Event Horizon (1997)
In astronomy, an “event horizon” is the point where light falls victim to the pull of a black hole – the point of no return. Black holes have long been theorized to be portals...
Category: Science Fiction
Armageddon (1998)
The plot: An asteroid the size of Texas is hurtling towards Earth, which will surely result in the termination of all life on the planet. The high-ups in NASA devise a plan to split...
The Postman (1997)
Clocking in at about three hours, comes another attempt by director Costner at an epic. After the much acclaimed success of DANCES WITH WOLVES, Costner takes the helm once again with an inspiring and...
Gattaca (1997)
Sometime in the near future, as the opening credits state, human beings are genetically produced so that they have the best traits possible. It is expected that these “valid” humans succeed and become mental...
Phantoms (1998)
Two sisters travel to a small town in Colorado only to find that the inhabitants have all died mysterious and grisly deaths, save for the sheriff Affleck and a pair of deputies who are trying...
The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997)
Unlike author Michael Crichton’s “Jurassic Park” novel, the 1993 Universal Pictures film adaptation was built with sequels in mind. Whereas the novel wiped out the dinosaurs in the end, Spielberg kept them alive, as...
Rollerball (1975)
In the future, corporations have taken over the world, and together they devise a game that is meant to teach the masses the values they want, namely the team and corporation is more important...
The Fifth Element (1997)
A 23rd Century New York cabbie (Willis) has an unexpected passenger in the form of Leeloo (Jovovich), a woman who is the “supreme being” sent to save the universe from death first needing the four...
Star Trek: First Contact (1996)
The crew of the Enterprise travel into the past to the year 2063 in an attempt to save Earth from being conquered by the Borgs, a race of cyborg-like beings that take the traits...
Starman (1984)
In the late 1970s, Columbia Pictures had a multipicture development deal with actor/producer Michael Douglas. In 1980, Douglas bought the script to a sci-fo concept called Starman from Bruce A. Evans and Raynold Gideon and...