Category: Science Fiction

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1990s / Comedy / Science Fiction

Mars Attacks! (1996)

Tim Burton (Batman Returns, Edward Scissorhands) takes on comic science fiction in Mars Attacks!, a big-screen narrative version of the cult Topps trading card series from the early 1960s, in which Martian in flying saucers are...

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1980s / Action / Adventure / Horror / Science Fiction / War

Predator (1987)

A leaner-than-customary Arnold Schwarzenegger stars as Major “Dutch” Schaeffer, who, along with his crew of elite special ops commandos, is sent to the jungle of a hostile Latin American country on a covert hostage...

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2010s / Comedy / Science Fiction

The World’s End (2013)

Simon Pegg (Star Trek Into Darkness, Mission Impossible 4) stars as Gary King, the hot punker whose peak of popularity came from his high school days, after which his life just could never get on...

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2010s / Action / Science Fiction / Superhero / Thriller

The Wolverine (2013)

The Wolverine is the second attempt at a spinoff Wolverine adventure, and while this is better than the last try, X-Men Origins: Wolverine, it does fall short of the pleasures of seeing Logan (Jackman) as part of...

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2010s / Action / Science Fiction

Pacific Rim (2013)

Pacific Rim is Guillermo del Toro’s (Hellboy 2, Pan’s Labyrinth) homage to the old Japanese films featuring Kaiju (literal translation: “strange beast”, or the Americanized, “giant monster”), which were sci-fi flicks about grotesque, building-sized creatures who...

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2010s / Action / Science Fiction / Superhero / Thriller

Man of Steel (2013)

Director Zack Snyder (Sucker Punch, Watchmen), Dark Knight trilogy producer Christopher Nolan and screenwriter David S. Goyer (Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance, Jumper) return Superman on the big screen, and that’s not an easy task to do for a...

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2010s / Action / Horror / Science Fiction / Thriller

The Purge (2013)

I wish there were a day every year that we, the audience, could just purge all of the memories of films like this. The premise: In the near future, the United States’ government has...

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2010s / Adventure / Science Fiction

After Earth (2013)

M. Night Shyamalan’s downward spiral with critics seemingly started with The Village, only for him to respond by making himself the hero and a film critic a heavy in his next film, Lady in the Water,...

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2010s / Action / Science Fiction

Star Trek Into Darkness (2013)

Star Trek Into Darkness is director J.J. Abrams’s (Super 8, Mission Impossible III) follow-up to his commercially and critically acclaimed reboot of the iconic science fiction series, Star Trek, and should largely please fans of the more...

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2010s / Action / Science Fiction / Superhero

Iron Man 3 (2013)

Tony Stark returns in this post-The Avengers outing, this time with Jon Favreau stepping down as director, with Shane Black, who directed Downey to great critical success in Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, stepping in to take...