Live in New York City (2001): Dir. Chris Hilson; Emmy award winning HBO concert film of the first ever major televised Bruce Springsteen performance, live at Madison Square Garden. 1–1 My…
Cowboy Bebop - The Movie (2001): Dir. Shinichiro Watanabe; A full–length adventure for the bounty–hunting crew of the spaceship 'Bebop', pursuing a bioterrorist across the Martian…
Dark Portals - Vidocq (2001): Dir. Pitof
Feat. Gerard Depardieu, Guillaume Canet, Andre Dussollier…; Before the diabolical CATWOMAN, French visual effects maestro Pitof directed this wildly eccentric 19th century mythology, pitting the historical…
Final Fantasy - The Spirits Within (2001): Dir. Hironobu Sakaguchi
Feat. Alec Baldwin, Steve Buscemi, David Sutherland…; Derived from a computer game scenario, this sci–fi actioner, set on an Earth ravaged by alien invasion, is notable as the first movie to…
Fruits Basket (TV Series) (2001): A teenage girl ingratiates herself to a mysterious family who are known to transform into animals of the Chinese Zodiac in this peppy comedy romance,…
Godzilla, Mothra and King Ghidorah: Monsters All Out Attack (GMK) (2001): Dir. Shusuke Kaneko
Feat. Chiharu Nîyama, Ryudo Uzaki, Masahiro Kobayashi…; Eagerly awaited redux of the GODZILLA brand by Toho Studios has its faults, but is surprisingly smart and effective overall. Like most GODZILLAs,…
Jimmy Neutron - Boy Genius (2001): Dir. John A Davis; Sophisticated animated feature from Nickelodeon TV is a mite hyperactive but is breathtaking in design and has a captivating story that will…
Jurassic Park 3 (2001): Dir. Joe Johnston
Feat. Sam Neill, Laura Dern, William H. Macy…; Sam Neill is the only original cast member to return (save a cameo from Laura Dern) for more run–around with the dinosaurs. Without…
Kai Doh Maru (2001): Dir. Kanji Wakabayashi; Short though superbly animated fable of ancient Japan concerning a young girl who is raised as a samurai warrior in feudal times. From the…
Lone Gunmen, The (TV Series) (2001): Feat. Bruce Harwood, Tom Braidwood, Dean Haglund…; An interesting spinoff series, this trails a trio of computer hackers who repeatedly cropped up in THE X–FILES, and were given a single season…
Lord of the Rings - The Fellowship of the Ring (Limited Edition) (2001): Dir. Peter Jackson, Costa Botes; Special limited edition re–release of Peter Jackson's first installment of the monumental J.R.R. Tolkien novel. Features both the theatrical…
Lost Skeleton of Cadavra, The (2001): Dir. Larry Blamire
Feat. Fay Masterson, Andrew Parks, Larry Blamire; A dead–on Z–grade movie parody that replicates the wooden acting, dumb dialogue, sloppy editing and cheap props of 50's "creature…
Mists of Avalon, The (2001): Dir. Uli Edel
Feat. Anjelica Huston, Joan Allen, Julianne Margulies; Interesting TV–Movie re–casting of the King Arthur mythology from the women’s – Igraine, Morgaine, Viviane, Gwenwyfer –…
Mutant X (TV Series) (2001-2004): Feat. John Shea, Victoria Pratt, Lauren Lee Smith…; Sci–Fi TV series about a team of "New Mutants" who possess extraordinary powers as a result of genetic engineering when used as test subjects…
Planet of the Apes (2001): Dir. Tim Burton
Feat. Mark Wahlberg, Helena Bonham Carter, Tim Roth; Attempting to “re–imagine” (rather than merely ape) the 1968 original, dir. Burton ups the ante with fiercer simians and darker…
Princess Blade (Shurayuki-Hime) (2001): Dir. Shinsuke Sato; Post–apocalyptic Japanese samurai action adapted from a graphic novel, employs a stark visual style to convey its tale of a disturbed young…
Reboot (TV Series) (2001): Dir. Steve Ball, Gavin Blair
Feat. Michael Benyaer, Sharon Alexander, Kathleen Barr; Popular Canadian CGI series set in a computer system where a group of sprites must defend their territory known as the 'Mainframe' from viruses and…
Rollerball (2001): Dir. John McTiernan
Feat. Jean Reno, Chris Klein, LL Cool J…; Now–notorious flop ‘remake’ of the James Caan original, set around the violent futuristic game of the title (kind of a cross between…
Smallville (TV Series) (2001): Feat. Tom Welling; TV–series set around the pre–adult existence of Superman a.k.a. Clark Kent (Tom Welling) in the small American town of Smallville. Pilot…
Star Trek - Enterprise (TV Series) (2001-2005): Feat. Scott Bakula; Probably the last in the ongoing TV STAR TREK sagas, this is set 100 years before Captain Kirk first set off into space. In the 22nd century, the…
Teenage Caveman (2001): Dir. Larry Clark
Feat. Andrew Keegan, Tara Subkoff, Richard Hillman; The highlight of a ‘Creature Feature’ series that updates drive–in fare of yesteryear, this delirious slab of camp set in a…
Titan A.E. (2001): Dir. Don Bluth, Gary Goldman
Feat. Matt Damon, Bill Pullman, John Leguizamo…; Unique combination of traditional animation and computer–generated images draws new inspiration from the debris of other sci–fi sources,…
Vanilla Sky (2001): Dir. Cameron Crowe
Feat. Tom Cruise, Jason Lee, Cameron Diaz…; A straight Hollywood remake of the Spanish sci–fi thriller OPEN YOUR EYES by the director of ALMOST FAMOUS – the result of which plays like…
Voices of a Distant Star (2001): Dir. Makoto Shinkai; A short but compelling 'anime' that was also written and animated by dir. Shinkai. Set on a future Earth, where the looming threat of Tarsians…
Volcano High (Whasango) (2001): Dir. Tae-gyun Kim; Wildly action–packed Korean thriller, set in a future high–school where combat–trained, telekinetic students and staff slug it out…
Wave Twisters (2001): Dir. Syd Garon, Eric Henry; From the album ‘Wave Twisters’, DJ Qbert’s turntable stylizations are transformed into a form of conceptual animated ecstasy through creative…
X-Files, The - Season 8 (TV Series) (2001): Feat. David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Robert Patrick; The continuing adventures of Scully and... Doggett (Patrick) in murky urban myths and higher conspiracies of America. With Duchovny appearing in only…
Amazon (Amazone) (2000): Dir. Phillipe De Broca
Feat. Jean-Paul Belmondo, Arielle Dombasle; Convoluted sci–fi adventure has jewel thief Belmondo stumbling upon an alien visitor in the guise of a twelve year old girl. Almost…
Andromeda (TV Series) (Gene Roddenberry's Andromeda) (2000-2005): Feat. Kevin Sorbo, Lisa Ryder, Keith Hamilton Cobb; Dystopian sci–fi series, based on unused material by STAR TREK creator Gene Roddenberry. Set thousands of years in the future around the…
Angel (TV Series) - Season 2 (2000): Feat. David Boreanz; Season 2 of the broodier spin–off from Buffy, and the series is finding it's feet after a sometimes shaky start in Season 1. 22 episodes over 6…
Arabian Nights (Mini-Series) (2000): Dir. Steve Barron
Feat. Jason Scott Lee, Rufus Sewell, Mili Avital…; Visually stunning retelling of One Thousand and One Nights, in which a mad Sultan weds his childhood friend, planning to execute her the following…
Battle Royale (Batoru Rowaiaru) (2000): Dir. Fukasaku Kinji
Feat. Takeshi Kitano, Chiaki Kuriyama, Tatsuya Fujiwara…; This hyper–kinetic, violent satire from Japan courted controversy (and a fair swag of hype) for its ‘irresponsible’ premise and searing…
Battlefield Earth (2000): Dir. Roger Christian
Feat. John Travolta, Forest Whitaker; Ludicrous though fun space–opera adapted from guru L. Ron Hubbard's book and a long–cherished project for Scientologist John Travolta.…
Buzz Lightyear of Star Command - The Adventure Begins (2000): Dir. Tad Stones; The TOY STORY character spins–off into his own franchise (still with Tim Allen’s voice) for an animated space–adventure battling…
Cell, The (2000): Dir. Tarsem Singh
Feat. Jennifer Lopez, Vincent D'Onofrio, Vince Vaughn; Entering the mind of serial killer might seem like a tired idea, but commercial supremo and visual stylist Tarsem Singh creates a impressively creepy…
Dark Angel (TV Series) (2000): Dir. Jessica Alba, David Nutter, Michael Katleman
Feat. Jessica Alba, John Savage; A James Cameron–created sci–fi series featuring Jessica Alba as an updated, genetically engineered version of La Femme Nikita.
Dune (TV Series) (2000): Dir. John Harrison
Feat. William Hurt, Alec Newman, Giancarlo Giannini; Frank Herbert’s sci–fi classic, a mixture of New Testament, pulp fantasy and T.E. Lawrence, where the galaxy is enslaved to a…
Dungeons and Dragons (2000): Dir. Courtney Soloman
Feat. Jeremy Irons; An elaborate yet hokey movie–isation of the popular fantasy role–play game, with the prestige casting of Jeremy Irons as the villain.…
Escaflowne: The Movie (2000): Dir. Kazuki Akane; Lavish, if much darker theatrical version of the popular anime TV series, reinventing its beloved heroine as a disenchanted high school girl…
Frequency (2000): Dir. Gregory Hoblit
Feat. John Caviezel, Dennis Quaid; Time–travel thriller tuned to an interesting premise – a NYPD cop speaks to his dead father via a ham radio. Features some…
Gen 13 (2000): Dir. Kevin Altieri; An at times violent, futuristic animation centred around a group of unwittingly super–powered army recruits who rebel against their military…
Godzilla Vs. Megaguiris (2000): Dir. Masaaki Tezuka
Feat. Shosuke Tanihara; The 25th film in the Godzilla franchise and the second film in the Millennium series. While the film uses the Godzilla suit from Godzilla 2000, it is…
Gospel According to Philip K. Dick, The (2000): Dir. Mark Steensland; A loosely–assembled scan through the unusual life and mind of influential sci–fi writer Philip K. Dick, whose twisting literary…
Hollow Man (2000): Dir. Paul Verhoeven
Feat. Kevin Bacon, Elisabeth Shue, James Brolin…; Unpleasant, one–dimensional sci–fi thriller that lavishes astonishing, groundbreaking special effects on a script that doesn't deserve…
Metropolis (2000): Dir. Rinataro; Visually splendid ‘future–noir’ set in a teeming, multi–leveled city, inhabited by several storylines: a detective quest, the…
Mission to Mars (2000): Dir. Brian De Palma
Feat. Gary Sinise, Tim Robbins, Don Cheadle; A loop–ily solemn mission to the red planet in the year 2020 with Gary Sinise, Tim Robbins and Don Cheadle, that threatens at times to overcome…
Pitch Black (2000): Dir. David Twohy
Feat. Radha Mitchell, Vin Diesel; A gang of space travellers crash land on a foreign planet (in a blistering opening sequence) where they confront infighting, a volatile prisoner and…
Possible Worlds (2000): Dir. Robert Lepage
Feat. Tilda Swinton, Tom McCamus, Sean McCann; A bittersweet sci–fi reflection on the possibility of a love when an individual exists in simultaneous parallel worlds. Constructed around…
Red Planet (2000): Dir. Anthony Hoffman
Feat. Val Kilmer, Carrie-Anne Moss, Tom Sizemore…; Attempting to colonise Mars in 2050, Val Kilmer, Carrie–Ann Moss, Tom Sizemore and a pesky robot helper suffer the NASA–jinx and…
Requiem From The Darkness (TV Series) (Kurayami no rekuiemu) (2000): A supernatural anime series set in the Edo period, in which an aspiring writer, Momosuke, sets out into the troubled land to collect 100 ghost…
Sixth Day, The (2000): Dir. Roger Spottiswoode
Feat. Arnold Schwarzenegger, Tony Goldwyn, Robert Duvall; Topical, intriguing premise about cloning is levelled out into being just another vehicle for the ailing star of Arnold Schwarzenegger. As an…
Space Cowboys (2000): Dir. Clint Eastwood
Feat. Clint Eastwood, Tommy Lee Jones, Donald Sutherland…; Director Clint Eastwood plays a specially trained astronaut who takes three of his retirement–age buddies into space on a mission to repair a…
Spriggan (2000): Dir. Hirotsugu Kawasaki; Spectacular ‘anime’ produced by Katsuhiro Otomo (AKIRA) that springs an elaborate futuristic plot, centred round the search for a…
Todd McFarlane - The Devil You Know (2000): Dir. Kenton Vaughan; A straightforward look at the life of comicbook 'wunderkind' Todd McFarlane, who got his start at Marvel comics drawing Spider–Man, and later…
What Planet Are You From? (2000): Dir. Mike Nichols
Feat. Garry Shandling, Annette Bening, Greg Kinnear…; Polarizing sci–fi sex comedy starring Garry Shandling as a human–looking alien from an emotionless all–male society is sent to…
X-Men (2000): Dir. Bryan Singer
Feat. Patrick Stewart, Halle Berry, Hugh Jackman…; Star Trek's Patrick Stewart gathers together an argumentative bunch of superheros with a variety of mutant powers, in a society where prejudice…
X-Men Saga (8 Films) (X-Men 1, 2 & 3; X-Men Wolverine; The Wolverine; X-Men Prequel Trilogy) (2000-2016): 8 X–MEN films in their special–edition versions in one set.
Xchange (2000): Dir. Allan Moyle
Feat. Kyle MacLachlan, Stephen Baldwin; With more than a few IQ points, this MATRIX–like thriller centres round the concept of body–swapping, in which one changes bodies to cut…
Bicentennial Man (1999): Dir. Chris Columbus
Feat. Robin Williams, Sam Neill, Embeth Davidtz; The indefatigable Robin Williams extends his range into the robotic, playing a household android who, over the course of 200 years learns what it is…
Big O, The (TV Series) (1999): Dir. Kazuyoshi Katayama; Reasonably inviting anime series is set in the noirish future of an 'Art Deco' metropolis ("Paradigm City") where the inhabitants have, except for…
Crusade (TV Series) (1999): Feat. Gary Cole, Peter Woodward; A short–lived BABYLON 5 spinoff, in which the inhabitants of Earth in 2267 AD, must combat a virulent plague that has been implanted in the…
Dragonball Z (TV Series) (1999): A violent Japanese children’s animation that features standoffs between various good and evil characters. Rather repetitive after a while, though…
Farscape (TV Series) (1999-2003): Feat. Ben Browder, Claudia Black; Suprisingly resourceful sci–fi series, with Channel 9 and Jim Henson collaborating in an extended saga of intergalactic intrigue. Human…
Fortress 2: Re-entry (1999): Dir. Geoff Murphy
Feat. Christopher Lambert, Pam Grier; Geoff Murphy helms this trashy, belated sequel to low–brow prison sci–fi pic, FORTRESS, with Christopher Lambert returning as one of the…
Futurama (TV Series) (1999): Dir. Various
Feat. Billy West, Katey Sagal, John Di Maggio; Matt Groening’s sci–fi followup show to THE SIMPSONS is a similarly clever adult–oriented cartoon, again with layers of satire and…
Godzilla - Millennium Series Boxset (Godzilla 2000; Godzilla vs Megaguirus; Godzilla, Mothra and King Ghidorah: Monsters All Out Attack; Godzilla vs Mechagodzilla (III); Godzilla: Tokyo SOS; Godzilla Final Wars) (1999-2004): Boxset of Godzilla's six most recent outings.
Godzilla 2000 (1999): Dir. Takao Okawara
Feat. Takehiro Murata, Hiroshi Abe, Naomi Nishida; A reverential GODZILLA 'sequel' that plays its tale of flying saucers, overgrown reptiles and sea monsters with sober, though good humoured verve.…
Harsh Realm (TV Series) (1999-2000): Feat. Scott Bairstow, D.B. Sweeney, Terry O'Quinn…; A US infantryman (Bairstow), about to be demobilised, is given one last mission – to test a top secret 'virtual reality' training game. It…
Heavy Metal 2000 (1999): Dir. Michel Lemire, Michael Coldewey; Sequels eschews the multiple story approach for a single storyline (from a graphic novel by Kevin Eastman, Simon Bisley and Eric Talbot) in which the…
Jin-Roh: The Wolf Brigade (1999): Dir. Hiroyuki Okikura
Feat. Michael Dobson, Mike Kopsa; Visually rich and tasteful ‘anime’ set in a slightly futurised post–WW2 Tokyo, where an anti–terrorist commando, suspended from duty,…
Matrix, The (1999): Dir. Lana Wachowski, Lilly Wachowski
Feat. Keanu Reeves, Laurence Fishburne, Hugo Weaving…; Computer hacker Keanu Reeves is singled out by a high–tech guerilla network and trained as an operative to seize power from the evil guardians…
My Favourite Martian (1999): Dir. Donald Petrie
Feat. Jeff Daniels, Christopher Lloyd; Family sci–fi comedy based on the US 60s TV series, with Jeff Daniels as the ordinary Joe who harbours a stranded extra–terrestrial…
Mystery Men (1999): Dir. Kinka Usher
Feat. Ben Stiller, William H. Macy, Hank Azaria…; Doing for the super–hero genre what PLEASANTVILLE did for 50s sitcoms, this frequently hilarious spoof sets a rag–tag team of…
Now and Then, Here and There (Ima, soko ni iru boku) (1999): Regarded for its unflinching depiction of ‘atrocities’ in a grim totalitarian society, this is an exceptionally bleak, if sufficiently grounded…
Red Dwarf (TV Series) - Series 8 (1999): Dir. Ed Bye
Feat. Chris Barrie, Craig Charles, Danny John-Jules…; More classic episodes with Rimmer, Lister, Cat, Kryten and Holly in the brilliant British sci–fi comedy. Available on 2 VHS tapes. Vol…
Roswell (TV Series) (1999): Feat. Brendan Fehr, Katherine Heigl, Colin Hanks; A unique melding of science fiction, rites–of–passage drama and teen comedy, this television series, like BUFFY, developed a similiar…
Samurai X - Trust (1999): Dir. Kazuhiro Furuhashi; Slick manga–animation set in 19th century feudal Japan and concerning the travails of an expert swordsman of divided loyalties.
Star Trek - Insurrection (1999): Dir. Jonathan Frakes
Feat. Patrick Stewart, F. Murray Abraham; Forging ahead with their own lucrative franchise, the Next Generation produce another winner which fans will rally round. Patrick Stewart and co. get…
Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999): Dir. George Lucas
Feat. Ewan McGregor, Liam Neeson, Samuel L. Jackson…; Po–faced revival of the billion–dollar STAR WARS money–spinner, jammed full of digital landscapes, excessive political exposition,…
Supernova (1999): Dir. Thomas Lee
Feat. Troy Larsen, Robert Forster, James Spader…; Aboard the hospital spaceship 'Nightingale', psycho–patient Troy Larsen is on the loose after gaining super–powers from an alien…
Thirteenth Floor, The (1999): Dir. Josef Rusnak
Feat. Craig Bierko, Gretchen Mol, Armin Mueller-Stahl; Handsomely designed but meandering virtual reality thriller with a now second–hand premise that flits between 1937 and 1999 and ultimately…
Thunder Stone (TV Series) (1999): Feat. Jeffrey Walker, Kate Keltie; Effective Aussie sci–fi kid's series of a heroic teenager who exists in a future where all animals have become extinct, once he figures out the…
Trekkies (1999): Dir. Roger Nygard; Comprehensive, eye–opening tour of the STAR TREK phenomenon and the lives of some of its more ardent devotees. Chuckle and gasp as Denise…
Tribe, The (TV Series) (1999-2003): Set in an post–apocalyptic future where all adults have been wiped out by a virus and children must fend for themselves by ganging up together,…
Virus (1999): Dir. John Bruno
Feat. Jamie Lee Curtis, Donald Sutherland, William Baldwin…; A Russian research vessel in the South Pacific is attacked by an alien life form that seeks to turn humanity into cyborg slaves, in this sci–fi…
Wild Wild West (1999): Dir. Barry Sonnenfeld
Feat. Will Smith, Kevin Kline, Kenneth Branagh…; The star and director of MEN IN BLACK and recoupled for this Sci–fi–Western–spoof, first aired as a popular,…
X-Files, The - Season 7 (TV Series) (1999): Feat. David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson; More adventures of the X–Files crew – this was also David Duchovny's final season.
Body Troopers (1998): Dir. Vibeke Idsoe
Feat. Adolf Bjerke, Sigve Boe, Leif Dubard; An adventure of the non–precocious variety, in which an 8–year–old boy is shrunk and injected into his sick grandfather's…
Cowboy Bebop (TV Series) (1998): Dir. Shinichiro Watanabe
Feat. Steven Blum, Beau Billingslea, Wendee Lee…; The futuristic adventures of animated bounty–hunter Spike Spiegel and pals on the frontiers of the solar–system, newly colonised to…
Cube (1998): Dir. Vincenzo Natali
Feat. Nicole De Boer, Nicky Guadagni, David Hewlett…; More than meets the eye of this enthralling dark–horse B–movie from Canada. Five strangers find themselves thrown together in a…
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…
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…
Truman Show, The (1998): Dir. Peter Weir
Feat. Jim Carrey, Laura Linney, Natascha McElhone…; A brilliantly conceived script by expat–Kiwi whizz–kid Andrew Niccol (GATTACA) finds consummate direction in the hands of esteemed…
Ultimate Matrix Collection (The Matrix, The Matrix Reloaded, The Matrix Revolutions) (1998-2003): Dir. Lana Wachowski, Lilly Wachowski; The original Matrix masterpiece, the two blockbuster sequels. hours and hours of bonus content. Whoa.
X-Files Movie, The (1998): Dir. Rob Bowman
Feat. David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson; Following the STAR TREK model, the '90s TV phenomenon, featuring terminally–perturbed FBI agents Mulder and Scully, beams up onto the big…
Alien Resurrection (1997): Dir. Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Feat. Sigourney Weaver, Winona Ryder, Ron Perlman; Sigourney is back from the dead in part four of the continuing Alien saga, this time in the hands of the French DELICATESSEN helmer who sneaks in as…
Anaconda (1997): Dir. Luis Llosa
Feat. Jennifer Lopez, Ice-Cube, Jon Voight…; Riverboat excursion through the Amazon proves treacherous for a bunch of wholly unsympathetic stock characters. Among giant man–eating snakes,…
Batman and Robin (1997): Dir. Joel Schumacher
Feat. George Clooney, Chris O'Donnell, Arnold Schwarzenegger…; It's George Clooney's turn in the batsuit, with Chris O'Donnell, Arnold, Uma and Alicia all able to indulge the designer fetish–wear, too. A…
Black Mask (1997): Dir. Daniel Lee
Feat. Jet Li, Lau Ching-wan; Mild–mannered librarian by day – pain–resistant, cool–garbed crime–fighter by night – Jet Li's engaging…
Contact (1997): Dir. Robert Zemeckis
Feat. Jodie Foster, Jena Malone, Matthew McConaughey…; The E.T.s phone Earth in this lavish adaptation of Carl Sagan's novel, with scientists retrieving alien radio signals from Somewhere Out There. …
Crime Traveller (TV Series) (1997): Feat. Michael French, Michele Riondino; Naturally inspired by Dr. Who, though with its own unique charms, this cult sci–fi series marries classic British sleuth fiction with the…
Event Horizon (1997): Dir. Paul Anderson
Feat. Laurence Fishburne, Sam Neill; This sleek monstrosity is worth a look for some reasonably scary special effects or if you just want reminding of what a masterpiece ALIEN really is.…
Fifth Element, The (1997): Dir. Luc Besson
Feat. Bruce Willis, Gary Oldman, Milla Jovovich…; Whether you think it's a gorgeous sci–fi masterpiece or narcissistic fluff, French director Luc 'Nikita' Besson's multi–million dollar…
Gattaca (1997): Dir. Andrew Niccol
Feat. Ethan Hawke, Uma Thurman; The big league writer/directing debut of ex–pat Wellingtonian and former London adman Niccol, is a highly intriguing thriller about the scary…
Lexx (TV Series) (1997): Dir. Various
Feat. Brian Downey, Eva Habermann, Michael McManus; This oddball sci–fi series follows four misfit characters aboard the Lexx, a giant, insect–esque spaceship that is also 'the most…
Lost World, The (Jurassic Park 2) (1997): Dir. Steven Spielberg
Feat. Jeff Goldblum, Julianne Moore, Pete Postlethwaite…; Spielberg steals a few licks from KING KONG for this perfunctory JURASSIC PARK sequel. Yup, its more of the same, really, so its no surprise that the…
Men in Black (1997): Dir. Barry Sonnenfeld
Feat. Will Smith, Tommy Lee Jones, Linda Fiorentino…; Far out effects, a slightly believable alien conspiracy plot and some savvy comic timing render this superior blockbuster fare. Will Smith and Tommy…
Mimic (1997): Dir. Guillermo Del Toro
Feat. Mira Sorvino, Jeremy Northam; A mutant strain of humanoid bugs come back to taunt entomologist Mira Sorvino, who enters into a fierce confrontation through the dank, falteringly…
Mortal Kombat: Annihilation (1997): Dir. John R. Leonetti
Feat. Robin Shou, James Remar, Talisa Soto; Bottom–of–the–barrel sequel to the hit vidgame–adaptation picks up immediately after the original concluded. Which is to say…
Open Your Eyes (Abre Los Ojos) (1997): Dir. Alejandro Amenabar
Feat. Eduardo Noriega, Penelope Cruz, Chete Lera; A surrealistic nightmare unfurled with Hitchcockian precision and irony, Eduardo Noriega plays a young–man–who–has–everything…
Princess Mononoke (Mononoke Hime) (1997): Dir. Hayao Miyazaki; A landmark animation that set box–office records in Japan and was a hit worldwide due to it’s stunningly smooth visuals, and complex,…
Red Dwarf (TV Series) - Series 7 (1997): Feat. Chris Barrie, Craig Charles, Danny John-Jules…; More classic episodes with Rimmer, Lister, Cat, Kryten and Holly in the brilliant British sci–fi comedy. Available on DVD or over 2 VHS…
Sleepwalker Project, The (TV Series) (Sleepwalkers) (1997): Feat. Bruce Greenwood, Naomi Watts; With a premise that's a cut above the usual sci–fi series imagination, this has a team of researchers at the Morpheus Institute use special…
Spawn (1997): Dir. Mark A. Z. Dippe
Feat. Theresa Randle, Martin Sheen; Mightily fluid digital FX are the primary inspiration in this version of Todd McFarlane's cult comic book, wherein the forces of light and darkness…
Spawn - The Movie (1997): Dir. Thomas A Nelson
Feat. Keith David, Richard Dysart, James Keane; Animated TV version of Todd McFarlane’s gothic comic book, melded into a feature–length movie. Includes the voices of Keith David, Richard…
Stargate SG1 (TV Series) (1997-1998): Feat. Richard Dean Anderson; Based on the rather average 1994 sci–fi movie, this series proved a long–running success, boosting the original concept with a more…
Starship Troopers (1997): Dir. Paul Verhoeven
Feat. Casper Van Dien, Dina Meyer; ROBOCOP man Verhoeven's 'ironic' take on Robert Heinlein's 1959 novel about a totalitarian future society whose perfectly toned young 'citizens' wage…
Tykho Moon (1997): Dir. Enki Bilal
Feat. Julie Delpy, Michel Piccoli; Mixed sci–fi odyssey features stunning art direction, but a rather shapeless plot involving an aging dictator’s search for life saving brain…
X-Files, The - Season 5 (TV Series) (1997): Dir. R.W. Goodwin, Kim Manners, Rob Bowman
Feat. Gillian Anderson, David Duchovny; Series 5 continues along the lines of Series 4, and is dominated by Mulder's series–long sustained belief that there are, actually, no aliens,…
Alien Autopsy Video (1996): Dir. Tom McGough; Documentary based around footage purporting to come from the Roswell, New Mexico UFO crash in 1947, showing an 'alien' being dissected. A suspect…
Arrival, The (1996): Dir. David Twohy
Feat. Charlie Sheen; Radio astronomer Charlie Sheen detects signs of intelligent life in outer space, and soon discovers hostile ET's, already intent on…
Barb Wire (1996): Dir. David Hogan
Feat. Pamela Anderson, Temuera Morrison; Pam Anderson bounces though an enjoyably trashy catalogue of apocalyptic–future cliches. Aside from the obvious attractions, it's worth seeing…
Buffy the Vampire Slayer - The Complete Collector's Edition (1996-2002): Feat. Sarah Michelle Geller; A boxed set that includes all seven series of BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER.
Crow: City of Angels, The (1996): Dir. Tim Pope
Feat. Vincent Perez, Mia Kirshner; Vincent Perez takes over from the late Brandon Lee as the dark angel of vengeance, hell–bent on ridding his designer–gothic stomping…
Dark Skies (TV Series) (1996-1997): Feat. Megan Ward, J.T. Walsh; Darkly imaginative series set in 1960s America, where a young couple is attempting to expose a hostile alien invasion, whilst struggling to stay one…
Doctor Who - The Movie [Paul McGann] (Dr. Who) (1996): Dir. Geoffrey Sax
Feat. Paul McGann, Eric Roberts; Paul McGann (WITHNAIL AND I) incarnates the Doctor in this feature–film revival, materialising in San Francisco on the eve of the millennium…
Dragonheart (1996): Dir. Rob Cohen
Feat. Sean Connery, Dennis Quaid, David Thewlis…; Medieval fantasy hokum highlighted by Sean Connery in drag! Drag–on, that is – the large lizard of legend variety. The sublime CGI…
Escape from L.A. (1996): Dir. John Carpenter
Feat. Kurt Russell; Carpenter's belated follow–up sequel to his cult smash ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK revives Kurt Russell as a straight–faced, world–saving…
Frighteners, The (1996): Dir. Peter Jackson
Feat. Michael J. Fox, Trini Alvarado, Peter Dobson…; A big–budget Hollywood hootenanny made in Miramar and starring Lyttleton harbour, this is a must–see for any self–respecting…
Independence Day (ID4) (1996): Dir. Roland Emmerich
Feat. Jeff Goldblum, Bill Pullman, Will Smith; Absurdly mega–hyped sci–fi blockbuster revels in its own trashiness, but to its credit revives an old high–concept with (then)…
Island of Dr. Moreau (1996): Dir. John Frankenheimer
Feat. Marlon Brando, Val Kilmer, Temuera Morrison; HG Wells' ever–timely tale of the perils of genetic science, featuring big–name Hollywood talent and a troubled production record, it…
Mars Attacks! (1996): Dir. Tim Burton
Feat. Jack Nicholson, Glenn Close, Annette Bening…; Tim Burton once again turns tacky into an art form, but this time with a monster budget to match the alien carnage. This gleefully (though…
Millennium (TV Series) (1996-1999): Feat. Lance Henriksen, Megan Gallagher, Klea Scott; Occult sci–fi series from the creator of The X–Files) following the investigations of ex–FBI agent Frank Black (Lance Henriksen),…
Mystery Science Theatre 3000 (1996): Dir. Jim Mallon
Feat. Trace Beaulieu, Michael J Nelson, Jim Mallon; Movie version of a popular cable show in which a B–movie (in this case, THIS ISLAND EARTH) is mercilessly heckled by a trio of 'witty'…
Neverwhere (Mini-series) (1996): Dir. Dewi Humphreys
Feat. Laura Fraser, Gary Bakewell; Highly worthwhile sci–fi confection from the pen of fantasy writer Neil Gaiman (MIRRORMASK), in which an 'ordinary' Londoner (Bakewell) one day…
Phantom, The (1996): Dir. Simon Wincer
Feat. Billy Zane, Treat Williams, Catherine Zeta-Jones; Billy Zane straps into purple tights to fight the depression–era blues and a supernaturally–empowered villain (Treat Williams). An…
Prophecy, The (1996): Dir. Gregory Widen
Feat. Christopher Walken, Eric Stoltz, Elias Koteas…; Christopher Walken plays the Archangel Gabriel(!), spreading terror on earth on behalf of a private vendetta in heaven. X–FILES fans should…
Rurouni Kenshin (TV Series) (Wandering Samurai; Legends of Kyoto; Tales of the Meiji) (1996-1999): Dir. Kazuhiro Furuhashi; Beloved adaptation of the manga series of the same name by Nobuhiro Watsuki, about a former assassin in the early Meiji period who takes a vow never…
Space Truckers (1996): Dir. Stuart Gordon
Feat. Dennis Hopper, Stephen Dorff, Debi Mazar…; A non–villainous Dennis Hopper plays a long–haul truckie of the future, toting a lucrative sealed cargo across the galaxy. Stephen Dorff…
Star Trek - First Contact (1996): Dir. Jonathan Frakes
Feat. Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes; Highly accredited STAR TREK entry in which an entirely new crew of the Starship Enterprise E come up against series arch–enemies The Borg……
Twelve Monkeys (12 Monkeys) (1996): Dir. Terry Gilliam
Feat. Bruce Willis, Brad Pitt, Madeleine Stowe; Ingenious time–travel epic is a long overdue shot in the arm to the sci–fi genre. Terry Gilliam (BRAZIL) notches up another beautiful and…
Ultraman - Zearth 1 (1996): Dir. Shinya Nakajima; A mockingly ludicrous homage to the long–running Japanese TV serial, in which the heroic MYDO (Mysterious Yonder Defence Organisation) must…
X-Files, The - Season 4 (TV Series) (1996): Dir. Rob Bowman, R.W. Goodwin, Kim Manners
Feat. Gillian Anderson, David Duchovny; Things get a little darker and much wider–spread in the fourth series, which both develops lots more mythology while raising the stakes for all…
Batman Forever (1995): Dir. Joel Schumacher
Feat. Val Kilmer, Tommy Lee Jones, Chris O'Donnell…; A new director and a new Batman (Val Kilmer) line up for this lucrative threequel. Its relentless onslaught of action has a rather numbing effect,…
City of Lost Children (1995): Dir. Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Marc Caro
Feat. Ron Perlman, Daniel Emilfork, Judith Vittet; Visual wonderstuff from the unique genius pairing of the creators of DELICATESSEN, this is as good a follow up as one could wish for. While…
Darkman II: The Return of Durant (1995): Dir. Bradford May
Feat. Larry Drake, Arnold Vosloo, Kim Delaney; Larry Drake returns as Durant in this direct–to–video sequel of Darkman with South African actor Arnold Vosloo taking over from Liam…
Downtime (1995): Dir. Keith Barnfather, Christopher Barry
Feat. Elizabeth Sladen, Nicholas Courtney, Deborah Watling; Doctor Who spin–off where the retired commander of The United Nations Intelligence Taskforce, an associate of the Doctor, attempts to defeat an…
Earthworm Jim (TV Series) (1995-1996): Feat. Dan Castellaneta; The groovy guardian of goodness, together with sidekick Peter Puppy, valiantly dig up the dirt on galactic evil–doers, in this often silly,…
Gamera: Guardian of the Universe (1995): Dir. Shusuke Kaneko
Feat. Shinobu Nakayama, Ayako Fujitani; Japanese Kaiju genre film (giant monsters!) which is the ninth inclusion to the Gamera film series, but enjoyable as stand–alone entertainment,…
Ghost in the Shell (1995): Dir. Mamoru Oshii; An Anime feature technically superior to AKIRA. There's car chases, shoot–outs, tongue–in–cheek dialogue aplenty, but where it…
Hideaway (1995): Dir. Brett Leonard
Feat. Jeff Goldblum, Christine Lahti, Alicia Silverstone; The director of LAWNMOWER MAN turns his high–tech sensibility to this enjoyably silly supernatural thriller in which family man Jeff Goldblum…
Johnny Mnemonic (1995): Dir. Richard Longo
Feat. Keanu Reeves, Dina Meyer, Ice-T…; Keanu Reeves as futuristic cyber courier, dude! Aimed well below the high–concept, author William Gibson gleefully cannibalizes much of his…
Judge Dredd (1995): Dir. Danny Cannon
Feat. Sylvester Stallone, Armand Assante; Hollywood again turns wine into water with this adaptation of the British cult comicbook. No underground cultural icon here, instead Sly Stallone is…
Landlock (1995): Dir. Yasuhiro Matsumura
Feat. Darryl Borden, Ally Coyote, Sarah Lafleur; Two–part techno mystical adventure features detailed anime character designs by Masamune Shirow, creator of GHOST IN THE SHELL.
Memories (1995): Dir. Katsuhiro Otomo, Tensai Okamura, Kouji Morimoto; A unique triptych, threaded loosely by its dystopian–future theme, that integrates three very different narratives and animation techniques…
Mortal Kombat (1995): Dir. Paul Anderson
Feat. Christopher Lambert, Robin Shou, Linden Ashby; Finally, a computer–game–turned–movie that's worth it's salt, this dispenses with story so it can devote itself entirely to the…
Neon Genesis Evangelion (1995): Dir. Hideaki Anno; Iconic Japanese manga set in the yeat 2015 on an Earth devasted by wars, and suddenly invaded by nearly invincible extraterrestrial "angels". An…
Nostradamus (1995): Dir. Roger Christian
Feat. Tcheky Karyo, Amanda Plummer, Julia Ormond…; Fact and fantasy seem at odds in this version of the life of famous visionary, Michel de Nostradame, however the subject provides plenty of intrigue.…
Outer Limits (TV Series) (1995-2002): A worthy and faithful 90s remake of the cult 60s series, exploring the extremities of humanity’s hopes and fears through science fiction scenarios…
Powder (1995): Dir. Victor Salva
Feat. Mary Steenburgen, Sean Patrick Flannery, Lance Henriksen; Teenage alienation is given a supernatural charge in this story of a terminally–isolated, albino–like youth with metaphysical…
Prophecy II & III, The (1995-2000): Feat. Christopher Walken; Two sequels in the 'PROPHECY' Series.
Screamers (1995): Dir. Christian Duguay
Feat. Peter Weller; Devastating economic bloc–wars have led to out–of–control self–mutating weaponry – a complex story held together by…
Sixty Million Dollar Man (1995): Dir. Yip Wai-Man
Feat. Stephen Chow (Chiao); Spoiled brat 'accident' victim Stephen Chow becomes a not–so–super hero when he is pieced back together Steve Austin–style for a…
Sliders (TV Series) (1995-2000): Feat. Jerry O'Connell, John Rhys-Davies; While experimenting in his lab, budding genius O'Connell unwittingly invents a teleportation device that slides open portals to alternate realities…
Species (1995): Dir. Roger Donaldson
Feat. Ben Kingsley, Michael Madsen, Forest Whitaker…; Ben Kingsley rounds up 'experts' (Michael Madsen, Forest Whitaker, Alfred Molina, Marg Helgenberger), a kind of A–Team of strange phenomena to…
Star Trek - Generations (1995): Dir. David Carson
Feat. LeVar Burton, Malcolm McDowell, James Doohan…; Capt. Picard and crew get their big–screen debut but are forced to call on the spirit of predecessor Capt. Kirk to assist them in a struggle…
Star Trek - Voyager (TV Series) (1995): Feat. Kate Mulgrew, Robert Beltran; As a spinoff TV series of the STAR TREK empire, this was not as high–achieving as DEEP SPACE NINE, but still holds it own with some good…
Strange Days (1995): Dir. Kathryn Bigelow
Feat. Ralph Fiennes, Angela Bassett, Juliette Lewis; Ralph Fiennes runs into all sorts of bother as a low–rent dealer of subversive pleasures encoded on diskettes. An ambitious,…
Tank Girl (1995): Dir. Rachel Talalay
Feat. Lori Petty, Malcolm McDowell, Ice-T…; Lori Petty is well cast as the rumbuncious heroine of Alan Martin and Jamie Hewlett's subversive comic strip. Purists may cry foul but though its…
Virtuosity (1995): Dir. Brett Leonard
Feat. Russell Crowe, Denzel Washington; Russell Crowe plays a computer–generated composite of 200 serial killers who escapes cyberspace and proves a formidable opponent for…
Waterworld (1995): Dir. Kevin Reynolds
Feat. Kevin Costner, Dennis Hopper, Jeanne Tripplehorn…; Most famous as a production fiasco, Kevin Costner made a painful public bellyflop with this MAD MAX on water. His film has many things to…
Whisper of the Heart (1995): Dir. Yoshifumi Kondo; A bookish, teenage girl grows into maturity through her love for a lad who wishes to be an Italian–trained violin–maker. With only…
Witch Hunt (1995): Dir. Paul Schrader
Feat. Dennis Hopper; Dennis Hopper plays P.I. Philip Lovecraft and becomes embroiled in the murder of a Hollywood producer with supernatural side–effects. Pleasing…
X-Files, The - Season 3 (TV Series) (1995): Dir. R.W. Goodwin, Rob Bowman, Kim Manners
Feat. Gillian Anderson, David Duchovny, Jack Black…; The third series keeps close to the high standards of season two, continuing to develop the conspiracy themes. Both Cancer Man and Skinner start to…
A.D. Police III (1994)
Angel Cop (1994): All episodes on one tape.
Death Machine (1994): Dir. Stephen Norrington
Feat. Brad Dourif, Ely Pouget, William Hootkins; A lethal hardware robot runs amok in a high–tech corporation. Its nerdish inventor fields the blame and is fired, but he has big plans for…
Fantastic Four (TV Series) (1994-1995): An animated TV series, in which Marvel Comic's superhero foursome – Mr. Fantastic, Invisible Woman, Human Torch and The Thing – battle…
Future Cops (1994): Dir. Wong Jing
Feat. Andy Lau, Jacky Cheung, Aaron Kwok; Good dumb fun is the pure agenda of this kitsch, kinetic fantasy–comedy based on the popular ‘Streetfighter’ arcade game. On the trail…
Guyver, The (1994): Ten parts on five cassettes.
Heroic Trio 2 - Executioners (1994): Dir. Johnnie To, Ching Siu Tung
Feat. Michelle Yeoh, Anita Mui, Maggie Cheung…; Downbeat sequel returns the trio of feisty femmes to combat the evil mega–corporation that taken a stranglehold on the world's…
Highlander 3: The Final Dimension (Highlander III) (1994): Dir. Andrew Morahan
Feat. Christopher Lambert, Mario Van Peebles, Deborah Kara Unger…; A psychotic immortal escapes his mountain tomb and seeks revenge of our sword–slinging hero. Third in the series is actually a prequel to…
M.A.N.T.I.S. (TV Series) (Mantis) (1994): Dir. Sam Raimi
Feat. Carl Lumbly, Roger Rees; A wheelchair–bound scientist becomes a crime–fighter after building himself a powerful exo–skeleton that gives him superhuman…
Machine, La (1994): Dir. Francois Dupeyron
Feat. Gerard Depardieu, Nathalie Baye; Gerard Depardieu goes into mad–doctor mode for this high–tech mind–transplant thriller, as a shrink/inventor whose fleeting…
Oblivion (1994): Dir. Sam Irvin
Feat. Richard Joseph Paul, Andrew Divoff, Isaac Hayes…
Ocean Girl (TV Series) (1994-1997): Feat. Marzena Godecki, Jeffrey Walker, Kerry Armstrong; Environmentally conscious Australian cult adventure series based around a mystical girl from under the sea who has the ability to communicate with…
Puppet Masters, The (1994): Dir. Stuart Orme
Feat. Donald Sutherland, Eric Thal, Julie Warner…; Sci–fi based on Robert A. Heinlein's 1951 novel of the same name, about an alien invasion in rural Iowa. When a mysterious spacecraft…
RoboCop (TV Series) (1994): Feat. Richard Eden, Yvette Nipar; A Canadian television adaptation of the RoboCop film series tailored for appeal to a younger demographic with toned–down violence. RoboCop here…
Roswell: The UFO Cover Up (Incident at Roswell) (1994): Dir. Jeremy Kagan
Feat. Kyle MacLachlan, Martin Sheen, Dwight Yoakam…; Credible dramatisation of events surrounding the world's most documented UFO sighting in New Mexico, 1947. Kyle MacLachlan plays the military officer…
Royal Space Force (Wings of Honnemaise) (1994): Dir. Hiroyuki Yamaga; Quality Anime feature distinguishes itself by taking its time to develop story and character, as well as boasting intricate animation. Score by…
Space Precinct (TV Series) (1994): Feat. Ted Shackelford, Rob Youngblood, Simone Bendix; One of the more recent Gerry 'Thunderbirds' Anderson productions revolves around high–tech policeman in outer space. Using human actors…
Stargate (1994): Dir. Roland Emmerich
Feat. Kurt Russell, James Spader, Jaye Davidson; Kurt Russell and James Spader headline this big–budget spectacle. Promising start evokes the epic adventure intrigue of a LAWRENCE OF ARABIA,…
Street Fighter II: The Animated Movie (1994): Dir. Gisaburô Sugii; Bison, the ruthless leader of the international terrorist organization Shadowlaw, has been desperately searching for the greatest fighter on the…
Tekwar (TV Series) (1994-1996): Feat. Greg Evigan, Eugene Clark, William Shatner; Ropey but enjoyable future–noir adapted from William Shatner's sci–fi novels, about a police officer framed for murder and trafficking…
Timecop (1994): Dir. Peter Hyams
Feat. Jean-Claude Van Damme, Mia Sara, Ron Silver…; Big–budget sci–fi film disabled by a banal script and a leaden leading man. Jean Claude Van Damme plays a 21st Century cop who tracks…
X-Files, The - Season 2 (TV Series) (1994): Dir. David Nutter, Daniel Sackheim, Rob Bowman
Feat. Gillian Anderson, David Duchovny; The second series is probably the strongest, getting a real kick from Scully's abduction by aliens in the 2 parter Duane Barry/ Ascension early in…
Babylon 5 (TV Series) (1993): Dir. Richard Compton
Feat. Michael O'Hare, Bruce Boxleitner, Claudia Christian…; Renegade staff from Star Trek's Next Generation developed their own series for an opposition TV network. Computer generated effects give them a run…
Babylon 5: The Movie Collection (The Gathering, In The Beginning, Thirdspace, River of Souls, Call to Arms) (1993-1999): Dir. Richard Compton, Michael Vejar, Jesús Salvador Treviño
Feat. Bruce Boxleitner; Compilation of the five TV–movies made as stand alones during Babylon–5's five year run.
Batman: Mask of the Phantasm (1993): Feat. Kevin Conroy, Dana Delany; Adapted from the suitably nasty TV series, this exciting animated feature manages to deliver loads of action and black humour without detracting from…
Battle Angel Alita (Gunnm) (1993): Adapted from the work of Yukito Kishiro, this anime concerns a refitted female cyborg, who rediscovers her lost fighting skills. Set in a distant…
Body Snatchers (1993): Dir. Abel Ferrara
Feat. Meg Tilly, Gabrielle Anwar; Director Ferrara adds visceral punch to the sci–fi staple about an alien life force that takes over human bodies in their sleep. The third…
Coneheads (1993): Dir. Steve Barron
Feat. Dan Aykroyd, Jane Curtin; Slightly strained attempt at stretching a five–minute sketch idea with its one–note 'alien' novelty. Dan Aykroyd and Jane Curtin reprise…
Demolition Man (1993): Dir. Marco Brambilla
Feat. Sylvester Stallone, Wesley Snipes, Sandra Bullock…; Sylvester Stallone and Wesley Snipes are cryogenically thawed in a totalitarian, crime–free L.A. in 2032 where their cop/villain…
Fire in the Sky (1993): Dir. Robert Lieberman
Feat. D.B. Sweeney, Robert Patrick, Craig Sheffer; Allegedly true account of a lumberjack who claimed to suffer a horrific ordeal aboard an alien space craft. Maybe laughable to skeptics, but genre…
Geno Cyber I (1993)
Geno Cyber II & III (1993)
Ghost in the Machine (1993): Dir. Rachel Talalay
Feat. Karen Allen, Chris Mulkey; Computer effects ala THE LAWNMOWER MAN punctuate this high–tech thriller in which a serial–killer does some heavy–duty destruction…
Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla II (1993): Dir. Takao Okawara; The 20th film in the Godzilla franchise and the fifth film in the Heisei series, but in fact not a sequel to 1974's Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla.
Guyver - Dark Hero (1993): Dir. Steve Wang
Feat. Dave Hayter, Kathy Christopherson, Bruno Gianotta; Live–action adaptation of the Japanese comic–book hero ever engaged in combat with the evil Kronos Corporation. Fast cutting and sly…
Heroic Trio (1993): Dir. Johnnie To
Feat. Maggie Cheung, Michelle Yeoh; An invisible criminal is stealing babies for a sewer–dwelling villain and it's up to three dazzling super–chicks. Hugely entertaining…
Jurassic Park (1993): Dir. Steven Spielberg
Feat. Sam Neill, Laura Dern, Jeff Goldblum…; Richard Attenborough's eccentric billionaire has perfected his tropical island themepark. With cutting edge science; he has revived the dinosaurs!…
Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman (TV Series) (1993-1997): Feat. Dean Cain, Teri Hatcher; Popular T V serialisation of the 'Superman' story, with Cain playing the superhero who doubles as meek journalist Clark Kent, and Hatcher playing his…
Macross Plus: Complete Collection (1993)
Ninja Scroll (1993): Dir. Yoshiaki Kawajiri; Top rate period manga.
Red Dwarf (TV Series) - Series 6 (1993): Feat. Chris Barrie, Craig Charles, Danny John-Jules…; More classic episodes with Rimmer, Lister, Cat, Kryten and Holly in the brilliant British sci–fi comedy. Available on 2 VHS tapes. Vol…
Robocop 3 (1993): Dir. Fred Dekker
Feat. Robert Burke, Nancy Allen, Rip Torn…; Replacing Peter Weller in this final installment is Robert Burke.
Seaquest DSV (TV Series) (1993): Feat. Roy Scheider; Deep sea is the final frontier in this popular mid–nineties riff on STAR TREK, logging the oceanic adventures of an advanced submersible vessel…
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (TV Series) (Deep Space 9) (1993): Feat. Avery Brooks, Rene Auberjonois, Alexander Siddig…; Son of the Next Generation, this initiated a new tele series for trekkies to indulge. Intrepid officers of Starfleet acquire an abandoned alien space…
Stranger, The (TV Series) (1993): Dir. Bill Baggs
Feat. Colin Baker, Nicola Bryant; Dr. Who by another name after Hollywood bought the rights to a big–screen version. Colin Baker is The Stranger. Two episodes: Summoned by…
Typhon's People (1993): Dir. Yvonne MacKay
Feat. Alfred Molina, Sophie Lee, Michael Hurst…; Capable sci–fi thriller, scripted by Margaret Mahy, concerning dodgy genetic–engineering in a remote NZ research station. Stars local…
Wicked City (1993): Human and demonic worlds converge in this brooding anime horror, memorable for its sexually violent imagery and, in particular, its spider–like…
X-Files, The - Season 1 (TV Series) (1993): Dir. Robert Mandel, Daniel Sackheim, Harry Longstreet
Feat. Gillian Anderson, David Duchovny; The first series of the sci fi TV phenomenon – not quite finding the shape of the mythology of later seasons, but with some excellent episodes…
Alien 3 (1992): Dir. David Fincher
Feat. Sigourney Weaver, Charles S. Dutton, Pete Postlethwaite…; Third entry suffers from its plagued production history, but still emerges as an enjoyable piece of hokum and Sigourney is as terrific as always.
Army of Darkness (Evil Dead 3) (1992): Dir. Sam Raimi
Feat. Bruce Campbell, Embeth Davidtz; Raimi's third 'Evil Dead' movie is an out–and–out Pythonesque comic–fantasy in which the hero, Ash, confronts simpleton locals and…
Batman Returns (1992): Dir. Tim Burton
Feat. Michael Keaton, Danny De Vito, Michelle Pfeiffer…; The lone Bat returns to defend Gotham City from Catwoman (Michelle Pfeiffer) and The Penguin (Danny De Vito). Everything you loved or loathed about…
Batman: The Animated Series (1992-1995): Respectful and crafted TV animation of the much–adapted Bob Kane comicbook, with Bruce Wayne transforming himself into a terrifying superhero…
Body Parts (1992): Dir. Eric Red
Feat. Jeff Fahey; Criminal psychologist Jeff Fahey loses his arm in a car accident and becomes the recipient of an homicidal donor arm! Unsettling thriller soon takes…
Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1992): Dir. Fran Rubel Kuzui
Feat. Luke Perry, Donald Sutherland, Rutger Hauer…; Perry, Paul 'Pee Wee' Reubens, Sutherland, Hauer and Swanson bring to life this bubbly froth about an adolescent bimbo who finds herself chosen to…
Cool World (1992): Dir. Ralph Bakshi
Feat. Brad Pitt, Kim Basinger, Gabriel Byrne; Cartoonist Gabriel Byrne is seduced into the animated world of his sexy creation in this dense, saucy amalgam of live–action and animation for…
Cyberpunk (1992): Dir. Marianne Trench
Feat. William Gibson, Timothy Leary; Low–budget insight into the cyberpunk counter–culture. Author William Gibson and many hangers–on offer their view of what it means…
Delicatessen (1992): Dir. Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Marc Caro
Feat. Marie-Laure Dougnac, Dominique Pinon, Karin Viard…; Two former Ad–men splash down with an audacious, darkly comic masterpiece set in a vegetarianist, post–apocalyptic future. Consumed with…
Doomed Megalopolis Pt.s 1 & 2 (1992)
Fist of the North Star (1992)
Fortress (1992): Dir. Stuart Gordon
Feat. Christopher Lambert, Loryn Locklyn; Christopher Lambert winds up in a high–tech penitentiary where one can't even dream without being brutally reprimanded, except when it suits…
Freejack (1992): Dir. Geoff Murphy
Feat. Emilio Estevez, Mick Jagger, Anthony Hopkins; Champion race driver Emilio Estevez is rescued from death and beamed into 2009 where he soon sets about kicking the totalitarian asses of both Mick…
Lawnmower Man, The (1992): Dir. Brett Leonard
Feat. Pierce Brosnan, Jeff Fahey, Jenny Wright; Tech–head Pierce Brosnan unwittingly transforms his simple–minded gardener into a megalomaniac. This first feature to explore 'Virtual…
Red Dwarf (TV Series) - Series 5 (1992): Feat. Chris Barrie, Craig Charles, Danny John-Jules…; More classic episodes with Rimmer, Lister, Cat, Kryten and Holly in the brilliant British sci–fi comedy. Available on 2 discs or tapes.…
Saviour of the Soul (1992): Dir. David Lai
Feat. Andy Lau, Aaron Kwok; Breathtaking camerawork and special effects combine with hallucinatory plotting as two city–dwelling mercenaries do battle with the silver fox,…
Scanners 3: The Takeover (1992): Dir. Christian Duguay
Feat. Liliana Komorowska; Third in the SCANNERS trilogy with another fresh set of characters built around the concept of humans with telepathic powers. Liliana Komorowska…
Split Second (1992): Dir. Tony Maylam
Feat. Rutger Hauer, Kim Cattrall; It's 2008, and Rutger Hauer must use his devastating machismo to rid a flooded London of the ultimate alien killing machine.
Universal Soldier (1992): Dir. Roland Emmerich
Feat. Jean-Claude Van Damme, Dolph Lundgren; Van Damme and Lundgren team for this big–budget futuristic romp with an extravagance of punch–ups, explosions and wisecracks.
Wild Palms (TV Series) (1992): Dir. Peter Hewitt, Kathryn Bigelow, Keith Gordon
Feat. James Belushi, Dana Delany, Angie Dickinson…; Grandly stylised mini–series heavily inspired by TWIN PEAKS yet almost as worthy in spite of big lug James Belushi in the lead role. After…
3 X 3 Eyes (1991): Two parts two tapes.
Crying Freeman (1991): Six part serial over 5 tapes Chapter 1: Portrait of a Killer Chapter 2: The Enemy Within Chapter 3: Retribution Chapter 4: The Hostages Chapter…
Flash, The (TV Series) (1991): Feat. John Wesley Shipp, Amanda Pays, M. Emmet Walsh…; Vastly underrated TV adaptation of the DC comicbook hero, in which a forensic detective (Shipp) has a laboratory accident which causes the molecules…
Godzilla - Heisei Series Boxset (Godzilla vs King Ghidorah; Mothra; Mechagodzilla II; Spacegodzilla; Destoroyah) (1991-1995): Five Godzilla showdowns from the Heisei Studio era. Includes the follow films: GODZILLA vs KING GHIDORAH, GODZILLA vs MOTHRA, GODZILLA vs…
Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah / Godzilla vs. Mothra (1991-1992): Dir. Kazuki Omori, Takao Okawara
Feat. Anna Nakagawa; A double–feature of later 'Godzilla' films from the unofficial 'Heisei' era of the early 1990s. In GODZILLA VS. KING CHIDORAH, Godzilla…
Highlander 2 (1991): Dir. Russell Mulcahy
Feat. Christopher Lambert, Sean Connery, Michael Ironside…; Sequel to the video blockbuster of the 80's sees the back–story of the original film ditched and Scottish immortal MacLeod now in fact an alien…
Legend of the Four Kings (1991): Four parts on two cassettes.
Red Dwarf (TV Series) - Series 4 (1991): Feat. Chris Barrie, Craig Charles, Danny John-Jules…; More classic episodes with Rimmer, Lister, Cat, Kryten and Holly in the brilliant British sci–fi comedy. Available on 2 VHS tapes or a…
Robotrix (1991): Dir. Luk Kim Ming
Feat. Amy Yip; A scientist's discovery that the mind of a dying person can be transferred to a robot leads to perversion. Controversial sci–fi/exploitation…
Rocketeer, The (1991): Dir. Joe Johnston
Feat. Bill Campbell, Jennifer Connelly, Alan Arkin…; A young pilot stumbles upon a jetpack that enables him to fly, but greedy villains lurk in the wings. Exciting update of the comicbook hero evokes…
Roujin Z (1991): Dir. Hiroyuki Kitakubo; Futuristic morality tale from writer Katsuhiro Otomo (AKIRA) about a compassionate young nurse who is determined to help an elderly invalid strapped…
Scanners 2: The New Order (1991): Dir. Christian Duguay
Feat. David Hewlett, Deborah Raffin; Reasonable sequel without originator Cronenberg's involvement, about a breed of humans with strong psychic abilities that are seen as a threat to…
Star Trek VI - The Undiscovered Country (1991): Dir. Nicholas Meyer
Feat. William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley…; Gracious conclusion to the film series featuring the original cast. Combines great special effects, a plot with a social conscience, and some deft…
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2: The Secret of the Ooze (1991): Dir. Michael Pressman
Feat. David Warner; A sillier, brighter, bigger–budgeted follow up to the original early 90s kids hit.
Terminator 2: Judgement Day (1991): Dir. James Cameron
Feat. Arnold Schwarzenegger, Linda Hamilton, Edward Furlong; The ultimate Sci–fi action picture, it shamelessly flaunts its $100 million budget with Big Arnie playing second fiddle to a plethora of…
Tetsuo II: Body Hammer (1991): Dir. Shinya Tsukamoto
Feat. Nobu Kanaoka, Iwata; Sensational sequel is everything fans of the first one should expect, and much more. A full length, Technicolor, ultra–slick revision of…
Timescape (1991): Dir. David Twohy
Feat. Jeff Daniels; Jeff Daniels sets about rescuing his town from catastrophe when he learns the secret of an alien tourist party on his front doorstep. Engaging…
Until the End of the World (1991): Dir. Wim Wenders
Feat. William Hurt, Solveig Dommartin, Sam Neill; Wim Wenders dream project, shot in nine countries, concerns global ambling at the end of the millenium before developing its best idea about…
Wedlock (1991): Dir. Lewis Teague
Feat. Rutger Hauer, Mimi Rogers; Rutger Hauer and Mimi Rogers escape a high–tech prison but are bound by a security device that will explode if they stray more than 100 yards…
Zeram (1991): Dir. Keita Amamiya
Feat. Yuko Moriyama, Kunihiro Ida, Yukijiro Hotaru; A ninja babe bounty hunter and two hapless mortals are stalked by a mutating alien in this engaging live–action 'manga'. Beefing up its…
Arachnophobia (1990): Dir. Frank Marshall
Feat. Jeff Daniels, Harley Jane Kozak, John Goodman…; A rare breed of poisonous spider begin to bump off members of an idyllic rural community. Enjoyable 'monster' movie with deft humour finding its way…
Back to the Future 3 (1990): Dir. Robert Zemeckis
Feat. Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd, Mary Steenburgen…; Fun conclusion to the trilogy sends Marty McFly back to the wild west to resolve the havoc he created in part 2.
Captain America (1990): Dir. Albert Pyun
Feat. Matt Salinger, Ronny Cox, Ned Beatty…; Archetypal superhero adventure pits Marvel's oldest freedom fighter against the fascist ills of arch nemesis the Red Skull. Dirt–cheap…
Cyber City Oedo 808 (1990): Three parts three cassettes.
Darkman (1990): Dir. Sam Raimi
Feat. Liam Neeson, Frances McDormand, Colin Friels; A superhero emerges from a scientist charred beyond recognition, but able to assume the identity of anyone he chooses. Fun all the way, with the…
Devil Man - The Demon Bird (1990)
Flash, The (1990): Dir. Robert Iscove
Feat. John Wesley Shipp; A DC Comics superhero, The Flash (John Wesley Shipp) is renowned for his ultra–swift speediness, and while this TV–movie has great…
Flatliners (1990): Dir. Joel Schumacher
Feat. Julia Roberts, Kiefer Sutherland, Kevin Bacon…; Young medical students experiment with their own deaths amid splendid gothic architecture. An intriguing premise is blown up to biblical proportions…
Frankenstein Unbound (1990): Dir. Roger Corman
Feat. John Hurt, Raul Julia, Bridget Fonda; John Hurt stars as a 21st century scientist who is thrown back to 19th century England, where Frankenstein's creature and other famous Brits run…
Handmaid's Tale, The (1990): Dir. Volker Schlondorff
Feat. Natasha Richardson, Robert Duvall, Faye Dunaway; Disturbing but thoroughly rewarding version of Margaret Atwood's novel set in a near future where 99% of women have become infertile. Privileged…
Hardware (1990): Dir. Richard Stanley
Feat. Dylan McDermott, Lemmy , Iggy Pop; A bone–crunching excursion through a warped, MAX HEADROOM–like future where machines pose a major health hazard. In an undernourished…
Moon 44 (1990): Dir. Roland Emmerich
Feat. Michael Pare, Lisa Eichhorn, Malcolm McDowell; Low–rent, but tolerable sci–fi action set on a remote corporate mining colony which is under siege from rival interests. Pare plays an…
Patlabor 2 (1990): First sequel to the cult movie based upon the Japanese anime TV Series concerning a future Tokyo, where Mobile Police enforce the law.
Predator 2 (1990): Dir. Stephen Hopkins
Feat. Danny Glover, Gary Busey, Ruben Blades…; No Arnie this time, but the evil alien is back (he was cheaper) for another bout of human carnage. This time downtown Detroit gets the brunt of its…
Robocop 2 (1990): Dir. Irvin Kershner
Feat. Peter Weller; Peter Weller returns as the cyber–policeman in this violent sequel.
Total Recall (1990): Dir. Paul Verhoeven
Feat. Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sharon Stone; From the heyday of the Arnold Schwarzenegger craze, this excellent sci–fi thriller boasts a massive f/x budget, Sharon Stone and a Phillip K…
Tremors (1990): Dir. Ron Underwood
Feat. Kevin Bacon, Fred Ward, Michael Gross; Exciting tongue–in–cheek horror flick in the tradition of 50s 'Creature Features' has Kevin Bacon and Fred Ward among the desert yokels…
Violence Jack (1990): Dir. Takuya Wada
Feat. Minako Arakawa, Issei Futamata; Three–part compilation of post–apocalyptic, subterranean episodes from the creator of the DEVIL MAN series. Banned in Australia,…
Abyss, The (1989): Dir. James Cameron
Feat. Ed Harris, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Michael Biehn; Ed Harris leads a civilian diving team who encounter an alien aquatic species while searching for a lost nuclear submarine. Director James…
Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1989): Dir. Terry Gilliam
Feat. Oliver Reed, Uma Thurman, Robin Williams; An elaborate and hugely expensive adventure for dir. Gilliam who successfully visualises the fantastic tall–tales of the real–life 18th…
Akira (1989): Dir. Katsuhiro Otomo; Dazzling cyberpunk animated feature adapted from the cult comic books, it's a violent, anarchic, wildly ambitious ride through Neo–Tokyo in…
Alien Nation (TV Series) (1989-1990): Feat. Gary Graham, Eric Pierpoint; From the creator of "V" comes this sci–fi police procedural series based on the 1988 feature film about an LA police officer reluctantly…
As Time Goes By (1989): Dir. Barry Peak
Feat. Bruno Lawrence; A distinctively Oz sci–fi comedy, centering around a strange encounter between a knockabout surfer and a time–travelling alien.
Back to the Future 2 (1989): Dir. Robert Zemeckis
Feat. Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd, Lea Thompson…; Second part of the trilogy has Marty McFly catapulted into 2020 and back again into a dark alternate reality. With Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd,…
Batman (1989): Dir. Tim Burton
Feat. Michael Keaton, Jack Nicholson, Kim Basinger; The box–office sensation that almost survived its own hype. Jack Nicholson's Joker and the incredible set designs will ensure it to be…
Batman Anthology (Batman, Batman Returns, Batman Forever, Batman & Robin) (1989-1997): The four first BATMAN films in their 2–disc special edition versions.
Club Extinction (Dr. M) (1989): Dir. Claude Chabrol
Feat. Alan Bates, Jennifer Beals, Jan Niklas…; Chabrol’s re–examination of Fritz Lang’s DR MABUSE is set in a future Berlin saturated with Big Brother messages and a plague of…
Communion (1989): Dir. Phillipe Mora
Feat. Christopher Walken, Lindsay Crouse; Based on the ‘experiences’ of novelist Whitley Strieber, who claimed multiple abductions by aliens, this has Christopher Walken whisked away for…
Cyborg (1989): Dir. Albert Pyun
Feat. Jean-Claude Van Damme; Inglorious "sword–and–sci–fi" vehicle for the then–rising star of Jean Claude Van Damme, directed by prolific trash merchant,…
Dominion Tank Police (1989): Four parts on two cassettes.
Fly 2, The (1989): Dir. Chris Walas
Feat. Eric Stoltz, Daphne Zuniga, John Getz; Unnecessary 'son–of–the–fly' sequel to the revisionist horror classic with dir. Walas clearly no Cronenberg and EricStoltz no…
Gunhed (1989): Dir. Masato Harada
Feat. Masahiro Takashima, Brenda Bakke, James Brewster Thompson; Live–action Manga movie is strictly an American B–movie in Japanese dress (though the female lead is even an American cheerleader type).…
Legend of the Demon Womb (1989)
Legend of the Overfiend (Urotsukidoji) (1989): A genuine Manga 'video nasty', this has all the trademark elements of sex, violence and the supernatural to enough of an extreme to ensure an…
Millennium (1989): Dir. Michael Anderson
Feat. Kris Kristofferson, Cheryl Ladd; Perplexing but fascinating sci–fi think piece about an air disaster investigator (Kristofferson) who discovers evidence of time travel while…
Miracle Mile (1989): Dir. Steve DeJarnatt
Feat. Anthony Edwards, Mare Winningham, John Agar…; Anthony Edwards has 60 minutes in which to contemplate a phone call that claims to be the instigation of an imminent nuclear assault. A good crack at…
Patlabor (1989): Dir. Mamoru Oshii
Feat. Shigeru Chiba, William Dufries; A more action–orientated film based on the Japanese anime TV Series. Set in a futuristic Tokyo where armoured Mobile Police enforce the laws,…
Quantum Leap (TV Series) (1989-1993): Dir. Donald P Bellisario
Feat. Scott Bakula, Dean Stockwell; An often thoughtful speculative sci–fi drama in which a scientist finds himself trapped in time, leaping into the body of a different person in…
Red Dwarf (TV Series) - Series 3 (1989): Feat. Chris Barrie, Craig Charles, Danny John-Jules…; More classic episodes with Rimmer, Lister, Cat, Kryten and Holly in the brilliant British sci–fi comedy. Available on 2 VHS tapes or a…
Robot Jox (1989): Dir. Stuart Gordon
Feat. Gary Graham, Anne-Marie Johnson, Paul Koslo; Crash and burn in a bleak future where one–to–one combat is conducted using robot killing–machines the size of buildings. The idea…
Salute of the Jugger (1989): Dir. David Peoples
Feat. Rutger Hauer, Joan Chen; Rutger Hauer leads a band of brutal apocalyptic gladiators in their challenge for The League.
Star Trek V - The Final Frontier (1989): Dir. William Shatner
Feat. William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley…; This time Shatner tries his hand at directing, in what turns out to be one of the less memorable missions of the series. The crew travel through…
Tetsuo: The Iron Man (1989): Dir. Shinya Tsukamoto
Feat. Tomorowo Taguchi, Kei Fujiwara; Mind–blowing cyberpunk tour–de–force that sandwiches enough visuals to fill three movies into its sweat–breaking 67 minutes.…
Venus Wars (1989)
Alien Nation (1988): Dir. Graham Baker
Feat. James Caan, Mandy Patinkin, Terence Stamp; Extra–terrestrials have now settled in suburban California – some are good, some bad, but all are ugly! A futuristic buddy–cop…
Appleseed (Appurushîdo) (1988): Dir. Kazuyoshi Katayama; The original TV version of the post–apocalyptic anime based on Masamune Shirow's comicbook. Following WW3, a world government confines the…
Cherry 2000 (1988): Dir. Steve DeJarnatt
Feat. Melanie Griffith, Ben Johnson, David Andrews; Melanie Griffith stars as a sort of bazuka–wielding female MAD MAX in this tongue–in–cheek blast from the future. An A–grade…
Gandahar (Light Years) (1988): Dir. Rene Laloux; Typically vibrant animation from Laloux has an evil force from a 1000 years in the future threatening an idyllic paradise, where the citizens are in…
Moonwalker (1988): Dir. Colin Chilvers, Jerry Kramer
Feat. Michael Jackson; Feature–length fantasy from the imagination of pop–prince Michael Jackson that combines sci–fi, adventure and plenty of…
Mystery Science Theatre 3000 (TV Series) (1988-1999): Feat. Kevin Murphy, Jim Mallon, Trace Beaulieu…; Legendary cult series about a man and his robot buddy who get shot into space by an evil scientist and forced to watch the most horrific…
Red Dwarf (TV Series) - Series 1 (1988): Dir. Ed Bye
Feat. Chris Barrie, Craig Charles, Danny John-Jules…; Catch up on those missed or classic episodes with Rimmer, Lister, Cat, Kryten and Holly in the brilliant British sci–fi comedy. Available on…
Red Dwarf (TV Series) - Series 2 (1988): Feat. Chris Barrie, Craig Charles, Danny John-Jules…; More classic episodes with Rimmer, Lister, Cat, Kryten and Holly in the brilliant British sci–fi comedy. Available on 2 VHS tapes or a…
Short Circuit 2 (1988): Dir. Kenneth Johnson
Feat. Fisher Stevens, Michael McKean, Cynthia Gibb…; The lovable robot of SHORT CIRCUIT fame is back, with the same endearing naivety – this time he's up against street hoods, a greedy banker and…
Sound (1988): Dir. Biagio Proietti
Feat. Peter Fonda; Peter Fonda stars in this avant garde sci–fi film about a space technician's fascination with a bizarre noise that he believes to be a message…
They Live (1988): Dir. John Carpenter
Feat. Keith David, Meg Foster; Earth is invaded by aliens that offer materialism in exchange for human souls. One can only detect their presence through special glasses. Too often…
Warlock (1988): Dir. Steve Miner
Feat. Richard E. Grant, Julian Sands, Mary Woronov; Richard E. Grant plays a witch–hunter on the tail of an evil 17th Century Warlock (Julian Sands) in this hammy fantasy adventure that enjoyed a…
Batteries Not Included (1987): Dir. Matthew Robbins
Feat. Hume Cronyn, Jessica Tandy; Produced by Steven Speilberg, this version of E.T. has frisbee–sized flying saucers enter the lives of an elderly couple whose NYC building is…
Big Bang, The (1987): Dir. Picha; Animated Cold War/sex satire set in a post–WW3 future (1995!) where the emergent American–Russian mutant alliance are forced to enter the…
Deathstalker II - Duel Of The Titans (Deathstalker 2) (1987): Dir. Jim Wynorski
Feat. John Terlesky, Monique Gabrielle, John Lazar; Sword and sorcery bollocks with weedy John Terlesky stepping into Rick Hill's furry boots and helping future soft porn hall–of–famer…
Devil Man - The Birth (1987)
Doctor Who (TV Series) [Sylvester McCoy] (Dr. Who) (1987-1989): Feat. Sylvester McCoy; After Colin Baker's somewhat disappointing stint as 'The Doctor', Sylvester McCoy took over for three series as the seventh version of the mysterious…
Hidden, The (1987): Dir. Jack Sholder
Feat. Michael Nouri, Kyle MacLachlan; An alien lifeform uses innocent human bodies to rob banks, kill people and listen to heavy metal! An exciting and bizarre sci–fi actioner…
Innerspace (1987): Dir. Joe Dante
Feat. Dennis Quaid, Martin Short, Meg Ryan…; The premise of FANTSTIC VOYAGE is comically reworked with a vastly different plotline involving a miniaturized Dennis Quaid is inadvertently injected…
Max Headroom (TV Series) (1987): Feat. Matt Frewer, Amanda Pays, George Coe; Edison Carter and his computer–generated alter–ego, Max Headroom, pursue justice in a corrupt, corporate future. Four episodes on two…
Robocop (1987): Dir. Paul Verhoeven
Feat. Peter Weller, Nancy Allen, Ronny Cox…; Loaded with sweat–breaking violence and suspense, dir. Paul Verhoeven never surpassed this stunning dystopian satire about a prototype cyborg…
Robocop Trilogy, The (1987-1993): Dir. Paul Verhoeven, Irvin Kershner, Fred Dekker
Feat. Peter Weller, Nancy Allen; Contains all three Robocop movies.
Running Man, The (1987): Dir. Paul Michael Glaser
Feat. Arnold Schwarzenegger, Maria Conchita Alonso, Yaphet Kotto…; Schwarzenegger is in his element in this dystopian fantasy set around a televised game–show. The story has much in common with ROLLERBALL, but…
Star Trek - The Next Generation (TV Series) (1987): Dir. Various
Feat. Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, Michael Dorn…; The STAR TREK series relaunched, with a new crew and modernised ‘Enterprise’, that led to a revival of trekkie–mania.
Superman 4 (Superman IV: The Quest for Peace) (1987): Dir. Sidney J. Furie
Feat. Christopher Reeve, Gene Hackman, Jackie Cooper…; Final entry in the Christopher Reeve series, this time clashing with implacable foe Lex Luther (Hackman) who has produced a superpowered ally,…
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (TV Series) (1987-1996): The cult comicbook turned TV–series about 4 ninja turtles and their endless urban struggles with the forces of evil.
Alf (TV Series) (1986): Feat. Max Wright; Irresistibly cute sitcom about a furry, wise–cracking alien that settles into American suburbia in the 1980s. Season 1 available. Disc 1:…
Aliens (1986): Dir. James Cameron
Feat. Sigourney Weaver, Michael Biehn, Carrie Henn…; Sigourney Weaver returns as Ripley, the only survivor from the first grisly encounter with the slimy she–creature, here joining a team of…
American Way, The (Riders of the Storm) (1986): Dir. Maurice Phillips
Feat. Dennis Hopper, Michael J. Pollard, James Aubrey; Varied political satire following a group of Vietnam vets on a quest to reveal the shady nature of a new electoral candidate by taking over TV…
Critters (1986): Dir. Stephen Herek
Feat. M. Emmet Walsh, Billy Zane; A gang of teeth–knashing alien fur–balls who have escaped from 'space prison' invade smalltown Kansas and terrorize the locals, cutting…
Dead End Drive-In (1986): Dir. Brian Trenchard-Smith; Low–budget Ozploitation thriller set in a post–apocalyptic world where an unwitting young couple get themselves interned with fellow…
Highlander, The (1986): Dir. Russell Mulcahy
Feat. Christopher Lambert, Sean Connery, Clancy Brown…; Visually splendid action–fantasy with Christopher Lambert as a 16th Century immortal, destined to battle his arch enemy through the ages. This…
Invaders from Mars (1986): Dir. Tobe Hooper
Feat. Karen Black, Louise Fletcher, Bud Cort; Madeover by Tobe 'Texas Chainsaw' Hooper, this version of 50s paranoia classic is patchy but above–average. Same basic story with an…
Legend (1986): Dir. Ridley Scott
Feat. Tom Cruise, Tim Curry; Breathtaking imagery highlights this fantasy adventure about evil trying to corrupt innocence. Tom Cruise struts around in tights, but it's Tim Curry…
Project A-Ko (Purojekuto A-ko) (1986): Amusing anime focused on three school girls and their run–ins with giant robots, aliens and butch woman. Will certainly entertain true anime…
Real Ghostbusters, The (TV Series) (1986): Popular eighties cartoon series furthers the adventures of Ghostbusters Peter, Egon, Ray and Winston, although this time they're joined by past…
Short Circuit (1986): Dir. John Badham
Feat. Ally Sheedy, Steve Guttenberg; A family adopts an alien–robot which develops a personality of its own. Good family fodder.
Space Camp (1986): Dir. Harry Winer
Feat. Kate Capshaw, Kelly Preston, Larry B. Scott…; Good natured 80's adolescent romp in which a group of young attendees of a space camp find themselves in space for real when their shuttle is…
Star Trek IV - The Voyage Home (1986): Dir. Leonard Nimoy
Feat. William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley…; Kirk and his crew must travel back in time to the 20th century in order to save the Earth. Far more comedic than previous entries in the series, as…
2019: The New Barbarians (Nuovi barbari, I) (1985): Dir. Enzo G. Castellari
Feat. Fred Williamson, Giancarlo Prete; Third and final episode in the post–apocalyptic BRONX WARRIORS series, escapes the bloody rubble of New York City for a MAD MAX–style…
Amazing Stories (TV Series) (Steven Spielberg's Amazing Stories) (1985): Fantasy/supernatural series created by Steven Spielberg in the spirit of the TWILIGHT ZONE, featuring self–contained stories of the macabre and…
Back to the Future (1985): Dir. Robert Zemeckis
Feat. Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd, Lea Thompson…; A bona fide 80s classic, this original sci–fi comedy/adventure has a perfectly cast Michael J. Fox sent back to the '50s to have his mother…
Brazil (1985): Dir. Terry Gilliam
Feat. Jonathan Pryce, Robert De Niro, Ian Holm…; Daydreaming bureaucrat Jonathan Pryce becomes unwittingly involved with an underground superhero and a mystery woman before falling victim to his own…
Cocoon (1985): Dir. Ron Howard
Feat. Don Ameche, Wilford Brimley, Hume Cronyn…; Delightful fantasy about a group of elderly folk who find the fountain of youth in a swimming pool that has been adopted by alien visitors. A special…
Creator (1985): Dir. Ivan Passer
Feat. Peter O'Toole, Mariel Hemingway, Vincent Spano…; A charmingly absurd sci–fi rom–com from the 1980's starring Peter O'Toole as a madcap scientist who applies his eccentric methodology to…
D.A.R.Y.L. (Daryl) (1985): Dir. Simon Wincer
Feat. Mary Beth Hurt, Michael McKean, Barret Oliver; A whitebread American couple adopt a young boy (Oliver) who has striking talents and abilities. Turns out he is in fact a Pentagon robot or Data…
Dreamchild (1985): Dir. Gavin Millar
Feat. Coral Browne, Ian Holm, Peter Gallagher; The real–life Alice who inspired Lewis Carroll's stories, reflects upon her life and offers some insight into his eccentric and fantasiacal…
Enemy Mine (1985): Dir. Wolfgang Petersen
Feat. Dennis Quaid, Louis Jr. Gossett, Brion James; Warmhearted Sci–Fi yarn with two space pilots on opposing sides in an intergalactic war crash landing on a desolate planet, and having to make…
Flesh and Blood (1985): Dir. Paul Verhoeven
Feat. Rutger Hauer, Jennifer Jason Leigh; Rutger Hauer and Jennifer Jason Leigh are mercenary soldier and captive who fall in love amid rampant flesh and blood–letting in medieval…
Godzilla 1985 (The Return of Godzilla) (1985): Feat. Raymond Burr; The king of monsters reigns supreme in this hokey 'reboot' of the classic Japanese icon. The first in the Heisei Series of Godzilla films, and the…
Ladyhawke (1985): Dir. Richard Donner
Feat. Matthew Broderick, Rutger Hauer, Michelle Pfeiffer; Enjoyable sword–and–sorcery yarn filmed in the Dolomites pits Matthew Broderick as a Medieval tyke who must unlock the evil spell cast on…
Lifeforce (1985): Dir. Tobe Hooper
Feat. Steve Railsback, Peter Firth, Frank Finlay…; London descends into chaos following an invasion of space vampires, in this 80's sci–fi box–office bomb from director Tober Hooper and…
Mad Max III - Beyond Thunderdome (Mad Max 3) (1985): Dir. George Miller
Feat. Mel Gibson, Tina Turner, Bruce Spence; Tina Turner's appearance as Mel Gibson's foe in this third of the series, signalled a vie for a broader audience, but the hyper–kinetic battle…
Quiet Earth, The (1985): Dir. Geoff Murphy
Feat. Bruno Lawrence, Alison Routledge; New Zealand's best attempt yet at the sci–fi genre. Bruno Lawrence wakes one morning to find himself apparently the only person left on earth.…
Ray Bradbury Theater, The (TV Series) (1985-1992): An HBO–originated fantasy anthology series entirely scripted by the eponymous (and prolific) author, based on his short stories and novels. A…
Real Genius (1985): Dir. Martha Coolidge
Feat. Val Kilmer, Gabe Jarret, Michelle Meyrink…; Kooky sci–fi comedy set on a Californian college campus, where a teenage genius develops a high powered chemical laser, but the CIA wants to…
Red Sonja (1985): Dir. Richard Fleischer
Feat. Arnold Schwarzenegger, Brigitte Nielsen, Sandahl Bergman…; Unremarkable except for its silliness, this excursion into CONAN territory pits uber–bimbo Nielsen against various diehard villains.…
Starfleet (TV Series) (X Bomber) (1985): Dir. Go Nagai; Heavily influenced by Gerry Anderson's supermarionation series, this sci–fi Japanese production from manga creater Go Nagai kicks off when an…
Twilight Zone, The (TV Series) (1985): Dir. Wes Craven, Tommy Lee Wallace, Robert Downey Snr.
Feat. Bruce Willis, Eric Bogosian, Amy Irving…; A solid if variable 1980's reprise of Rod Serling's iconic series of off–beat fantasy stories. Also available; "Lost Classics" (1994),…
1984 (1984): Dir. Michael Radford
Feat. John Hurt, Richard Burton; Adaptation of George Orwell's novel remains faithful to his book and is thus a despairing experience. John Hurt and Richard Burton represent the…
2010: The Year We Make Contact (1984): Dir. Peter Hyams
Feat. Roy Scheider, Helen Mirren; Belated sequel jettisons the metaphysics of 2001 for more traditional sci–fi explanations, bolstered by excellent special f/x. Roy Scheider…
Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai - Across the Eighth Dimension (1984): Dir. W.D. Richter
Feat. Peter Weller, John Lithgow, Ellen Barkin…; This offbeat genre film has been described as a silly movie for smart people. A bored neurosurgeon (Buck) decides to become a rock star and defender…
Alphabet City (1984): Dir. Amos Poe
Feat. Vincent Spano; Crime drama set entirely over one evening and following a NYC drug dealer who decides to get out of the business and escape the the wrath of the mob.
Children Of The Dog Star (TV Mini-series) (1984): Feat. Sarah Dunn, Jason Wallace, Hamish Bartle…; Beloved New Zealand sci–fi series following 12–year–old Gretchen (Dunn) who discovers a link to an extra–extraterrestrial…
Chocky (TV Series) (1984): Dir. Vic Hughes, Christopher Hodson
Feat. Carol Drinkwater; One of the best sci–fi TV serials of the 1980s is set around a schoolboy who begins to develop supernormal talents. It seems an alien force has…
Conan the Destroyer (1984): Dir. Richard Fleischer
Feat. Arnold Schwarzenegger, Grace Jones; Semi–nude Arnie grunts through his second Conan adventure.
Doctor Who (TV Series) [Colin Baker] (Dr. Who) (1984-1986): Feat. Colin Baker; The sixth 'Doctor Who' was played by Colin Baker as flamboyant and over–dressed, as the BBC tried to quell dropping audience figures by turning…
Dream One (Nemo) (1984): Dir. Arnaud Sélignac
Feat. Jason Connery, Harvey Keitel, Mathilda May; Very strange, tonally confused but often fascinating fantasia, a very loose adaptation of Winsor McKay's 1920s comic strip Little Nemo – itself…
Dreamscape (1984): Dir. Joseph Ruben
Feat. Dennis Quaid, Max von Sydow, Christopher Plummer; Psychic Dennis Quaid treks through the dreams and nightmares of others, ultimately confronting the nihilistic visions of the President. Works well…
Dune (1984): Dir. David Lynch
Feat. Kyle MacLachlan, Jose Ferrer, Brad Dourif…; Ambitious but muddled adaptation of Frank Herbert's cult novel recouped less than half its $25 million cost. Still of interest to spotters of…
Dune (Extended Version) (1984): Dir. David Lynch
Feat. Brad Dourif, Kyle MacLachlan, Virginia Madsen; Adds an extra 50 trimmed–minutes to this gargantuan, flawed adaptation of Frank Herbert’s novel. Quality varies between the new footage…
Future Cop (Trancers) (1984): Dir. Charles Band
Feat. Tim Thomerson, Helen Hunt; The most imaginative film from prolific Z–movie producer Charles Band follows cynical future cop Jack Deth on his mission to terminate evil…
Ghostbusters (1984): Dir. Ivan Reitman
Feat. Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Sigourney Weaver…; Blockbuster supernatural comedy follows the lives of three flaky paranormal investigators who find themselves in countless gooey situations. The…
Ice Pirates, The (1984): Dir. Stewart Raffill
Feat. Robert Urich, Mary Crosby, Michael D. Roberts…; Goofy sci–fi comedy set in a distant future where water is scarce on the planet earth. After a band of space pirates get caught raiding ice,…
Iceman (1984): Dir. Fred Schepisi
Feat. Timothy Hutton, Lindsay Crouse, Josef Sommer…; Arctic explorers discover the body of a prehistoric man who is still alive in this enjoyable piece of sci–fi hokum, with John Lone giving a…
Last Starfighter, The (1984): Dir. Nick Castle
Feat. Lance Guest, Dan O'Herlihy, Catherine Mary Stewart; Diverting wish–fulfilment has teenager Lance Guest inducted by aliens into a galaxy–saving space–force because of his ace skills at…
Lensman (1984)
Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind (Kaze no tani no Naushika; Warriors of the Wind) (1984): Dir. Hayao Miyazaki; In a strange post–apocalyptic world, a young girl has to save her people from the huge insects that threaten them. An extraordinary early…
Night of the Comet (1984): Dir. Thom Eberhardt
Feat. Catherine Mary Stewart, Robert Beltran, Kelli Maroney; Terrific B–movie where a comet hits earth and two surviving valley girls must fight the resulting cannibal zombie apocalypse. Trashy in all the…
Philadelphia Experiment, The (1984): Dir. Stewart Raffill
Feat. Michael Pare, Nancy Allen, Eric Christmas…; Michael Pare plays a WW2 naval officer who takes a quantum leap into 1984.
Runaway (1984): Dir. Michael Crichton
Feat. Tom Selleck, Cynthia Rhodes, Gene Simmons…; Micheal Crichton writes and directs this whimsical, entertaining cops and robots action–adventure starring Tom Selleck as a police officer who…
Star Trek III - The Search for Spock (1984): Dir. Leonard Nimoy
Feat. William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley…; Leonard Nimoy himself directed this continuation of 'The Wrath of Khan', in which the crew set out to rescue Spock from Kurge (Christopher Lloyd).…
Star Wars Ewok Adventures (Caravan of Courage / The Battle for Endor) (1984-1985): Feat. Wilford Brimley, Warwick Davis, Aubree Miller…; George Lucas–created fantasies especially for younger STAR WARS admirers, following further adventures of the creatures so fondly remembered in…
Starman (1984): Dir. John Carpenter
Feat. Jeff Bridges, Karen Allen, Charles Martin Smith…; Jeff Bridges plays an alien trying to recover his spaceship on Earth with the help of young widow Karen Allen. Entertaining fantasy–drama.
Supergirl (1984): Dir. Jeannot Szwarc
Feat. Helen Slater, Faye Dunaway, Peter O'Toole…; Dilute but amiable spinoff has Superman's kid cousin, Supergirl (Slater), sent to Earth to foil the plans of an evil sorceress (Dunaway) who has laid…
Terminator, The (1984): Dir. James Cameron
Feat. Arnold Schwarzenegger, Michael Biehn, Linda Hamilton; Breakthrough film for Schwarzenegger and its director, it's a high–powered action fantasy that set a precedent for the genre. And 'I'll be…
Threads (1984): Dir. Mick Jackson
Feat. Karen Meagher, Reece Dinsdale; A disturbing vision of a nuclear attack on Sheffield, which comes across as an English THE DAY AFTER, with more focus on the grim details of such a…
Transformers (TV Series) (1984): One of the defining children's TV series of the 1980s, featuring autobotic heroes who transform into cars, planes etc. to defend Earth against…
Brainstorm (1983): Dir. Douglas Trumball
Feat. Christopher Walken, Natalie Wood, Louise Fletcher…; A ‘Hard Sci–fi’ fable about the development of a sensory experience device – ‘virtual reality’ in today’s…
Doctor Who: The Five Doctors (1983): Feat. Peter Davison, Patrick Troughton, Jon Pertwee…; 25th Anniversary Edition of this Sci–Fi classic featuring five embodiments of the doctor. Most of the doctors find themselves transported to…
Escape From the Bronx (1990: Bronx Warriors II) (1983): Dir. Enzo G. Castellari
Feat. Henry Silva, Giancarlo Prete; Dystopian sequel to the cult 80s dud BRONX WARRIORS, with New York City a wasteland ruled over by vicious motorcycle gangs and corporate villains.…
He-Man and the Masters of the Universe (1983-1985): In its time this animated TV series was a ubiquitous pop phenomena, being simultaneously unleashed on the world with a line of model toys and…
Krull (1983): Dir. Peter Yates
Feat. Ken Marshall, Francesca Annis; Well–remembered though mostly incoherent grafting of fantasy and sci–fi elements, in which laser–beams jostle with monsters, Celtic…
Le Dernier Combat (The Last Battle) (1983): Dir. Luc Besson
Feat. Pierre Jolivet, Jean Bouise, Jean Reno; The director's impressive debut (at the age of 24) is a post–apocalyptic fable, strikingly filmed in black and white with almost no…
Rock and Rule (1983): Dir. Clive A. Smith; Obscure, though excellent cult animation made by Canada's 'Nelvana' studio, set in a post–apocalyptic world of mutant rodents. The story…
Star Wars: Episode VI - The Return of the Jedi (1983): Dir. Richard Marquand
Feat. Mark Hamill, Carrie Fisher, Harrison Ford…; Final installment in George Lucas' space–trilogy sees the conclusion of the galactic war between the Empire and the 'Rebel forces'. Mark…
Superman 3 (Superman III) (1983): Dir. Richard Lester
Feat. Christopher Reeve, Richard Pryor, Jackie Cooper…; Further adventures of the 'man of steel' (Reeve) this time the victim of a personality reversal, which complicates his fight against a meglomaniac…
Terrahawks (TV Series) (1983): Dir. Gerry Anderson, Tony Bell; A NASA mission to Mars encounters a hostile alien empire (from the planet Guk) in Gerry Anderson’s final stab at TV sci–fi…
Twilight Zone - The Movie (1983): Dir. John Landis, Steven Spielberg, Joe Dante
Feat. John Lithgow, Dan Aykroyd, Albert Brooks…; Big–screen homage to the classic 60s TV–series, features four segments of varying (though often effective) creepiness, helmed by…
V (TV Series) (1983): Dir. Kenneth Johnson
Feat. Robert Englund, Michael Ironside; Compelling sci–fi saga detailing the mass invasion of alien spacecraft whose inhabitants dubiously claim to have come in peace.
1990: The Bronx Warriors (1982): Dir. Enzo G. Castellari
Feat. Vic Morrow, Fred Williamson, Christopher Connelly; Renowned cheese–fest in which youth gangs of the post–Apocalypse Bronx, battle each other and an evil corporate arms manufacturer. Prime…
Android (1982): Dir. Aaron Lipstadt
Feat. Klaus Kinski, Brie Howard, Norbert Weisser; Quirky tale of an almost–human robot who learns he is about to be made obsolete. Entertaining script and tight direction redeems the small…
Battletruck (Warlords of the 21st Century) (1982): Dir. Harley Cokeliss
Feat. Michael Beck, Annie McEnroe, James Wainwright…; In the 21st Century oil wars have left civilisation verging on collapse. Lawlessness and anarchy are the order of this day in this…
Blade Runner (1982): Dir. Ridley Scott
Feat. Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer, Daryl Hannah…; This sci–fi neo–noir classic is an exercise in style over substance, but what style! A work of towering imagination and extraordinary…
Conan the Barbarian (1982): Dir. John Milius
Feat. Arnold Schwarzenegger; Slave–turned–swordsman Arnold Schwarzenegger's 20 year search for his parent's killers is a violent, comic–pulp romp through a…
Doctor Who (TV Series) [Peter Davison] (Dr. Who) (1982-1984): Feat. Peter Davison; Succeeding the ever–popular Tom Baker, Peter Davison held his own as the fifth incarnation of "Doctor Who' by bringing a boyish charm to the…
Fire and Ice (1982): Dir. Ralph Bakshi; One of dir. Bashki’s (FRITZ THE CAT) lesser efforts, this sword–and–sorcery animated fantasy is notable for the seminal visuals by…
Les Maitres du Temps (Time Masters) (1982): Dir. Rene Laloux; Another vivid, otherworldly animation from French dir. Laloux (FANTASTIC PLANET), with design from Jean Giraud (aka Mobius). Bygone sci–fi…
Q: the Winged Serpent (1982): Dir. Larry Cohen
Feat. Michael Moriarty, Candy Clark, David Carradine; A tongue–in–cheek monster movie about a prehistoric giant bird nesting at the top of New York's Chrysler building. Surprisingly well…
Space Adventure Cobra (1982): Dir. Osamu Dezaki; Space opera at its soapiest – a rouge intergalactic criminal thwarts alien pirates, saves the universe, and gets the ladies in this retro anime…
Star Trek II - The Wrath of Khan (1982): Dir. Nicholas Meyer
Feat. William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley…; The Enterprise crew are back to do battle with Kirk's old enemy Khan, as he takes control of a Federation Starship. Nice touches of humour and…
Sword and the Sorcerer, The (1982): Dir. Albert Pyun
Feat. Kathleen Beller, Simon MacCorkindale, George Maharis…; Not bad swords–and–sandals fantasy, set in a medieval kingdom ruled by an evil sorcerer. To the rescue comes a mercenary who wields a…
Thing, The (1982): Dir. John Carpenter
Feat. Kurt Russell, Wilford Brimley, Richard Dysart…; Kurt Russell headlines this remake of the 1951 film about an Antarctic outpost terrorized by an alien organism. Dir. John Carpenter cranks up the…
Tripods, The (TV Series) (1982): Dir. Graham Theakston
Feat. John Shackley, Jim Baker II, Peter Dolphin; One of the BBC's most expensive serials was this imaginative, if uneven, handling of John Christopher's Tripods trilogy. In 2089, the Earth is ruled…
Tron (1982): Dir. Steve Lisberger
Feat. Jeff Bridges, Bruce Boxleitner, David Warner…; Jeff Bridges becomes trapped in an alternative computer universe where he is forced to combat evil pac–men and corporate corruption. Made at…
Under the Mountain (TV Series) (1982): Feat. Kirsty Wilkinson, Lance Warren, Roy Leywood; Disquieting, dark–hued tele adaptation of Maurice Gee's beloved sci–fi fantasy, about a pair of twins with latent psychic powers,…
Voyagers! (TV Series) (1982-1983): Feat. Jon-Erik Hexum, Meeno Peluce; Endearing sci–fi show from the 1980's featuring a time–traveller called Phineas Bogg(!) and a young accomplice who use a hand–held…
Xtro (1982): Dir. Harry Bromley Davenport
Feat. Maryam d'Abo, Bernice Stegers, Philip Sayer; Sci–fi horror about a man who is abducted by aliens, then shows up three years later looking for his son. Pretty good fun, with some…
Blake's 7 (TV Series) - Series 4 (1981): Feat. Gareth Thomas, Michael Keating; More adventures and intrigues for the crew of the 'Liberator', in this classic British TV Series. Series Four: 13 episodes over five…
Clash of the Titans (1981): Dir. Desmond Davis
Feat. Laurence Olivier, Claire Bloom, Ursula Andress; Brave stab at visualising Greek mythology, taking the Perseus legend as its basis, this turned out to be the swansong for Ray Harryhausen and his…
Day of the Triffids (TV Mini-Series) (1981): Dir. Ken Hannam
Feat. John Duttine, Emma Relph, Maurice Colbourne; More convincing and clinical than previous adaptations of John Wyndham's novel, this BBC series depicts the blinding of Earth's human population and…
Escape from New York (1981): Dir. John Carpenter
Feat. Kurt Russell, Lee Van Cleef, Ernest Borgnine…; 1997 New York is a huge maximum–security prison where the President's plane just happens to crash! Futuristic actioner notable for its sardonic…
Excalibur (1981): Dir. John Boorman
Feat. Nigel Terry, Nicol Williamson, Nicholas Clay…; The King Arthur legend is given a fanciful, dynamic spin by a director at his creative peak in an epic fantasy tale of sorcery and magic.
Greatest American Hero, The (TV Series) (1981): Feat. William Katt, Robert Culp, Connie Sellecca…; A reluctant superhero if ever there was one, William Katt is engaging in this spoof sitcom as the toussle–haired school–teacher who is…
Heavy Metal (1981): Dir. Gerald Potterton; Based on stories from the 70s sci–fi/fantasy mag, this replicates the stylish artwork, sleazy thrills and quirky storylines, with the added…
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (TV Series) (1981): Dir. Alan J.W. Bell
Feat. Peter Jones, Simon Jones, David Dixon…; The excellent BBC TV adaptation of Douglas Adams' extraordinary books provides a wealth of brain–candy for cybernerds, techno–buffs and…
Inseminoid (Horror Planet) (1981): Dir. Norman J. Warren
Feat. Judy Geeson; An interplanetry archaelogical team unleash a female vampire (Geeson) into their spaceship, in this super–trashy ALIEN knockoff. Unconvincing…
Looker (1981): Dir. Michael Crichton
Feat. Albert Finney, James Coburn, Susan Dey…; Sci–fi thriller written and directed by Michael Crichton that comments upon and satirizes media, advertising, TV's effects on the populace, and…
Mad Max II - The Road Warrior (Mad Max 2) (1981): Dir. George Miller
Feat. Mel Gibson, Bruce Spence; Studio–backed sequel retains the integrity of the first while sprucing up the artillery, pyrotechnics and going for a more futuristic style.…
Man Who Saw Tomorrow (1981): Dir. Robert Guenette
Feat. Orson Welles; Orson Welles narrates and appears in this dramatisation of the prophecies of Nostradamus, many of which have proved to be alarmingly accurate.
Memoirs of a Survivor (1981): Dir. David Gladwell
Feat. Julie Christie; Julie Christie portrays the diarist of Doris Lessing's cult novel, aimlessly existing in a crippled, post–apocalyptic future Britain. Genuinely…
Outland (1981): Dir. Peter Hyams
Feat. Sean Connery, Peter Boyle, Frances Sternhagen…; Enjoyable outer–space remake of High Noon with Sean Connery as an ass–kicking 21st Century marshall determined to rid the planet of…
Quest for Fire (1981): Dir. Jean-Jacques Annaud
Feat. Everett McGill, Ron Perlman; Sci–fi set 80,000 years ago, it follows a tribe's attempt to replenish fire when it is stolen from them. Ambitious production makes the most of…
Time After Time (1981): Dir. Nicholas Meyer
Feat. Malcolm McDowell, Mary Steenburgen; Intriguing time–travel fantasy sees a young H G Wells (Malcolm McDowell), tracking Jack the Ripper from 1890s England to 1970s San Fransisco…
Voltron: Defender of the Universe (1981): A quintessential retro import by way of Japan that found its way onto afternoon TV screens in the eighties, this gleefully pre–empted POWER…
Altered States (1980): Dir. Ken Russell
Feat. William Hurt, Blair Brown; William Hurt plays a scientist with a penchant for mind exploration in his starring debut. Russell's overly talky but fascinating film has found a…
Battle Beyond the Stars (1980): Dir. Jimmy T. Murakami
Feat. John Saxon, Richard Thomas; A campy space–set reworking of THE SEVEN SAMURAI/MAGNIFICENT SEVEN, produced by Roger Corman and scripted by John Sayles. The effects shine…
Blake's 7 (TV Series) - Series 3 (1980): Feat. Gareth Thomas, Michael Keating; More adventures and intrigues for the crew of the 'Liberator', in this classic British TV Series. Series Three: 13 episodes over five…
Castle of Cagliostro (1980): Dir. Hayao Miyazaki; Ground–breaking animated feature from the director of PRINCESS MONONOKE holds its own in today's high–tech animation environment. Based…
Chain Reaction, The (1980): Dir. Ian Barry; A holidaying couple are unwittingly exposed to contamination in this watchable nuclear thriller. Plausibility soons gives way to an enjoyable…
Deathwatch (1980): Dir. Bertrand Tavernier
Feat. Harvey Keitel, Harry Dean Stanton; Cerebral drama set in the future about a media group who attempt to film the deaths of the terminally ill for public consumption.
Final Countdown, The (1980): Dir. Don Taylor
Feat. Martin Sheen, Kirk Douglas, Katherine Ross…; The nuclear–era aircraft carrier USS Nimitz, skippered by Martin Sheen, steams into a time–warp and pops up in the Pacific Ocean, just…
Flash Gordon (1980): Dir. Michael Hodges
Feat. Sam J. Jones, Melody Anderson, Topol…; Max Von Sydow's Ming the Merciless only has one thing in his way of universal domination – that blasted quarterback from the New York Jets!…
Hangar 18 (1980): Dir. James L. Conway
Feat. Robert Vaughn, Darren McGavin, Gary Collins…; Hokey Sci–Fi riffs on the Roswell incident with two astronauts determined to prove the U.S government is in possession of a flying saucer.
Nightmare City (1980): Dir. Umberto Lenzi
Feat. Hugo Stiglitz, Laura Trotter, Maria Rosaria Omaggio…; Survival horror from director Umberto Lenzi (CANNIBAL FEROX) set in a city overrun by zombies in the aftermath of a nuclear accident. Follows the…
Saturn 3 (1980): Dir. Stanley Donen
Feat. Farrah Fawcett, Kirk Douglas, Harvey Keitel; Space–base scientists Farrah Fawcett and Kirk Douglas become menaced by baddie Harvey Keitel and his sex–crazed robot. Martin Amis's…
Somewhere in Time (1980): Dir. Jeannot Szwarc
Feat. Christopher Reeve, Jane Seymour, Christopher Plummer…; Fantastical love story stars Reeve as a successful playwright who becomes obsessed with a woman he believes he is destined to be with, even if it…
Space Firebird 2772 (1980): Dir. Taku Sugiyama; Futuristic Sci Fi anime conceived by the creator of ASTRO BOY sees a young cadet sent on a search to retrieve a mystical 'firebird', which may have…
Star Fleet (TV Series) (Star Fleet — X Bomber) (1980): Influenced by Star Wars and inspired by Thunderbirds, this 24 part Japanese puppet space opera has the bonus feature of giant (rubber suit) robots.…
Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980): Dir. Irvin Kershner
Feat. Mark Hamill, Carrie Fisher, Harrison Ford…; The remaining rebel forces play a game of cat and mouse with the emperors immense galactic armada. Tight action sequences, deft plot twists and a…
Superman 2 (Superman II) (1980): Dir. Richard Lester
Feat. Christopher Reeve, Margot Kidder, Gene Hackman; Laudable continuation of the super–hero franchise, that adds more action and comic sparks to the familiar characters –The Man of Steel…
Uforia (1980): Dir. John Binder
Feat. Harry Dean Stanton, Fred Ward; Quirky comedy about a kooky check–out operator who believes that aliens are about to dock on their doorstep. Harry Dean Stanton and Fred Ward…
Alien (1979): Dir. Ridley Scott
Feat. Tom Skerritt, Sigourney Weaver, John Hurt…; One of the best films of modern cinema, this classic combines nail–shredding suspense with H.R. Giger's awesome production design. This film…
Alien Anthology Box Set (Alien, Aliens, Alien 3, Alien Resurrection) (1979-1999): Feat. Sigourney Weaver; All four of the seminal ALIEN horrors – in their special–edition versions – in one box–set.
Battlestar Galactica (Original TV Series) (1979): Feat. Dirk Benedict, Lorne Greene, Jane Seymour…; The followup television series to the 1978 feature–film concerning the future plight of the human race when persecuted by the powerful Cylon…
Black Hole, The (1979): Dir. Gary Nelson
Feat. Maximilian Schell, Anthony Perkins, Robert Forster…; Maniacal scientist Maximilian Schell plans to dive into a vast ‘black hole’ in space – this is the compelling idea of one of…
Blake's 7 (TV Series) - Series 2 (1979): Feat. Gareth Thomas, Michael Keating; More adventures and intrigues for the crew of the 'Liberator', in this classic British TV Series. Series Two: 13 episodes over five…
Buck Rogers in the 25th Century (1979): Dir. Daniel Haller
Feat. Gil Gerrard, Henry Silva; Feature pilot from the TV–Series about the adventures of a 20th century astronaut who is time–warped into the 25th. Amiable revival of…
Buck Rogers in the 25th Century (TV Series) (1979-1981): Feat. Gil Gerard, Erin Gray, Tim O'Connor; Kitsch TV serial adapted from the comic strip with Gil Gerard as the all–American 20th Century astronaut who is cryogenically re–animated…
Captain America (1979): Dir. Rod Holcomb
Feat. Len Birman, Reb Brown; A cheesy TV–movie incarnation of the star–spangled crime fighter is an origin tale about a motor–cross crash–survivor who is…
Flash Gordon: The Animated Series (1979): Wonderfully retro Saturday morning animated series sees Flash Gordon crashland on Planet Mongo, ruled by the evil dictator Ming the Merciless, and…
Mad Max (1979): Dir. George Miller
Feat. Mel Gibson, Joanne Samuel, Steve Bisley…; Mel Gibson made his international splash in an apocalyptic, futuristic actioner charged with a fierce energy that only a paltry budget can bring.…
Mad Max Anthology, the (1979-2015): Dir. George Miller; All four MAD MAX films in one box set.
Martian Chronicles, The (TV Mini-series) (1979): Dir. Michael Anderson
Feat. Rock Hudson, Bernie Casey, Gayle Hunnicutt…; Sluggish adaptation of the famed Ray Bradbury short stories concerning mankind's first expedition and attempted conquest of Mars. Adapted by Richard…
Meteor (1979): Dir. Ronald Neame
Feat. Sean Connery, Natalie Wood, Karl Malden…; Clumsy disaster movie with the USA and the USSR forming an unlikely alliance during the Cold War to prevent a giant asteroid from destroying the…
Quintet (1979): Dir. Robert Altman
Feat. Paul Newman, Fernando Rey, Bibi Andersson; Curious, if not entirely realized sci–fi excursion for Robert Altman, following 3 WOMEN’s dream existentialism with a post–apocalyptic…
Sapphire and Steel (TV Series) (1979- 1982): Dir. Shaun O'Riordan
Feat. Joanna Lumley, David McCallum; A pre–AB FAB Joanna Lumley and a post–INVISIBLE MAN David McCallum cavort around in eerie abodes repairing 'tears in time'. High concept,…
Shape of Things to Come, The (1979): Dir. George McCowan
Feat. Jack Palance, Carol Lynley, Barry Morse…; Loosely adapted from the H.G. Wells novel, this follows a mankind's post–nuclear colonisation of the Moon and series of crises that bedevil the…
Stalker (1979): Dir. Andrei Tarkovsky
Feat. Aleksandr Kajdanovsky, Alisa Frejndlikh, Anatoli Solonitsyn; A stark, apocalyptic vision into a world where the Stalker guides those who wish to enter the forbidden Zone. Intimate, dilatory work conjures images…
Star Trek - The Motion Picture (1979): Dir. Robert Wise
Feat. William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley…; Starring the cast from the 60's TV phenomenon, this special effects fest features the crew fighting a lethal force field spinning toward Earth.…
Star Trek I-X Boxset (1979-2002): 12–disc boxset of all ten 'original' and 'Next Generation' Star Trek feature films.
Two Worlds of Jennie Logan, The (1979): Dir. Frank De Felitta
Feat. Lindsay Wagner, Marc Singer, Linda Gray…; An enchanting made–for–television drama starring Lindsay Wagner as Jennie Logan, a woman finds an antique dress in her attic that…
Visitor, The (Stridulum) (1979): Dir. Giulio Paradisi
Feat. Joanne Nail, Lance Henriksen, Paige Conner…; A young girl cursed with an inhuman, malevolent power is central to a cosmic battle between forces of good and evil in this ambitious and at times…
Battle of the Planets (TV Series) (1978): Dir. David E Hanson; Ground–breaking serial, a dubbed and re–edited Japanese sci–fi cartoon, that became one of the most popular TV–shows of the…
Battlestar Galactica (1978): Dir. Richard A. Colla
Feat. Lorne Greene, Ray Milland, Dirk Benedict; The TV origins of this STAR WARS retread are plainly evident, with the cast all looking rather self–conscious in their 70s lurex clobber.
Blake's 7 (TV Series) - Series 1 (1978): Feat. Michael Keating, Gareth Thomas; An acknowledged classic of British television sci–fi, this long–running series followed the fortunes of disparate group of characters…
Capricorn One (1978): Dir. Peter Hyams
Feat. Elliott Gould, James Brolin, Brenda Vaccaro…; Intriguing, thought–provoking thriller, with astronauts Sam Waterston and OJ Simpson helping NASA to fake a manned landing on Mars, unknowing…
Coma (1978): Dir. Michael Crichton
Feat. Genevieve Bujold, Michael Douglas, Elizabeth Ashley…; Numerous patients fall into a permanent coma, arousing the suspicions of maverick doctor Genevieve Bujold. Excellent thriller unfolds its queasy…
Fury, The (1978): Dir. Brian De Palma
Feat. Kirk Douglas, John Cassavetes; Despite a barmy sci–fi plot concerning telekinetic teenagers being used for military experiments, this Brian de Palma–directed thriller…
Incredible Melting Man, The (1978): Dir. William Sachs
Feat. Alex Rebar, Burr DeBenning, Myron Healey; Radiation poisoning causes an astronaut to literally fall to pieces during a murderous rampage. Slimy effects by Rick Baker distinguish this pure…
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978): Dir. Philip Kaufman
Feat. Donald Sutherland, Brooke Adams, Leonard Nimoy…; Accomplished and intelligent remake has a weird clinical atmosphere and provides a few more creepy twists to the pod invasion theme.
Kiss Meets the Phantom of the Park (Kiss In Attack Of The Phantom!) (1978): Dir. Gordon Hessler
Feat. Paul Stanley, Gene Simmons, Ace Frehley…; Filmed at the height of KISS's popularity, this glorious piece of 70's rock 'n' roll camp pits the cosmic, cosmeticized crusaders against a…
Lupin the Third: Secret of Mamo (1978): Dir. Soji Yoshikawa; The first in a popular series of films featuring "Lupin III" (based on the graphic novels by Monkey Punch), this nostalgically–styled manga…
Quatermass (TV Mini Series) (1978): Dir. Piers Haggard
Feat. John Mills, Simon MacCorkindale; Sir John Mills gives a great late performances as the legendary 1950s hero Professor Quatermass in this TV mini–series conclusion to Nigel…
Star Wars Holiday Special, The (1978): Dir. Steve Binder
Feat. Mark Hamill, Carrie Fisher, Harrison Ford…; A TV christmas special set in the Star Wars universe that was the first Star Wars spin–off film, set between the events of the original film…
Starcrash (1978): Dir. Luigi Cozzi
Feat. Marjoe Gortner, Caroline Munro, David Hasselhoff…; Galactic adventure following a pair of smugglers who take on the evil Count Zartharn who is developing a mysterious and deadly weapon. Very much a…
Superman (1978): Dir. Richard Donner
Feat. Christopher Reeve, Margot Kidder, Gene Hackman; Christopher Reeve is the Man of Steel in the first and best adventure – from his humble inception through to…
Warlords of Atlantis (1978): Dir. Kevin Connor
Feat. Doug McClure, Peter Gilmore, Shane Rimmer; Enjoyably hokey British sci–fi adventure film about a perilous trip to the lost world of Atlantis where Doug McClure and his expedition…
Alternative 3 (1977): Dir. Christopher Miles
Feat. Tim Brinton; Public fear (or gullibility) was exposed with this hoax science report proposing three drastic alternatives to then–emerging hysteria around…
Children of the Stones (TV Mini-Series) (1977): Dir. Peter Graham Scott
Feat. Gareth Thomas, Iain Cuthbertson; A spooky classic of British television, in which a scientist and his son move to the village of Milbury, only to be sucked into a quasi–pagan…
Close Encounters of the Third Kind - Special Edition (1977): Dir. Steven Spielberg
Feat. Richard Dreyfuss, Francois Truffaut; Richard Dreyfuss embodies a working class lineman who is chosen by a higher power for some great purpose. With a head full of ambiguous images and…
Damnation Alley (1977): Dir. Jack Smight
Feat. Jan-Michael Vincent, George Peppard, Dominique Sanda…; Post–apocalyptic thriller that follows a group of WWIII survivors at a military installation who drive across the desolate wasteland to find…
Demon Seed, The (1977): Dir. Donald Cammell
Feat. Julie Christie; The thought of a woman (Julie Christie) being literally impregnated by a machine may be a dodgy premise for a movie, but it all works surprisingly…
Fantastic Journey, The (TV Series) (1977): Feat. Jared Martin, Ike Eisenmann, Carl Franklin…; A short–lived but influential 70's sci–fi show about a team of protagonists who jump from one time zone to the next, encountering bizarre…
Hardware Wars (1977): Dir. Ernie Fosselius; This rather dated, but well–remembered sci–fi spoof paved the way for countless Star Wars parodies and tributes.
Man From Atlantis (TV Series) (1977-1978): Feat. Patrick Duffy, Alan Fudge, Belinda Montgomery; In the wake of the success of shows like THE SIX MILLION DOLLAR MAN, Patrick Duffy ("Bobby" from DALLAS) steps up to play an earnest,…
Star Wars Trilogy, The (Star Wars, Empire Strikes Back, Return of the Jedi) (1977-1983): Dir. George Lucas; George Lucas' original trilogy of sci–fi blockbusters, presented in their extended, remastered versions.
Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977): Dir. George Lucas
Feat. Mark Hamill, Carrie Fisher, Harrison Ford…; George Lucas' epic trilogy of space adventure begins "long ago and far far away", with the life of Luke Skywalker being disturbed by the galactic war…
Twilight's Last Gleaming (1977): Dir. Robert Aldrich
Feat. Burt Lancaster, Richard Widmark, Charles Durning…; A powerful political thriller following an American Air Force pilot (Burt Lancaster) who goes renegade, escaping from military prison and taking…
Wizards (1977): Dir. Ralph Bakshi; A counter–culture animated fantasy, set in a supernatural future populated by elves, fairies and derelict technology. Centred around two…
Bionic Woman, The (TV Series) (1976-1978): Feat. Lindsay Wagner, Richard Anderson, Lee Majors; The respectable female spinoff to THE SIX MILLION DOLLAR MAN, has Wagner play the tennis pro fiance of 'Steve Austin' who after a skydiving accident…
Embryo (1976): Dir. Ralph Nelson
Feat. Rock Hudson, Barbara Carrera, Diane Ladd…; Stillborn bio–horror in which Rock Hudson's scientist discovers how to mature a fetus into a human female adult in just a few days, but the…
Futureworld (1976): Dir. Richard T. Heffron
Feat. Peter Fonda, Yul Brynner; WESTWORLD sequel is set in a 1985 'fool–proof' theme–park that spawns a new generation of robot doubles threatening to take over the…
Logan's Run (1976): Dir. Michael Anderson
Feat. Michael York, Jenny Agutter; Enjoyable escapism set in an idyllic 23rd Century society where no–one is allowed to live beyond 30! Lurex clad twenty–somethings Michael…
Logan's Run (TV Series) (1976): Feat. Gregory Harrison, Heather Menzies, Donald Moffat…; Television spin–off from the 1976 film of the same name expands on the premise of twenty–somethings Logan 5 and Jessica 6 searching for…
Man Who Fell to Earth, The (1976): Dir. Nicolas Roeg
Feat. David Bowie, Rip Torn, Candy Clark…; David Bowie plays a humanoid trapped on Earth during a quest for water. Genuinely original and imaginative article is stamped with Nic Roeg's…
Questor Tapes, The (1976): Feat. Robert Foxworth, Mike Farrell, John Vernon…; Though never developed into the TV series it was designed to precede, this curious Gene Roddenberry telemovie has all the makings of a sci–fi…
Boy and His Dog, A (1975): Dir. L.Q. Jones
Feat. Don Johnson; Intriguingly subversive film about a youth and his telepathic canine friend who scour the post–holocaust landscape in search of civilisation.…
Crazies, The (1975): Dir. George Romero
Feat. Lane Carroll, Will MacMillan, Harold Wayne Jones; Underrated low–budgeter about germ warfare, a personal favourite of Romero's. Fast–paced editing creates some real excitement.
Doctor Who (TV Series) [Tom Baker] (Dr. Who) (1975-1981): Feat. Tom Baker; Probably the most popular 'Doctor' of the BBC sci–fi series, Tom Baker cut a memorable figure as the woolly–scarfed and energetic…
Invisible Man, The (TV Series) (1975): Feat. David McCallum; An American–produced version of H.G Wells’ classic sci–fi tale which combines light–hearted humour and gags around the gift of…
Rollerball (1975): Dir. Norman Jewison
Feat. James Caan, John Houseman, Maud Adams…; The title refers to a violent sport in a corrupt, totalitarian future society where all forms of violence have been outlawed. Influenced by A…
Stepford Wives, The (1975): Dir. Bryan Forbes
Feat. Katharine Ross, Paula Prentiss, Peter Masterson…; Beautifully understated, bizarre satire on suburbia and the feminist movement in which the inhabitants of a small town seem curiously contented. …
Survivors (TV Series) (1975-1977): Feat. Carolyn Seymour, Ian McCulloch, Lucy Fleming; Memorable post–apocalyptic drama serial following a small group of survivors after 99.9% of Earth’s population has been wiped out by a deadly…
Ultimate Warrior (1975): Dir. Robert Clouse
Feat. Max von Sydow, Yul Brynner; Post–Armageddon tale with Max Von Sydow as a tyrannical dictator and Yul Brynner a rebel street–fighter.
Chosen Survivors (1974): Dir. Sutton Roley
Feat. Jackie Cooper, Alex Cord, Richard Jaeckel…; Sci–fi horror about a group of people who have been flown to a futuristic bomb shelter in the desert, after being chosen at random to survive…
Dark Star (1974): Dir. John Carpenter
Feat. Brian Narelle, Dre Pahich, Carl Kuniholm…; Directing debut of Carpenter contains that renegade spirit that is so often lost further down career paths. With ALIEN scribe Dan O'Bannon, he forges…
Day of the Dolphin, The (1974): Dir. Mike Nichols
Feat. George C. Scott, Trish Van Devere, Paul Sorvino…; An ecological sci–fi thriller, based on a French novel by Robert Merle. George C Scott stars as a scientist who has trained two dolphins to…
Godzilla Vs. Mechagodzilla (Godzilla Vs. The Cosmic Monster) (1974): Dir. Jun Fukuda
Feat. Masaaki Daimon; A titanium cyborg Godzilla, manufactured by invading aliens, is the big lizard’s foe in this 14th film of the franchise.
Invasion: UFO (1974): Dir. Gerry Anderson
Feat. Ed Bishop, Michael Billington, Gabrielle Drake; A feature film cleverly edited from several episodes of Gerry Anderson's UFO TV Series. Set in the year of 1980, S.H.A.D.O. (Supreme Headquarters…
Kolchak: The Night Stalker (TV Series) (1974-1975): Feat. Darren McGavin, Simon Oakland, Jack Grinnage; Darkly comic supernatural series following newspaper reporter Carl Kochak as he attempts to uncover supernatural occurrences in downtown Chicago.…
Land of the Lost (TV Series) (1974): Feat. Wesley Eure, Philip Paley, Kathy Coleman; Oddly camp Saturday morning TV show following forest ranger Rick Marshall and his two children who inadvertently opened a rift in time, and now must…
Phase IV (Phase 4) (1974): Strange structures are appearing in the desert. Scientists are shocked to find that they are the work of super intelligent ants with sinister motives.
Planet of the Apes (TV Series) (1974): Dir. Various, Don Weis, Arnold Laven
Feat. Roddy McDowall, James Naughton, Booth Colman; Continuing the ‘APES’ sequence of movies, this entertainingly fills–out the initial conceit. Roddy McDowall crosses over to the…
Space 1999 (TV Series) (1974- 1978): Dir. David Tomblin
Feat. Martin Landau, Barbara Bain, Barry Morse…; A live–action creation from puppet–master Gerry Anderson about a crew of scientists stationed on "Moonbase Alpha". With sterling…
Sun Ra - Space is the Place (1974): Dir. John Coney; Mind–straining curiosity has freaky jazz bandleader Sun Ra and his "Intergalactic Solar Arkestra" landing on Earth in a yellow spaceship and…
Terminal Man, The (1974): Dir. Mike Hodges
Feat. George Segal, Joan Hackett, Richard Dysart…; A man experiencing violent seizures agrees to undergo experimental treatment involving the implantation of microcomputers in his brain. Seventies…
Zardoz (1974): Dir. John Boorman
Feat. Sean Connery, Charlotte Rampling; Sean Connery stars in this enigmatic, garish space odyssey about a group of eternally young intellectuals in the year 2293. The bizarre visual…
Battle for the Planet of the Apes (1973): Dir. J. Lee Thompson
Feat. Roddy McDowall, Claude Akins, Severn Darden; Tired final film in the saga is a chronological prequel to the original that also tries to patch up loose ends of the other chapters. Still…
Doctor Who - Bred for War: The Sontaran Collection (1973-1985): Feat. Jon Pertwee, Tom Baker, Colin Baker…; Dr. Who Box Set containing four episodes featuring the alien species 'The Sontarans,' featuring Jon Pertwee, Tom Baker, Colin Baker and Patrick…
Fantastic Planet (1973): Dir. Rene Laloux; Cannes award–winning, delightfully animated film concerning the class struggle and eventual war between two alien races. Videotape edition…
Godzilla Vs. Megalon (1973): Dir. Jun Fukuda; The 13th film in the Godzilla franchise and Showa series has underground nuclear tests upsetting an undersea civilization who set a beetle–like…
Moonbase 3 (TV Series) (1973): Feat. Donald Houston, Ralph Bates; A British sci–fi show set in 2003 when five world powers have colonised the moon, the third of which is a European base run by Donald Houston…
Sleeper (1973): Dir. Woody Allen
Feat. Woody Allen, Diane Keaton; Woody Allen plays a health–food shop owner who is frozen and awakened 200 years later in a fascist state. His campy version of the future…
Soylent Green (1973): Dir. Richard Fleischer
Feat. Charlton Heston, Edward G. Robinson, Leigh Taylor-Young; Charlton Heston reprises his brusque persona from PLANET OF THE APES for this post–nuke, sardine–jammed New York story of 2022.…
Star Trek - The Animated Series (TV Series) (1973): A respectful rendition of the Star Trek universe, this early seventies "Filmation" reprised the space explorations of Captain Kirk and crew, complete…
Tomorrow People, The (TV Series) (1973): Dir. Paul Bernard
Feat. Nicholas Young; Fitted out with stun–guns, digital watches and a talking biotronic computer called TIM, a group of highly–evolved youngsters also enjoy…
Westworld (1973): Dir. Michael Crichton
Feat. Yul Brynner, Richard Benjamin, James Brolin; A theme–park where one experiences violent fantasies in perfect safety gradually goes haywire. Inspired idea would strike the big time for…
World on a Wire (1973): Dir. Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Feat. Klaus Löwitsch, Mascha Rabben, Adrian Hoven…; Fassbinder's one–and–only sci–fi foray is awash with trademark visual motifs, gaudy fashion, and dramatic power struggles of the…
Beware the Blob (Son of the Blob) (1972): Dir. Larry Hagman
Feat. Burgess Meredith, Dick Van Patten, Robert Walker Jnr; A light, spoofish sequel to the 50s sci–fi–er in the best Z–grade traditions. And yes, this was directed by DALLAS–star…
Conquest of the Planet of the Apes (1972): Dir. J. Lee Thompson
Feat. Roddy McDowall; The fourth in the series prefaces the original as enslaved Apes revolt against the humans. Worthwhile for those wishing to fill in the gaps of the…
Godzilla Vs. Gigan (1972): Dir. Jun Fukuda; The 12th film in the Godzilla franchise concerns aliens plotting to conquer the world using space monsters Gigan and King Ghidrah, which they control…
Night of the Lepus (1972): Dir. William Claxton
Feat. Stuart Whitman, Janet Leigh, Rory Calhoun; One of the most incredibly lame (and strange and entertaining) horror films of all time, in which giant mutant rabbits terrorize a small community in…
Slaughterhouse Five (1972): Dir. George Roy Hill
Feat. Michael Sacks, Ron Leibman, Eugene Roche; Though a conservative adaptation of Kurt Vonnegut's time–tripping novel, this is still a significant entry to the genre, with a wide cult…
Solaris (1972): Dir. Andrei Tarkovsky
Feat. Donatas Banionis, Natalya Bondarchuk, Juri Jarvet; Brilliant imagery permeates this provocative insight into life on an isolated space station, where madness threatens all who work there. Paced to…
State of Siege (1972): Dir. Costa-Gavras
Feat. Yves Montand, Renato Salvatori, Maurice Teynac; Influenced by the rise to power of Uruguay's 1970s dictatorship, Costa–Gavras's gritty drama follows the kidnapping and interrogation of U.S.…
Stone Tape, The (1972): Dir. Peter Sasdy
Feat. Jane Asher, Michael Bryant; Interesting TV ‘one–off’ sees a boisterous electronic research–team set up in a run–down country estate, then become…
Andromeda Strain, The (1971): Dir. Robert Wise
Feat. Arthur Hill, David Wayne, James Olson…; Four experts undergo a rigid sterilisation program to identify a deadly virus that has wiped out a small town. Fascinating science parable adapted…
Clockwork Orange, A (1971): Dir. Stanley Kubrick
Feat. Malcolm McDowell, Patrick Magee, Michael Bates…; From Anthony Burgess' novel, Stanley Kubrick flexes his genius with this electrifying satire about an ultra–violent gang of 'droogs' whose…
Dracula vs. Frankenstein (Blood of Frankenstein) (1971): Dir. Al Adamson
Feat. J. Carrol Naish, Lon Jr. Chaney, Anthony Eisley; J. Carrol Naish plays a mad scientist in a wheelchair who conspires with Dracula to resurrect Frankenstein, in this C–grade horror that finds…
Escape from the Planet of the Apes (1971): Dir. Don Taylor
Feat. Roddy McDowall, Kim Hunter; Second sequel brings the Apes back in time to contemporary LA, where the dominant human race exploit the simians. The gimmick makes it hard to…
Godzilla Vs. Hedorah (Godzilla vs. the Smog Monster) (1971): Dir. Yoshimitsu Banno; The 11th film in the Godzilla franchise and the 'Showa' series features a microscopic alien life–form that feeds on Earth's pollution and grows…
Octaman (1971): Dir. Harry Essex
Feat. Pier Angeli, Kerwin Mathews, Jeff Morrow; Z–grade sci–fi, made in the 70s but with its heart in the 50s, which concerns a mutant octopus–like creature which descends upon…
Omega Man (1971): Dir. Boris Sagal
Feat. Charlton Heston, Anthony Zerbe, Rosalind Cash; Charlton Heston is the last man on earth in this passable screen version of Richard Matheson's classic novel 'I am Legend'.
Punishment Park (1971): Dir. Peter Watkins; Extraordinary, 'fictionalised' docu–drama from the unique and largely unheralded talent of British director Peter Watkins, portraying the…
Silent Running (1971): Dir. Douglas Trumball
Feat. Bruce Dern, Cliff Potts, Ron Rifkin…; Environmental parable stars Bruce Dern as a space–station botanist who defies authority to preserve final samples of Earth's vegetation. A…
Beneath the Planet of the Apes (1970): Dir. Ted Post
Feat. James Franciscus, Kim Hunter, Maurice Evans; First and arguably the best of the sequels continues the set up of the original with James Franciscus burrowing underground to discover a mutant…
City Beneath the Sea (1970): Dir. Irwin Allen
Feat. Robert Wagner, Joseph Cotton, Richard Basehart…; Originally a TV–Movie, this concerns a future oceanic metropolis populated by the likes of Robert Wagner, Joseph Cotton, Richard Basehart and…
Colossus - The Forbin Project (1970): Dir. Joseph Sargent
Feat. Eric Braeden, Susan Clark, Gordon Pinsent; Believably unsettling cold war parable concerning a huge electronic brain called Colossus, designed to control the American missile defense system.…
Crimes of the Future (1970): Dir. David Cronenberg
Feat. Ronald Mlodzik, Jon Lidolt, Tania Zolty…; Cronenberg's sophomore feature "Crimes of the Future" takes Stereo's stylings even further into the realms of intentional loopiness. The plot…
Doctor Who (TV Series) [Jon Pertwee] (Dr. Who) (1970-1974): Feat. Jon Pertwee; Jon Pertwee took over from Patrick Troughton as the third and one of the most memorable 'Doctors' in the long–running BBC series. Pertwee…
Night Gallery (TV Series) (1970-1973): Feat. Rod Serling; Spooky suspense series, hosted by Rod Serling, with each episode adapted from a sci–fi and horror short story. While not up to Serling's…
THX-1138 (1970): Dir. George Lucas
Feat. Robert Duvall, Donald Pleasence, Don Pedro Colley; The man behind STAR WARS and, yep, THX digital sound, made his feature debut with this stark sci–fi chamber piece, most remembered for its…
Timeslip (TV Series) (1970-1971): Feat. Spencer Banks, Cheryl Burfield, Denis Quilley; A smart children’s sci–fi series that tells in four separate stories what happens when two intrepid siblings discover an invisible portal…
Illustrated Man, The (1969): Dir. Jack Smight
Feat. Rod Steiger, Claire Bloom; Bizarrely conceived encounter with an embittered Rod Steiger, who tells a stranger of his all–over body tattoos, which then mysteriously induce…
Journey to the Far Side of the Sun (Doppelganger) (1969): Dir. Robert Parish
Feat. Roy Thinnes, Lynn Loring, Herbert Lom; Venturing behind the sun to a planet that turns out to be the mirror opposite of Earth, Roy Thinnes heads the space crew that come face to face with…
Marooned (Space Travelers) (1969): Dir. John Sturges
Feat. Gene Hackman, Richard Crenna, Gregory Peck…; An excellent outer space thriller which proffers an APOLLO 13–like situation of NASA astronauts being stuck in orbit, while the Earthbound…
Moon Zero Two (1969): Dir. Roy Ward Baker
Feat. James Olson, Catherina Von Schell, Warren Mitchell…; Low–budget science fiction foray from Hammer Films, billed as the first moon "western" and released very soon after the first moon landing in…
Secret Service, The (TV Series) (1969): Gerry and Sylvia Anderson's (THUNDERBIRDS) final excursion into "supermarionation", this gadget–laden spy series concerns a priest (voiced by…
U.F.O. (TV Series) (1969): Feat. Ed Bishop, Michael Billington, Gabrielle Drake; Supermarionator Gerry Anderson pulls the strings on this live–action sci–fi series, full of the same secret agencies, evil empires and…
Valley of Gwangi, The (1969): Dir. James O'Connelly
Feat. James Franciscus, Gila Golan, Richard Carlson…; Ray Harryhausen's stop–motion stuff animates this monster–mash about Wild West drifters who try to cash in on the prehistoric creature…
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968): Dir. Stanley Kubrick
Feat. Keir Dullea, Gary Lockwood, William Sylvester; Stanley Kubrick's milestone sci–fi film is a magnificent visual wonder. Based on the short story 'The Sentinal' by Arthur C. Clarke, this…
Barbarella (1968): Dir. Roger Vadim
Feat. Jane Fonda, John Phillip Law, Milo O'Shea…; Camp fantasy film starring Jane Fonda as an innocent space vixen who adventures through lands of drooling men and phallic spaceships. Funny, crazy…
Countdown (1968): Dir. Robert Altman
Feat. James Caan, Robert Duvall, Joanna Moore…; An early and unusual space–travel drama from dir. Altman, in which American astronaut Caan must undergo tough training with instructor Duvall…
Destroy All Monsters! (1968): Dir. Inoshiro Honda
Feat. Akira Kubo, Yukiko Kobayashi; All–star monstrosity from Japan's Toho studios, who did for giant rubber–suits what Hammer did for fangs. Godzilla, Mothra, Rodan et al…
Joe 90 (TV Series) (1968): Dir. Gerry Anderson; All thirty episodes of Gerry Anderson's wonder boy of hi–tech espionage. With a subtext as high camp as the theme song, this may well send you…
Land of the Giants (TV Series) (1968-1970): Feat. Gary Conway, Don Marshall; Irwin Allen's long lost sci–fi adventure for the ages finally comes to DVD! In the future (1983), a spaceship of travellers crash lands on a…
Planet of the Apes (1968): Dir. Franklin J. Schaffner
Feat. Charlton Heston, Roddy McDowall; Classic sci–fi is a perfect blend of high entertainment and thought–provoking allegory. Charlton Heston and his band of…
Planet of the Apes Box Set (Planet of the Apes, Beneath the Planet of the Apes, Escape from the Planet of the Apes, Conquest of) (1968-1973): Feat. Charlton Heston, Roddy McDowall, Kim Hunter…
Space Thing (1968): Dir. Byron Mabe; Sexploitation in space from cult producer David F. Friedman, this dreams up a story about the spaceship S.S. Supreme Erection, which is voyaging the…
Thunderbird 6 (1968): Dir. David Lane; Ah! So there is a sixth Thunderbird! See it battle with the Black Phantom in this second and final T–bird feature.
Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons (TV Series) (1967): Dir. Gerry Anderson; The complete series of Gerry Anderson's most technically accomplished sci–fi puppet, Captain Scarlet, who has limitless clones of himself…
Fahrenheit 451 (1967): Dir. Francois Truffaut
Feat. Oskar Werner, Julie Christie, Cyril Cusack…; Adaptation of Ray Bradbury's sci–fi novel, set in a book–burning 'utopian' future, has naïve fireman Oskar Werner questioning the…
Herculoids, The (TV Series) (1967): Dir. Joseph Barbera, William Hanna; Saturday–morning cartoon from Hanna–Barbera in the late 60's, following a space barbarian family and their giant pets the Herculoids…
Invaders, The (TV Series) (1967-1968): Feat. Roy Thinnes, Diane Baker, J.D. Cannon…; After a close encounter with an alien spacecraft, architect David Vincent (Roy Thinnes) tries to persuade a skeptical world that…
Night of the Big Heat (1967): Dir. Terence Fisher
Feat. Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing; An extreme heatwave blankets an English winter, the cause of which is neither natural nor human. Eerie and stylish sci–fi with Christopher Lee…
Quatermass and the Pit (1967): Dir. Roy Ward Baker
Feat. James Donald, Andrew Keir, Barbara Shelley; Excellent update for the big–screen of the 50's cult TV serial harnesses a rich sense of intrigue through its perceptive script about an alien…
Rocket To The Moon (1967): Dir. Don Sharp
Feat. Burl Ives, Troy Donahue, Gert Frobe…; Jules Verne’s sci–fi classic gets a stupendously silly makeover in this comic chronicle of a scientific consortium’s attempts to launch a…
Sorcerers, The (1967): Dir. Michael Reeves
Feat. Boris Karloff, Catherine Lacey, Ian Ogilvy…; An aging couple conduct secret experiments in vicarious mind–control, living out perverse scenarios through young and unwitting victims.…
Yongary (Yongary, Monster from the Deep) (1967): Dir. Kim Ki-duk
Feat. Oh Yeong-il, Nam Jeong-im; In the aftermath of a nuclear bomb test, a giant reptilian monster emerges and proceeds to lay waste to Seoul. A spectacularly bad Godzilla…
Batman (TV Series) (1966-1968): Feat. Adam West, Burt Ward, Burgess Meredith…; Batman and Robin, as many would best remember them, take on a succession of colourful Gotham City villains – Catwoman, The Joker, The Penguin,…
Batman: The Movie (1966): Dir. Leslie Martinson
Feat. Adam West, Burt Ward, Lee Meriwether…; Spawned from the original sixties TV series, this feature–length adventure pitting the caper crusader against his fiercest adversaries was the…
Daleks - Invasion Earth 2150 AD (1966): Dir. Gordon Flemyng
Feat. Peter Cushing, Bernard Cribbins, Ray Brooks; A mixed attempt to translate Doctor Who (Peter Cushing in this incarnation) to the big screen, with Daleks enslaving humans in a future,…
Doctor Who (TV Series) [Patrick Troughton] (Dr. Who) (1966-1969): Feat. Patrick Troughton, Patrick Troughton, Patrick Troughton…; After the disappearance of William Hartnell, the cult BBC series continued with Patrick Troughton assuming the mantle of the enigmatic…
Fantastic Voyage (1966): Dir. Richard Fleischer
Feat. Donald Pleasence, Raquel Welch, Stephen Boyd…; A team of 'experts' are miniaturized and injected into a high–ranking scientist as a last resort to repair his medical condition. An…
Godzilla vs. Monster Zero (1966): Dir. Inoshiro Honda
Feat. Nick Adams, Akira Takarada; Effective monster movie has an alien civilisation 'borrowing' Godzilla and Rodan to save their world from the dreaded King Ghidrah and the…
Godzilla vs. Sea Monster (1966): Dir. Jun Fukuda
Feat. Akira Takarada, Kumi Mizuno; Lively Godzilla entry sees big G team with Mothra to battle Ebirah, the giant shrimp. The tiny twins Alilenas put in an appearance too. Dubbed.
Manos The Hands of Fate (1966): Dir. Harold P. Warren; Legendary cult turkey concerning a family looking for a place to stay in the desert, and picking a sinister ranch–house looked after by a…
Projected Man, The (1966): Dir. Ian Curteis
Feat. Bryant Halliday; Laboratory misadventure yarn derived in part from THE FLY: a researcher tests his laser device on himself and regrets it.
Seconds (1966): Dir. John Frankenheimer
Feat. Rock Hudson; Boldly experimental thriller from the director of THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE, in which a bored businessman opts for a new, 'more fulfilling' identity…
Star Trek - Season 3 (TV Series) (1966): Feat. William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley…; Further adventures of Captain Kirk and crew, on the Starship Enterprise. Complete Third Season over 7 discs. Episodes: Disc 1 – Spock's…
Thunderbirds Are Go! (1966): Dir. David Lane
Feat. Cliff Richard, The Shadows; Gordon, Virgil, Lady Penelope, Brains and other super–marionettes from International Space Rescue Service check in for their first FAB…
Time Tunnel, The (TV Series) (1966-1967): Dir. Irwin Allen
Feat. James Darren, John Zaremba, Lee Meriwether…; One of producer Irwin Allen's (LOST IN SPACE) most ambitious and successful series, finds two US scientists working on the secret time–travel…
Ultraman (TV Series) (1966): When the world is threatened by aloien invaders and giant prehistoric monsters, There is only one agency equipped with the high tech weaponry to…
Alphaville (1965): Dir. Jean-Luc Godard
Feat. Eddie Constantine, Anna Karina, Akim Tamiroff…; A private eye is sent to a futuristic city run by a computer to rescue a trapped scientist. Amalgam of film noir and science fiction illustrates the…
City Under the Sea (1965): Dir. Jacques Tourneur
Feat. Vincent Price; Cornish villagers discover a subterranean cult lead by Vincent Price in this hammy fantasy yarn.
Doctor Who and the Daleks (Dr. Who and the Daleks) (1965): Dir. Gordon Flemyng
Feat. Peter Cushing; First go at putting the classic TV serial on the big–screen, with Peter Cushing giving a pleasingly daffy rendition of the Doctor, combating…
Eye Creatures, The (1965): Dir. Larry Buchanan
Feat. John Ashley; Remake of INVASION OF THE SAUCER MEN is a laughable sci–fi shocker about creatures and the intrepid band that try to fight them off.
Gigantor (1965): Pioneering Japanese animation in which young Jimmy Sparks defends the Earth against marauding aliens using a... gigantic flying robot. An influence…
Journey to the Centre of Time / Wizard of Mars (1965-1967): Dir. D L Hewitt; Z–grade sci–fi double feature from director David L Hewitt. JOURNEY TO THE CENTRE OF TIME (1967) – This concerns a gigantic…
Lost in Space (TV Series) (1965- 1968): Feat. Guy Williams, June Lockhart; Re–live the kinda camp adventures of the Space Family Robinson. From mega–producer, Irwin Allen. The complete first Season available…
Planet of the Vampires (1965): Dir. Mario Bava
Feat. Barry Sullivan; Various crew members start disappearing while searching for signs of life on planet Aura. Atmospheric space adventure would pre–empt ALIEN by…
Star Trek - Season 2 (TV Series) (1965): Feat. William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley…; Further adventures of Captain Kirk and crew, on the Starship Enterprise. Complete Second Season over 8 discs. Episodes: Disc 1 – Amok…
Thunderbirds (TV Series) (1965- 1966): The complete series of Gerry Anderson's exemplary puppet suspense TV series that continues to enthrall new generations. Set around the…
Voyage to the Prehistoric Planet / Voyage to the Planet of Prehistoric Women (1965-1968): Dir. Curtis Harrington, Peter Bogdanovich
Feat. Basil Rathbone, Faith Domergue, Mamie Van Doren; A pair of notable cheese–fests from the "planet of the low–budget": Voyage to the Prehistoric Planet (1965) Directed by Curtis…
Earth Dies Screaming, The (1964): Dir. Terence Fisher
Feat. Willard Parker, Virginia Field, Dennis Price…; British sci–fi set in the aftermath of an alien invasion, with much of the earth laid to waste and a group led by an American pilot fighting to…
First Men in the Moon (H. G. Wells' First Men in the Moon) (1964): Dir. Nathan Juran
Feat. Edward Judd, Martha Hyer, Lionel Jeffries…; Typically stunning Ray Harryhausen effects are the main drawcard of this interesting, if minor sci–fi bauble adapted from H.G. Wells'…
Godzilla Vs Mothra (Godzilla Vs The Thing) (1964): Dir. Inoshiro Honda
Feat. Akira Takarada, Yuriko Hoshi; The hulk lizard of Japanese comic book legend takes on the recently hatched spawn of Mothra, with a little help from some spirited stop–motion…
Human Vapour, The (1964): Dir. Inoshiro Honda
Feat. Tatsuya Mihashi, Kaoru Yachigusa, Yoshio Tsuchiya; After an awry experiment, a benign librarian is able to spontaneously vapourize and get away with robbery, blackmail and murder in metropolitan…
Last Man on Earth, The (1964): Dir. Sidney Salkow
Feat. Vincent Price; Rough but effective version of Richard Matheson's "I Am Legend" (also the basis for OMEGA MAN), Price playing the last living survivor of the human…
Misadventures of Merlin Jones, The (1964): Dir. Robert Stevenson
Feat. Tommy Kirk, Annette Funicello, Leon Ames; Disney live–actioner about a brainy freshman (Kirk) who causes a stir on campus when he goes to college, with the help of a mind–reading…
Monstrosity (The Atomic Brain) (1964): Dir. Joseph V. Mascelli
Feat. Frank Gerstle; An elderly woman pays a mad scientist to create a new body for her in his fiendish laboratory, by somehow utilising nuclear power and three beautiful…
Robinson Crusoe on Mars (1964): Dir. Byron Haskin
Feat. Paul Mantee, Adam West, Victor Lundin; Unusually accurate pre–space age adventure chronicles the marooning of an American astronaut on inhospitable Mars, sometime before mankind…
Santa Claus Conquers the Martians (1964): Dir. Nicholas Webster
Feat. Pia Zadora; Kidnapping Santa because their children have become obsessed with Christmas due to TV broadcasts from Earth, the Martians get more than they bargain…
Satan Bug, The (1964): Dir. John Sturges
Feat. Alistair Maclean, Richard Basehart; Set in a hushed desert landscape of secret government laboratories and ominous rock–formations, this Cold War paranoia–thriller…
Star Trek - Season 1 (TV Series) (1964): Feat. Jeffrey Hunter, William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy…; The original Star Trek series was a milestone in television – as one of the best sci–fi conceptions and as the start of a remarkable…
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (TV Series) (1964): Feat. Richard Basehart, David Hedison; A spin–off of Irwin Allen's 1961 underwater adventure movie about top–secret team sent below waters to battle enemies of…
Astro Boy (TV Series) (1963-1980): Dir. Noboro Ishiguro; The Japanese–animated robot boy struts his stuff in this historic series, performing Superman–style heroic deeds and dealing with a bit…
Damned, The (These Are The Damned) (1963): Dir. Joseph Losey
Feat. Macdonald Carey, Shirley Anne Field, Viveca Lindfors…; Dir. Joseph Losey’s bleak but brilliant movie about a breed of radioactive children groomed to withstand a nuclear apocalypse is one of best…
Day of the Triffids (1963): Dir. Steve Sekely
Feat. Howard Keel, Nicole Maurey; Harmless plants mutate into giant man–eaters after a strange meteor blinds those who witnessed it. From John Wyndham's famous novel.
Doctor Who (TV Series) [William Hartnell] (Dr. Who) (1963-1966): Feat. William Hartnell; William Hartnell plays the very first incarnation of the BBC's highly successful TV creation, the resourceful Time Lord "Doctor Who" who travels time…
Godzilla vs. King Kong (1963): Dir. Inoshiro Honda
Feat. Tadao Takashima, Kenji Sahara; Two titans of movie monsterdom battle it out over a low–budget Tokyo set.
Mind Benders, The (1963): Dir. Basil Dearden
Feat. Dirk Bogarde, Mary Ure, Michael Bryant…; A sombre and sobering thriller about the dangers of scientific experiments into sensory deprivation. Investigating the suicide of a colleague,…
Outer Limits, The (TV Series) (1963-1964): Dir. Byron Haskin, Laslo Benedek, Various.
Feat. Cliff Robertson, Martin Landau, Shirley Knight…; Seminal TV series that explored the universal themes of time, space and humankind. Twelve hour–long episodes contained on four volumes, with…
Stingray (TV Series) (1963): Dir. Gerry Anderson; One of Gerry and Sylvia Anderson's first 'Supermarionation' series, set around W.A.S.P. and the submarine 'Stingray' as it battles the evil…
X - The Man with the X-Ray Eyes (1963): Dir. Roger Corman
Feat. Ray Milland, Don Rickles, John Hoyt…; Furrow–browed scientist Ray Milland discovers the ability to see through matters, and takes advantage with card games and ladies etc., but…
Day the Earth Caught Fire, The (1962): Dir. Val Guest
Feat. Edward Judd, Leo McKern; A solidly old–fashioned 'disaster film' in which H–Bomb test knock the Earth of its axis, leading to terrifying and accelerating climate…
Fireball XL5 (TV Series) (1962): Dir. Gerry Anderson; A precursor to the Thunderbirds, Fireball XL5 is a massive spacecraft, patrolling a dangerous sector of the galaxy and piloted by the handsome and…
First Spaceship On Venus (1962): Dir. Kurt Maetzig
Feat. Yoko Tani, Oldrich Lukes, Ignacy Machowski; Adapted from a novel by Polish sci–fi writer Stanislaw Lem (SOLARIS), this follows an expedition to Venus to discover the ravaged remains of an…
Journey to the Seventh Planet / Planet of Blood (1962-1966): Dir. Sidney Pink, Curtis Harrington
Feat. Basil Rathbone, Dennis Hopper, John Saxon…; Two inventive low–budget science fiction films from the 1960s that influenced later films. JOURNEY TO THE 7TH PLANET (1962) –…
Panic in Year Zero (1962): Dir. Ray Milland
Feat. Ray Milland, Jean Hagen, Frankie Avalon; Eerily filmed in black–and–white, this is a minimalist yet vividly detailed post–apocalyptic survival thriller directed by Ray…
Planeta Bur: The Planet of Storms (1962): Dir. Pavel Klushantsev
Feat. Vladimir Yemelyanov, Georgi Zhzhyonov, Yuri Sarantsev; Cult science–fiction with Russian cosmonauts landing on a Venus teeming with flesh–eating plants, lizard men and dinosaurs! Ingeniously…
Reptilicus (1962): Dir. Sidney Pink
Feat. Carl Ottosen, Ann Smyrner; Many chuckles to be had at the expense of this mini–budgeted monster mash filmed in Denmark. A prehistoric creature rejuvenates itself and…
Slime People, The (1962): Dir. Robert Hutton
Feat. Robert Hutton, Les Tremayne, Robert Burton; Fairly basic B–grade monster paranoia with slimy, reptilian breed of creatures being awoken by nuclear testing and heading out to hunt humans…
Andromeda Anthology, The (TV Series) (A for Andromeda, Andromeda Breakthrough) (1961-1962): Dir. Michael Hayes, John Elliot, John Knight
Feat. Julie Christie, Susan Hampshire; Cold War parable within a British sci–fi skin, this chronicles the fight against an alien super–computer whose designers transmit…
Gorgo (1961): Dir. Eugene Lourie
Feat. Bill Travers, William Sylvester; When a baby sea–monster is fished out and paraded as a London circus exhibit, big, bad Momma soon enough comes lookin' for junior. Previously…
Phantom Planet, The (1961): Dir. William Marshall
Feat. Dean Fredericks, Coleen Gray, Francis X. Bushman…; Spacy variation on Gulliver's Travels in which an astronaut is shrunk to six inches before helping out a tiny race rid their world of nemesis Richard…
Supercar (TV Series) (1961-1962): The first fully developed Supermarionation series from Gerry Anderson, establishing his winning formula of futuristic vehicles, high adventure, and…
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (1961): Dir. Irwin Allen
Feat. Walter Pidgeon, Peter Lorre, Joan Fontaine…; Admiral Walter Pidgeon takes his brand new atomic submarine for a drive with Commander Peter Lorre, just as a cosmic catastrophe occurs – the…
Amazing Transparent Man, The (1960): Dir. Edgar G. Ulmer
Feat. Douglas Kennedy, Marguerite Chapman; Underrated, though still fairly tacky mad–scientist caper in which Douglas Kennedy turns a convict invisible so he can steal uranium for…
My Favourite Martian (TV Series) (1960): Dir. Sheldon Leonard
Feat. Ray Walston, Bill Bixby; Affectionate 60's TV sitcom starring Ray Walston and Bill Bixby about a friendly alien who settles down in modern America. Season One: 37 episodes…
Time Machine, The (1960): Dir. George Pal
Feat. Rod Taylor, Alan Young, Yvette Mimieux; Distinguished version of the H G Wells novel, with Rod Taylor as the scientist who invents a machine to take him back in time, then ultimately to a…
Wasp Woman, The (1960): Dir. Roger Corman
Feat. Susan Cabot, Michael Mark; A glamorous but ageing cosmetic executive develops an age–retarding serum, but her lust for youth and wealth is besieged by ugly…
4D Man (1959): Dir. Irvin S. Yeaworth
Feat. Robert Lansing; Sullen scientist Robert Lansing becomes greedy and homicidal after being charged with the ability to pass through solid matter. A certain…
Angry Red Planet (1959): Dir. Ib Melchior
Feat. Gerald Mohr, Norah Hayden; An expedition to Mars runs into all sorts of alien terrors in this extraterrestrial romp. 'Cinemagic' (which turns everything pink) is just one of…
Atomic Submarine (1959): Dir. Spencer Gordon Bennet
Feat. Arthur Franz, Dick Foran; Entertaining sci–fi thriller with a decent script and a believable cast, even if the small budget is plainly obvious.
Attack of the Giant Leeches (1959): Dir. Bernard Kowalski
Feat. Yvette Vickers; A 'rubber–suited' swamp thing lurks in a Florida bayou. Even B–movie aficianados shouldn't get suckered by this one. 'Stars' Yvette…
Beyond the Time Barrier (1959): Dir. Edgar G. Ulmer
Feat. Robert Clarke; An astronaut on a space mission is unwittingly catapulted into a plague–ridden Earth of 50 years into the future. Inriguing low–budgeter…
Giant Behemoth, The (Behemoth the Sea Monster) (1959): Dir. Eugene Lourie, Douglas Hickox
Feat. Gene Evans, Andre Morell; Cult low–budget creature feature where a dormant dinosaur is resurrected during botched nuclear testing, and rampages through the city of…
Journey to the Centre of the Earth (1959): Dir. Henry Levin
Feat. James Mason, Pat Boone; James Mason and Pat Boone head an intrepid earth–burrowing expedition in good, old fashioned adventure based on Jules Verne's novel.
Killer Shrews, The (1959): Dir. Ray Kellogg
Feat. James Best, Ken Curtis; Low–budget B–movie set on an isolated island where a small group of people are terrorized by giant voracious shrews in the midst of a…
Last Days of Pompeii / City of Metropolis (1959-1961): Dir. Mario Bonnard, Umberto Scarpelli
Feat. Steve Reeves, Christine Kaufmann, Fernando Rey; Two dubbed 'spaghetti epics' from the heyday of the 1950s and 1960s: The Last Days of Pompeii (1959) Directed by Mario Bonnard –…
One Step Beyond (TV Series) (1959): Feat. John Newland; Classic television series billed as 'your guide to the supernatural' serves half–hour docudramas of unexplained, paranormal 'true events'.…
Teenagers from Outer Space (the Gargon Terror) (1959): Dir. Tom Graeff
Feat. David Love, Dawn Bender, Bryan Grant; Perhaps the ropiest of the ‘TEENAGE…’ 50s drive–ins, with two aliens visiting Earth as teens, one ‘good’, the…
Twilight Zone, The (Original TV Series) (1959-1964): Dir. Robert Parrish, Jack Smight, John Brahm
Feat. Agnes Moorehead, Ed Wynn, Jack Warden…; Iconic and influential cult TV series with self–contained episodes telling sci–fi tinged tales of the unexpected and mysterious,…
Astounding She-Monster, The (1958): Dir. Ronnie Ashcroft
Feat. Robert Clarke; Cheap drive–in fodder has a deadly female alien crash–land near the hideout of a band of kidnappers. Some fun to be had with the cheesy…
Attack of the Puppet People (1958): Dir. Bert I. Gordon
Feat. John Agar, John Hoyt, June Kenney…; One of the earliest depictions of the creepy puppet master, this low budget sci–fi horror follows a doll maker with abandonment issues who…
Blob, The (1958): Dir. Irvin S. Yeaworth
Feat. Steve McQueen; Steve McQueen's first film sees him as a teenager trying to save his home town from a hostile hunk of red protoplasm. Camp fun as only the 50's could…
Brain Eaters, The (1958): Dir. Bruno VeSota
Feat. Ed Nelson, Alan Frost, Cornelius Keefe…; Shoestring drive–in fare about brain creatures from the Earth's core that go about turning humans into mindless zombies.
First Man Into Space (1958): Dir. Robert Day
Feat. Marshall Thompson, Marla Landi; A test pilot disobeys orders and takes his experimental ship higher than man has ever been before, but not without suffering a bizarre and horrible…
Fly, The (1958): Dir. Kurt Neumann
Feat. David Hedison, Patricia Owens, Vincent Price; Classic B–movie is a hammy horror tale of an obsessed scientist who unwittingly turns himself into a freak of nature.
I Married a Monster From Outer Space (1958): Dir. Gene Fowler Jnr.
Feat. Tom Tryon, Gloria Talbott; An exceptional, well–directed 1950's B–movie in which a race of monster–like aliens try to conquer Earth by taking over a…
Invisible Man, The (TV Series) (H. G. Well's Invisible Man) (1958-1960): Feat. Tim Turner; H.G Wells’ classic sci–fi premise is preserved in this superior television adaptation of science gone awry. Tim Turner plays the eponymous…
It! The Terror From Beyond Space (1958): Dir. Edward L. Cahn
Feat. Marshall Thompson, Kim Spalding, Shawn Smith; 50's sci–fi horror set in a future 1973. A hostile martian life form stows away on a rescue ship heading to Mars to recover survivors of an…
Quatermass and the Pit (TV Series) (1958): Dir. Nigel Kneale
Feat. Andre Morell, Cec Linder, Anthony Bushell; The third in the landmark trilogy of serials involves Professor Quatermass in the excavation of an ancient alien–insect capsule in London, and…
Queen of Outer Space (1958): Dir. Edward Bernds
Feat. Zsa Zsa Gabor, Laurie Mitchell, Eric Fleming; Campy cult fantasy with an American space crew crash landing on Venus, which is inhabited by beautiful woman presided over by a despotic Queen.
Sinbad Collector's Edition (Seventh Voyage of Sinbad, Golden Voyage of Sinbad, Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger) (1958-1977): Feat. Kerwin Mathews, John Phillip Law, Patrick Wayne
Terror from the Year 5,000 (1958): Dir. Robert J. Gurney
Feat. Ward Costello, Joyce Holden, Frederic Downs; In a future contaminated with radioactivity, bizarre experiments with a time machine materialise with a terrifying she devil from 3000 years in the…
War Of The Colossal Beast (1958): Dir. Robert Gordon
Feat. Sally Fraser, Russ Bender, Rico Alaniz; Colossally inept sequel to the genuinely interesting AMAZING COLOSSAL MAN, has the scarred giant discovered looting government food trucks in the…
20 Million Miles To Earth (The Beast from Space, aka The Giant Ymir) (1957): Dir. Nathan Juran
Feat. William Hopper, Joan Taylor, Frank Puglia…; A superior 1950s 'monster mash' unfolds after the first spaceship to Venus crashes off Italy with a shy, but dangerous Venusian on board. Ray…
Amazing Colossal Man, The (1957): Dir. Bert I. Gordon
Feat. Glenn Langan; An army colonel (Glenn Langan) experiences growing pains (ten feet a day to be sure) after exposure to, you guessed it, radiation. His condition…
Brain from Planet Arous (1957): Dir. Nathan Juran
Feat. John Agar, Joyce Meadows, Robert Fuller; Cheesy 'killer–B' in which a bad alien brain inhabits the body of a small–town scientist and a good alien brain that inhabits the body of…
Curse of Frankenstein, The (1957): Dir. Terence Fisher
Feat. Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee; The first true Hammer gothic horror and number one in the Frankenstein series bringing together the fantastic talents of Cushing (as the Baron) and…
Fiend Without a Face (1957): Dir. Arthur Crabtree
Feat. Marshall Thompson, Kim Parker; Noteworthy 'alien invader' thriller in which creatures resembling the human brain run amok in a small town. Macabre proceedings are resolved in a…
Incredible Petrified World, The (1957): Dir. Jerry Warren
Feat. John Carradine, Robert Clarke, Phyllis Coates; This slimly plotted adventure has four divers trapped in an undersea cavern with a grim–faced hermit. This dull fate is soon livened by…
Incredible Shrinking Man (1957): Dir. Jack Arnold
Feat. Grant Williams, Randy Stuart; A man suffers a humiliatingly gradual size–reduction after exposure to radiation. A class act, compellingly told through water–tight…
Invasion of the Saucermen (1957): Dir. Edward L. Cahn
Feat. Steve Terrell, Gloria Castillo, Frank Gorshin…; This low budget sci–fi comedy has a reputation for being so bad it's good. Bulbous–headed aliens frame a teenager for drunk driving by…
Monster That Challenged the World, The (1957): Dir. Arnold Laven
Feat. Tim Holt, Audrey Dalton, Mimi Gibson…; Campy 50's sci–fi creature feature in which an underwater earthquake in California's Salton Sea causes a crevice to open, releasing an army of…
Mysterians, The (1957): Dir. Inoshiro Honda
Feat. Takashi Shimura, Kenji Sahara, Susumu Fujita; Pastel coloured invader movie from the creative team behind GODZILLA. Aliens refugees from a planet destroyed by atomic bombs flee to Earth in the…
Not of This Earth (1957): Dir. Roger Corman
Feat. Paul Birch, Beverly Garland; Another independent sci–fi from Roger Corman, this one tells the story of an extraterrestrial known as "Mr Johnson", who poses as a human while…
1984 (1956): Dir. Michael Anderson
Feat. Edmond O'Brien, Michael Redgrave, Jan Sterling…; The first adaptation of George Orwell's visionary novel is this little known, stark BBC television production. Apparently hated by his widow for the…
Day the World Ended (1956): Dir. Roger Corman
Feat. Richard Denning, Lori Nelson, Adele Jergens; Tight B–movie version of post–nuclear existence from with a small group of survivors battling various mutant creatures and their own…
Earth vs. the Flying Saucers (1956): Dir. Fred Sears
Feat. Hugh Marlowe, Joan Taylor; Animator Ray Harryhausen provides the fab effects for the familiar 50's alien invasion theme, making it a standout example of the genre.
Forbidden Planet (1956): Dir. Fred M. Wilcox
Feat. Walter Pidgeon, Anne Francis, Leslie Nielsen; Pre–eminent sci–fi film of the 50's with a story and special effects well beyond its time. This fascinating film launched the careers of…
Godzilla - King of the Monsters (1956): Dir. Inoshiro Honda, Terry O. Morse
Feat. Raymond Burr; The original US version of ‘Godzilla’ which spawned countless remakes and sequels. Raymond Burr plays a reporter investigating various disasters…
Indestructible Man (1956): Dir. Jack Pollexfen
Feat. Lon Jr. Chaney; Homicidal maniac Lon Chaney Jnr is revived, post–execution, by a mad scientist, before going on a revenge–spree. Interesting entry for…
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956): Dir. Don Siegel
Feat. Kevin McCarthy, Dana Wynter, Larry Gates…; 50's sci–fi masterpiece about alien pods replicating and replacing American townspeople. Whether read as a Communist or McCarthyist parable, it…
Phantom from 10,000 Leagues (1956): Dir. Dan Milner
Feat. Kent Taylor; Dredged from the darkest depths of B–Movie hell, this quaint 50s horror concerns a murderous underwater creature produced by leaking uranium.
Rodan (1956): Dir. Inoshiro Honda
Feat. Kenji Sahara, Akihiko Hirata; GODZILLA spin–off has a small Japanese town undergoing various monstrous threats, starting with caterpillars and ending with flying prehistoric…
Roger Corman Collection #2 (Creature from the Haunted Seas, It Conquered the World) (1956-1961): Dir. Roger Corman
Feat. Peter Graves, Lee Van Cleef, Beverly Garland…; A double–feature of Corman sci–fi 'quickies'. It Conquered the World (1956) – Van Cleef lures a malevolent alien from Venus to…
It Came from Beneath the Sea (1955): Dir. Robert Gordon
Feat. Kenneth Tobey, Faith Domergue, Ian Keith…; It's Ray Harryhausen again, so expect some dazzling special effects. A huge octopus emerges from the Pacific to wreak havoc on San Fransisco.
Panther Girl of the Kongo (1955): Dir. Franklin Adreon
Feat. Phyllis Coates, Myron Healey, Arthur Space; Cult movie serial which reworks stock footage from 1941's JUNGLE GIRL. A giant crayfish monster terrorises the African jungle and it's up to the…
Quatermass II (TV Series) (1955): Dir. Rudolph Cartier
Feat. John Robinson; Professor Quatermass returns (this time palyed by John Robinson) in Nigel Kneale's popular sci–fi serial of the 1950s. The six–part…
Tarantula! (1955): Dir. Jack Arnold
Feat. John Agar, Mara Corday, Leo G. Carroll…; One of the best B–movie directors of the 1950s crafts an effective tale of a manic scientist (Carroll) whose experiments unleash a gigantic and…
Cat Women of the Moon (1954): Dir. Arthur Hilton
Feat. Sonny Tufts, Victor Jory; Ed Wood might be given a run for his money with this drive–in cheapie about a moon expedition that discovers a man–hungry female…
Crash of the Moons (1954): Dir. Hollingsworth Morse
Feat. Scotty Beckett, Richard Crane; Feature–length edit of the classic sci–fi TV serial 'Rocky Jones Space Ranger' in which Richard Crane plays the raygun–toting hero…
Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954): Dir. Jack Arnold
Feat. Richard Carlson, Julie Adams, Richard Denning; A boatload of scientists variously misunderstand the actions of a subterranean humanoid that lurks in an Amazonian lagoon. Graceful handling of a…
Devil Girl From Mars (1954): Dir. David MacDonald
Feat. Patricia Laffan, Hugh McDermott, Adrienne Corri…; High camp sci–fi cheapie about a female alien commander from Mars who is sent to earth to collect human males as breeding stock to save the…
Godzilla (Gojira) (1954): Dir. Inoshiro Honda
Feat. Akira Takarada, Akihiko Hirata, Takashi Shimura; The original Japanese version of GODZILLA, complete with the anti–nuclear subplot which was cut from the 1956 US version. Concerns a…
Godzilla - Showa Classics Boxset (Godzilla; Mothra vs Godzilla; Invasion of the Astro-monster; Godzilla vs Ebirah; Son of Godzilla; Destroy All Monsters; All Monsters Attack; Terror of Mechagodzilla; Godzilla vs Hedorah; Gigan; Megalon; Mechagodzilla) (1954-1975): A dozen Godzilla movies from the King of Monsters' original creator, Showa Studios. Available in two volumes. Volume One: GODZILLA (50th…
Monster From the Ocean Floor (1954): Dir. Wyott Ordung; Ultra–cheap Corman production from the writer of 'Robot Monster' concerns a holidaying couple in Mexico who stumble across the monstrous (very…
Target Earth (1954): Dir. Sherman Rose
Feat. Richard Denning, Virginia Grey, Kathleen Crowley…; Invading alien robots trap people in an eerie deserted city. For all the 50s cliches this is mostly on–target.
Them! (1954): Dir. Gordon Douglas
Feat. James Whitmore, Edmund Gwenn; Mutated giant ants run amok after a nuclear test in the New Mexico desert. Atomic parable is a major studio '50s creature feature that benefits from…
This Island Earth (1954): Dir. Joseph Newman
Feat. Rex Reason, Jeff Morrow, Faith Domergue; Seriously cool sci–fi adventure with startling production values enriching its B–movie spirit. Rex Reason plays a scientist unwittingly…
Tobor the Great (1954): Dir. Lee Sholem
Feat. Charles Drake, Karin Booth, Franz Roehn…; Sentimental sci–fi curio examines the attachment between a young boy and a robot called Tobor. When dastardly communists kidnap the youngster…
War of the Worlds, The (1954): Dir. Byron Haskin
Feat. Gene Barry, Ann Robinson, Les Tremayne…; Atomic–age adaptation of H.G. Wells frightening novel about the Martian invasion is excitingly paced with special–effects that were then…
Beast from 20,000 Fathoms, The (1953): Dir. Eugene Lourie
Feat. Paul Christian, Paula Raymond; A–Bomb tests in the Arctic circle unearths an angry giant rhedosaurus! A landmark creature feature, it helped create a genre around experiments…
Commando Cody: Sky Marshall of the Universe (1953): Feat. Aline Towne, Gregory Gaye, Judd Holdren; Black–and–white TV series following the adventures of masked super–scientist Commando Cody, who is recruited by the U.S. government…
Donovan's Brain (1953): Dir. Felix Feist
Feat. Lew Ayres, Gene Evans; B–movie classic about a scientist who keeps alive the brain of a tyrannical tycoon and slowly succumbs to its sinister motives.
Invaders from Mars (1953): Dir. William Cameron Menzies
Feat. Jimmy Hunt, Helena Carter, Arthur Franz…; A young boy witnesses the landing and encroachment of hostile Martians. Paranoia allegory pre–dates the similarly–themed BODY SNATCHERS.
It Came from Outer Space (1953): Dir. Jack Arnold
Feat. Richard Carlson; A spaceship crash lands in the Arizona desert (where else?), causing friction between mild–mannered scientist Richard Carlson and the more…
Quatermass Experiment, The (TV Series) (1953): Dir. Rudolph Cartier
Feat. Reginald Tate, Isabel Dean; The seminal serial (in six parts) by award–winning writer Nigel Kneale that laid the foundations of British Sci–Fi TV.. This first…
Robot Monster (1953): Dir. Phil Tucker
Feat. George Barrows; Sharing the mantle with PLAN 9 FROM OUTER SPACE as the "worst movie of all time", this lesser–known unpolished turd is just as bad, only…
Invasion U.S.A. (1952): Dir. Alfred E. Green
Feat. Gerald Mohr, Peggie Castle, Dan O'Herlihy; A crudely devised, but fascinating slice of early Cold War paranoia, this has the 'Land of the Free' being invaded by hordes of Russians, with…
Radar Men from the Moon (1952): Dir. Fred C. Brannon
Feat. George Wallace, Roy Barcroft, Aline Towne…; Cracking Republic serial has Commando Cody taking on the baddies – including future Lone Ranger Moore – armed with his trusty aluminum…
Day the Earth Stood Still, The (1951): Dir. Robert Wise
Feat. Michael Rennie, Patricia Neal; The blueprint for excellence in fifties sci–fi, Michael Rennie plays Klaatu, a peace–seeking alien whose good intentions meet with…
Five (1951): Dir. Arch Oboler
Feat. William Phipps, Susan Douglas Rubeš, James Anderson…; Apocalyptic 50's sci–fi set in the aftermath of an atomic bomb disaster where five survivors (a pregnant woman, a philosopher, a black man, a…
Flight to Mars (1951): Dir. Lesley Selander
Feat. Cameron Mitchell, Marguerite Chapman, Virginia Huston…; Expedition adventure set on a Red Planet inhabited by an underground–dwelling but dying civilization that appear to be human.
Man From Planet X, The (1951): Dir. Edgar G. Ulmer
Feat. Robert Clarke, Margaret Field, William Schallert; As a mysterious planet hurls itself toward earth, an enigmatic extraterrestrial scout arrives on a remote Scottish island with unknown intentions. An…
Thing, The (The Thing From Another World) (1951): Dir. Christian Nyby
Feat. Kenneth Tobey, Robert Cornthwaite; Howard Hawksian macho men in leather tussle it out with men in cardies over how to protect themselves from the abomidable alien outside in the snow.…
When Worlds Collide (1951): Dir. Rudolph Mate
Feat. Richard Derr, Barbara Rush, Peter Hansen…; When Earth faces imminent and total destruction from an errant star, scientists must organise an evacuation in time to save the human race. Thrilling…
Destination Moon (1950): Dir. Irving Pichel
Feat. John Archer, Warner Anderson, Dick Wesson…; Prescient sci–fi film that deals with the practical scientific and engineering challenges of space travel and to speculate on what a manned…
Rocketship X-M (1950): Dir. Kurt Neumann
Feat. Lloyd Bridges; Lloyd Bridges leads a bunch of wisecracking astronauts to the moon, only they get diverted to Mars! Prototype sci–fi cheapie rolls out the…
Purple Monster Strikes, The (1946): Dir. Spencer Gordon Bennet, Fred C. Brannon
Feat. Dennis Moore, Roy Barcroft, Linda Stirling…; Charmingly hokey serial with a shape–shifting martian out to steal our best scientific secrets setting the stage for an alien invasion.
Superman (TV Series) (1941-1943): After being invented by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, then debuting as an 'Action Comics' superhero, Superman went on to become an animated movie…
Flash Gordon Serial (Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe) (1940): Dir. Ford Beebe
Feat. Larry "Buster" Crabbe, Carol Hughes, Charles Middleton; One of the early Flash Gordon serials, which enthralled audiences in the 1940s. Here Flash must battle Ming the Merciless who has unleashed the…
Buck Rogers- Original Complete Series (1939): Feat. Henry Brandon, Jackie Moran, Jack Mulhall…; Beloved classic series about a heroic pilot and his young passenger who crash–land on a mountaintop where a mysterious gas puts them into a…
Things to Come (1936): Dir. William Cameron Menzies
Feat. Ralph Richardson, Raymond Massey, Edward Chapman; Mind–boggling visualisation of a 21st century utopia, with ant–like humans inhabiting monolithic structures on towering, ten–acre…
Phantom Empire, The (1935): Feat. Gene Autry, Frankie Darro, Smiley Burnette; Oddball children's serial from the thirties has singing cowboy Autry discovering the last remaining inhabitants of the lost continent of Mu living…
She (1935): Dir. Irving Pichel, Lansing C. Holden
Feat. Randolph Scott, Helen Gahagan, Helen Mack…; Influential, special effects laden fantasy from KING KONG producer Merian C. Cooper about a beguiling, 500–year–old woman as ruler of a…
Vanishing Shadow, The (1934): Dir. Lew Landers
Feat. Onslow Stevens, Walter Miller, Ada Ince…; 12–episode sci–fi serial about an electrical engineer and a mad scientist who attempt to take down a corrupt politician with a device…
Invisible Man, The (1933): Dir. James Whale
Feat. Claude Rains; Engrossing fantasy about a scientist who becomes invisible, thus leaving ego unchecked to gain advantage and wreak havoc. A memorable,…
Woman in the Moon (Frau im Mond) (1929): Dir. Fritz Lang
Feat. Willy Fritsch, Fritz Rasp, Gerda Maurus…; Silent–era sci–fi from director Fritz Lang. Based on the 1928 novel "The Rocket to the Moon" by his collaborator (and wife at the time)…
Metropolis (1926): Dir. Fritz Lang
Feat. Alfred Abel, Gustav Frohlich, Rudolf Klein-Rogge…; Fritz Lang's masterpiece is a magnificent marriage of pure cinema innovation and startlingly ambitious set design. Set around the year 2000, a…
Metropolis (1984 Version) (1926): Dir. Fritz Lang; Fritz Lang's silent masterpiece retains its magnificence in spite of the slashed running time and the rock bombast of Georgio Moroder's contemporary…
Aelita: Queen of Mars (1924): Dir. Yakov Protazanov
Feat. Nikolai Tseretelli, Valentina Kuindzhi; Russian silent science–fiction film based on Alexei Tolstoy's novel about a young man in post–war Soviet Union given the chance to travel…
All Monsters Attack: A splendid assembling of over fifty sci–fi movie trailers, with an eye for the monstrous, malign and massive. See the destruction meted out by…
Dalekmania: Feat. Peter Cushing; Cast members and cultists take a nostalgic peek at the making of the Dr. Who feature films.
Earth 2 (TV Series): Feat. Clancy Brown, Debrah Farentino, Joey Zimmerman; Sci–fi adventure series following an interplanetary expeditionary group called the Eden Project, whose mission is to find an earth–like…
Stingray - The Incredible Voyage: Dir. Gerry Anderson; Gerry Anderson's beloved Troy Tempest and W.A.S.P. battle the evil Lord Titan for sub–terranean supremacy in feature–length adventure.
Tokyo Babylon: Four parts two tapes
Ufos Are Real!: Close encounters of all kinds and conspiracy cover–ups are revealed in this tabloid–style doco which is determined to have you believe!…

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