Science Fiction
Science fiction as a genre of film making has been an element of the cinema experience since the earliest days of the motion picture industry. These films have explored a great range of unique topics, including many that cannot be readily presented in other genre. Science fiction films have been used to explore sensitive social and political issues, while often providing an entertaining story for the more casual viewer. Today, science fiction films are in the forefront of new special effects technology, and the audience has become accustomed to displays of realistic aliens, space battles, energy weapons, faster than light travel, and distant worlds.
This genre has produced many memorable films, as well as a number that can be considered mediocre or even among the worst examples of film production. It took many decades, and the efforts of talented teams of film producers, for the science fiction film genre to be taken seriously as an art form by many critics. The very best of these films may be scrolled below, or for Sci-Fi TV Series, select the green 'Televison Shows' heading on left, and then the 'TV Sci-Fi' option.
Fantastic Four (2005)
5.7/10
Director: Tim Story
Starring: Ioan Gruffudd, Jessica Alba, Chris Evans, Michael Chiklis, Julian McMahon
Adapted from the long-running Marvel comic; the story of four scientists who receive a massive dose of gamma rays while working in space, and are mira... Read more
Fantastic Four ( Blu-ray ) (2005)
5.7/10
Director: Tim Story
Starring: Ioan Gruffudd, Jessica Alba, Chris Evans, Michael Chiklis, Julian McMahon
Adapted from the long-running Marvel comic; the story of four scientists who receive a massive dose of gamma rays while working in space, and are mira... Read more
Fantastic Four (Blu-ray) (2015)
5.6/10
Director: Josh Trank
Starring: Miles Teller, Michael B Jordan, Kate Mara, Jamie Bell, Toby Kebbell, Reg E Cathe...
As a brilliant teen in 2007, Reed Richards (Miles Teller) works to perfect a teleportation device that could revolutionize science, finding help from... Read more
Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer (2007)
5.7/10
Director: Tim Story
Starring: Ioan Gruffudd, Jessica Alba, Chris Evans, Michael Chiklis, Julian McMahon, Kerry...
The effects-laden sequel to the 2005 film sees our heroic foursome battling an interstellar baddie whose unannounced arrival flattens a large chunk of... Read more
Fantastic Planet (1973)
7.8/10
Director: Rene Laloux
Starring: Oms, Draags
A winner at the Cannes Film Festival 1973, 'Fantastic Planet' is a full length animated fantasy set on the planet of the Draags in a far-off solar sys... Read more
Fantastic Voyage (1966)
6.8/10
Director: Richard Fleischer
Starring: Stephen Boyd, Raquel Welch, Edmond O'Brien, Donald Pleasence
Tremendously entertaining story of medical team reduced to microscopic size, then injected inside human body. Marvellous special effects and set des... Read more
Farscape: Season 1 (1999)
8.3/10
Director: Various
Starring: Ben Browder, Anthony Simcoe, Claudia Black, Virginia Hey
Following in the footsteps of 'Babylon 5' and the continued 'Star Trek' series, "Farscape" burst on to TV screens with a renewed vitality for the scie... Read more
Farscape: Season 2 (2000)
8.3/10
Director: Various
Starring: Ben Browder, Claudia Black, Virginia Hey, Anthony Simcoe
Season two of the refreshingly human (in an alien sort of way) show, sees the rebel group pitted against a new foe and still threatened by the 'Peacek... Read more
Farscape: Season 4 (2002)
8.3/10
Director: Various
Starring: Ben Browder, Claudia Black, Anthony Simcoe, Virginia Hey
The final full season of "Farscape" (followed by mini-series "Peacekeeper Wars" in America) sees Crichton learning more about the worm-hole principles... Read more
Fear the Walking Dead: Season 2 (2016)
6.6/10
Starring: Kim Dickens, Ruben Blades, Cliff Curtis, Mercedes Mason, Frank Dillane
Set in the same universe as The Walking Dead, Fear The Walking Dead follows a blended family during the early days of the undead apocalypse. After... Read more