Frankenstein (2025)

Frankenstein (2025)

[7] Director Guillermo del Toro (The Shape of Water, Pan's Labyrinth) puts his cinematic stamp on Mary Shelley's formative sci-fi novel, casting Oscar Isaac (Dune: Part One, Annihilation) as the obsessed Victor Frankenstein who brings an assembly of dead body…
Predator: Badlands (2025)

Predator: Badlands (2025)

[7] Director Dan Trachtenberg (10 Cloverfield Lane, Prey) leads the Predator franchise in a bold new, character-driven direction with Predator: Badlands. Dimitrius Schuster-Koloamatangi stars (under digital makeup) as Dek, the film's title hunter, a runt whose ruthless father tries to…
Moonraker (1979)

Moonraker (1979)

[5] Heavily influenced by the success of Star Wars a few years prior, James Bond (Roger Moore) blasts into outer space to foil a bad guy's scheme to eradicate all human life on Earth. While Moonraker made a lot of…
Bugonia (2025)

Bugonia (2025)

[6] Two cousins (Jesse Plemons and Aidan Delbis) kidnap a famous pharmaceutical CEO (Emma Stone) because they believe she is an alien intent on harming humankind. Director Yorgos Lanthimos (Dogtooth, The Favourite) makes the deranged cousins sympathetic and the CEO…
A Quiet Place Part II (2020)

A Quiet Place Part II (2020)

[6] Director/co-writer/actor John Krasinski serves up another helping of his intimate and suspenseful alien apocalypse story. The sequel begins with a flashback sequence of the day the aliens came to earth and began decimating the world's population. Krasinski appears in…
Outland (1981)

Outland (1981)

[4] Sean Connery stars in this middling conspiracy thriller set on one of Jupiter's moons. Connery plays the new head policeman at a titanium mining facility where some of the workers have begun losing their minds and endangering lives. When…
The Omega Man (1971)

The Omega Man (1971)

[7] Charlton Heston stars as the last uninfected man on Earth in the second of three adaptations of Richard Matheson's novel I Am Legend. Vincent Price previously starred in 1964's The Last Man on Earth, and Will Smith would later…
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)

2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)

[8] Stanley Kubrick advanced the art of special effects and brought the science-fiction genre out of low-budget purgatory with 2001: A Space Odyssey. With a script co-written by Arthur C. Clarke, based on Clarke's short story "The Sentinel", 2001 opens…
The Invisible Man’s Revenge (1944)

The Invisible Man’s Revenge (1944)

[3] Universal's Invisible Man franchise takes its steepest drop in entertainment value with the fourth film in the series, The Invisible Man's Revenge. Jon Hall, who also starred in The Invisible Agent, plays a different character with no connection to…
Dark City (1998)

Dark City (1998)

[7] [This review is of the 2008 Director's Cut.] Director Alex Proyas follows up his cult sensation The Crow with this dark, dystopian sci-fi flick about an amnesiac man (Rufus Sewell) who discovers a sinister force is manipulating him and…