Sci-Fi

  • Gordon Flemyng – Dr. Who and the Daleks (1965)

    Gordon Flemyng1961-1970AdventureSci-FiUnited Kingdom

    Accidentally thrown together, Dr. Who (Peter Cushing), his granddaughters, and their friend Ian cross the universe in Who’s new invention, the space and time machine known as “Tardis”. When they land on the planet Skaro, the travellers meet the kind and placid Thals, who live in fear of the dreaded Daleks. Somehow, Dr. Who and his party must find a way to help the Thals overcome the deadly mutants who live inside impenetrable metal casings.

    Dr. Who and the Daleks, based on TV: The Daleks, was the first theatrical film based on Doctor Who. It stars Peter Cushing as a human scientist named “Dr. Who” who invents Tardis and takes his companions on a journey to the planet Skaro, where they help the peace-loving Thals battle the evil Daleks.Read More »

  • Gordon Flemyng – Dr. Who and the Daleks (1965)

    1961-1970AdventureGordon FlemyngSci-FiUnited Kingdom

    Accidentally thrown together, Dr. Who (Peter Cushing), his granddaughters, and their friend Ian cross the universe in Who’s new invention, the space and time machine known as “Tardis”. When they land on the planet Skaro, the travellers meet the kind and placid Thals, who live in fear of the dreaded Daleks. Somehow, Dr. Who and his party must find a way to help the Thals overcome the deadly mutants who live inside impenetrable metal casings.Read More »

  • Carl Joseph Papa – Iti mapukpukaw AKA The Missing (2023)

    2021-2030AnimationCarl Joseph PapaPhilippinesSci-Fi
    Iti mapukpukaw (2023)
    Iti mapukpukaw (2023)

    When an alien comes back to take him, a mouthless young man’s life twists and turns as his memories untangle.Read More »

  • Georgiy Daneliya – Kin-dza-dza! (1986)

    Georgiy Daneliya1981-1990ComedySci-FiUSSR
    Kin dza dza! (1986)
    Kin dza dza! (1986)

    Imagine Andrei Tarkovsky circa SOLARIS directing Douglas Adams’ The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy and you’ll come close to the existential weirdness of the wonderfully loopy Soviet-era sci-fi comedy KIN-DZA-DZA!Two average Muscovites – a plainspoken construction foreman (Stanislav Lyubshin) and a Georgian violin student (Levan Gabriadze) – encounter an odd homeless man on the street who asks, “Tell me the number of your planet in the Tentura?”In a flash, they’re teleported across the universe to the planet Pluke in the Kin-Dza-Dza galaxy – a Tatooine-like desert world whose inhabitants are hilariously noncommunicative (their main words are “ku” for good and “kyu” for very bad) and where common wooden matches are tremendously valuable. A deadpan, absurdist mixture of Kurt Vonnegut, Monty Python, Samuel Beckett and Jodorowsky’s never-made Dune where alien cultures are even more haphazard and WTF? than our own, the film is also a savage satire of bureaucratic idiocy and dysfunction no matter what political system you’re living under – or what planet you’re living on.Read More »

  • Michael Anderson – Millennium (1989)

    Michael Anderson1981-1990Sci-FiThrillerUSA
    Millennium (1989)
    Millennium (1989)

    Whilst investigating a plane crash, a government official meets a strange woman and they spend the night together, but the next day the woman vanishes. Her identity is entwined with the strange object found at the crash site, which she returns for and then vanishes in a bright light.Read More »

  • Lee Sholem – Tobor the Great (1954)

    1951-1960Lee SholemSci-FiUSA
    Tobor the Great (1954)
    Tobor the Great (1954)

    As projected here, a thinly-disguised NASA, working with nuclear rockets, is ready for manned flights in the mid-fifties…but Dr. Ralph Harrison doesn’t think so, and resigns in protest. Colleague Prof. Nordstrom promptly enlists his aid in developing an alternative robot Spaceman! Naturally, foreign spies are keenly interested… Uses documentary footage of early space research.Read More »

  • Jun Fukuda – Densô ningen AKA The Secret of the Telegian (1960)

    1951-1960HorrorJapanJun FukudaSci-Fi
    Densô ningen (1960)
    Densô ningen (1960)

    PLOT: Men are being murdered by a psycho called “The Telegian,” who uses a matter-transmitting device to locate his victims.Read More »

  • Kazui Nihonmatsu – Uchû daikaijû Girara AKA The X from Outer Space (1967)

    Kazui Nihonmatsu1961-1970HorrorJapanSci-Fi
    Uchû daikaijû Girara (1967)
    Uchû daikaijû Girara (1967)

    The spaceship AAB-Gamma is dispatched from FAFC headquarters in Japan to make a landing on the planet Mars and investigate reports of UFOs in the area. As they near the red planet, they encounter a mysterious UFO that coats the ship’s hull with unusual spores. Taking one of the specimens back to earth, it soon develops and grows into a giant chicken-lizard-alien monster that tramples Japan.Read More »

  • Geoff Murphy – Freejack (1992)

    Geoff Murphy1991-2000ActionSci-FiUSA
    Freejack (1992)
    Freejack (1992)

    Geoff Murphy directed this time-travel chase movie. Emilio Estevez stars as Alex Furlong, a racecar driver from 1991, who is just about to experience a deadly crash in his Formula Atlantic. But at the last moment Alex finds himself transported to the streets of New York in 2009. He is saved from certain death and zapped into the future by 21st-century bounty hunter Vacendak (Mick Jagger), who wants to take over Alex’s body. Alex escapes Vacendak’s clutches and decides to look up an old girlfriend. When he locates Julie (Rene Russo), he enlists her support to help him from being captured by Vacendak. Much to Alex’s surprise, he discovers that Julie now works as a top executive for a giant corporation presided over by McCandless (Anthony Hopkins). Julie, separated from Alex for almost twenty years, must decide whether to renew their relationship. But there is not much time for thought by either party, since Vacendak is still coming after Alex. – allmovieRead More »

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