Sci-Fi

Laurence Olivier once observed that he "learned more about acting from watching [Spencer] Tracy than in any other way." Undertaking the dual title role in Robert Louis Stevenson's Victorian science-fiction thriller, Tracy fulfilled that compliment by...

The year was 1944. Overseas, the war raged. Back home, a war-torn population suffered the loss of loved ones. Along came a Guy Named Joe, a fanciful, heart-warming tale based on the legend that pilots never die but return to guide fledgling airmen and...

What awaits us in the vast reaches of space? The imaginations of moviemakers are always eager to take us there - as in these two nifty '50s sci-fi voyages. Hugh Marlowe, Rod Taylor and other Mars-mission astronauts skid on a time warp into a future Earth...

On a remote island in the South Pacific, Dr. Moreau has used the key of science to unlock the gates of hell. Val Kilmer (Heat, Batman Forever, The Ghost and the Darkness), David Thewlis (the Harry Potter films), Fairuza Balk (The Craft) and Academy...

In It, a London museum's eerie Golem statue is awake and ready to do it's master's bidding. Roddy McDowall (Planet of the Apes) portrays a museum assistant - and a mama's boy living with dear ol' mum's corpse - who wills the monster to destroy his rivals...

It's giant man-eating bugs battling humans to the death again... and the future of civilization hangs in the balance! When earthquakes release a swarm of giant scorpions from a subterranean cavern in Mexico, the oversized arachnids go on a voracious...

An elderly Chinese man routs evil in a Western frontier town by setting up his circus for the townspeople. The various performers affect each of the circus' visitors in a different way, and in the end the unscrupulous citizen who dominates the town...

One-sixth the gravity. 100% of the fun. That's the way things are on the moon when Eddie Murphy headlines The Adventures of Pluto Nash. Murphy plays the title role in a high-flying action comedy directed by Ron Underwood (Tremors, City Slickers). The...

Sutter Cane (Jurgen Prochnow, The Seventh Sign) is the best-selling author whose newest novel is literally driving readers insane. When he inexplicably vanishes, his publisher (Academy Award winner Charlton Heston*) sends special investigator John Trent...

Imagine a machine that downloads one person's thoughts and sensations to another individual. Any person. Any experience. Now imagine how that breakthrough technology might be corrupted in the wrong hands. Christopher Walken, Natalie Wood (in her final...

After Raquel Welch conquered the screen in One Million Years B.C., Hammer Studios followed up with When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth, written and directed by Val Guest (The Quatermass Xperiment) and based on a story by J.G. Ballard (Crash). Victoria Vetri...

The discovery of a midget horse thought to be of a species fifty million years old prompts members of a Wild West show to venture into Mexico's Forbidden Valley in search of world-wide fame and untold wealth. But they are met by prehistoric monsters...