Genre: Science Fiction
Science fiction asks what if and follows the answer — technology, the future, and the unknown, used to test what it means to be human under new conditions.
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New Rose Hotel (1998)
1998 Abel Ferrara sci-fi with Christopher Walken and Willem Dafoe as corporate spies. Adapts William Gibson cyberpunk story. -
Geostorm (2017)
2017 Dean Devlin disaster film with Gerard Butler battling weather-controlling satellites that go rogue. Plot from a fortune cookie. -
Stalker (1979)
Tarkovsky's 1979 Soviet SF film. A guide leads two men into the Zone. Two and a half slow hours that justify every minute. One of the great philosophical films. -
Metropolis (1927)
Fritz Lang's 1927 German silent SF epic. The film every dystopian city movie has copied. Restored 2010 cut is the version to watch. -
A Trip to the Moon (1902)
Méliès's 1902 14-minute fantasy short. The first proper science fiction film. The shot with the rocket in the moon's eye is the most reproduced image in early cinema. -
Fortress (1992)
Gordon's 1992 SF prison action film. Christopher Lambert in an underground prison run by a corporate AI. B-movie premise, A-movie commitment from Gordon. -
Dune (1984)
David Lynch's 1984 Dune. The maligned one. Seen four times, dated but good for its time. Visuals are still strange in ways no modern adaptation has matched. -
Her (2013)
Spike Jonze's 2013 near-future drama. Joaquin Phoenix and Scarlett Johansson as voice. Won Best Original Screenplay. One of the strongest American films of 2010s. -
War of the Worlds (1953 & 2005)
Two War of the Worlds adaptations: Byron Haskin 1953 and Steven Spielberg 2005. Both reflect their specific production-moment American conditions. -
Dredd (2012)
Dredd is the rare comic book adaptation that fully understood its source material. Pete Travis directed. Alex Garland wrote, between his collaborations...