Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes (2024)

Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes (2024)

[5] After wrapping up a terrific trilogy of Planet of the Apes films (2011-2017), Fox and Disney saw fit to give us another film that takes place generations later. I went into this latest film with great skepticism, and at first I…
John Carter (2012)

John Carter (2012)

[5] Director Andrew Stanton (WALL-E, Finding Nemo) makes the leap from animation to live-action with this overly-ambitious adaptation of Edgar Rice Burroughs' story A Princess of Mars. Taylor Kitsch (TV's Friday Night Lights) stars as the title character, a world-weary Confederate army…
Starman (1984)

Starman (1984)

[7] Director John Carpenter (Halloween, The Thing) takes a break from the horror genre for this sensitive sci-fi romance starring Jeff Bridges and Karen Allen. Bridges plays an alien who takes the form of Allen's deceased husband. After the initial shock of…
Tron: Legacy (2010)

Tron: Legacy (2010)

[7] Twenty-eight years after the original Tron was released, Jeff Bridges returns as Kevin Flynn, a computer whiz who basically invented cyberspace -- a world within microchips where people are called 'programs' and 'users' are akin to gods. He's been trapped in…
RoboCop 2 (1990)

RoboCop 2 (1990)

[7] Directed by Irvin Kershner (The Empire Strikes Back) and written by comic book legend Frank Miller, you'd think that RoboCop 2 would be vastly better and more interesting than it is. But for just another inferior sequel, it's not half bad.…
Ex Machina (2015)

Ex Machina (2015)

[8] Writer/director Alex Garland (Annihilation, Men) delivers a thoughtful, character-driven psychological thriller with sci-fi overtones in Ex Machina. Domhnall Gleeson plays a computer programmer summoned to a remote research facility where an eccentric entrepreneur (Oscar Isaac) has created a highly advanced artificial…
The War of the Worlds (1953)

The War of the Worlds (1953)

[8] The War of the Worlds, based on H.G. Wells classic sci-fi novel, hits the ground running with Martians invading the world! We experience the invasion through an ensemble of characters in a quaint California community where one of the Martian 'war…
Superman (2025)

Superman (2025)

[7] Writer/director James Gunn's Superman re-boot is intended to start a whole new era at DC Films, wiping clean the dark, dreary, and financially unrewarding slate of movies started by director Zack Snyder with 2013's Man of Steel. Gunn had a mandate…
28 Years Later (2025)

28 Years Later (2025)

[8] On a small island untouched by the zombie plague started in 28 Days Later, a father (Aaron Taylor-Johnson) decides to journey to the infected mainland to teach his young son, Spike (Alfie Williams), how to kill zombies. They are forced into…
Jurassic World: Dominion (2022)

Jurassic World: Dominion (2022)

[5] Sooner or later all franchises grow stale. Jurassic World: Dominion, the sixth film in the franchise, brings back director and cowriter Colin Trevorrow (Jurassic World) and unites the cast of the original Jurassic Park with the new stars of Jurassic World.…