For Marshal O'Neil (Sean Connery), the Jupiter moon Io is just another dingy mining town on the final frontier. When his wife leaves him and takes their son with them, it merely confirms that though he's traveled millions of miles, his life is going nowhere. Then he notices that miners are dying in strangely psychotic ways -- walking in space ...
David Lynch wades through dark waters in his adaptation of Frank Herbert's cult science fiction novel. In condensing Herbert's rambling and complex book by eliminating characters and compacting events, Lynch succeeds in rendering the story incomprehensible to those unfamiliar with the novel and making the film look like a sketchy greatest hits ...
Also known as Planet of Horrors, this film follows a group of astronauts as they travel into space to retrieve the survivors of a spaceship crash. When they arrive on the planet, the crew runs into some hostile aliens who attempt to gorily wipe them out. ~ Iotis Erlewine, All Movie Guide
Heroic earthling Flash Gordon saves the world from the nefarious Ming the Merciless in this lavish, intentionally campy adaptation of the famous sci-fi comic strip. The story is as basic as space operas get: Ming (Max von Sydow) has developed a plan to destroy the Earth, and Flash (Sam J. Jones) and his attractive companion, Dale Arden (Melody ...
In 1936, Universal Pictures created a sensation with Flash Gordon, a 13-part adventure serial based on the popular comic strip of the day about a dare-devil do-gooder in outer space. Flash Gordon: Rocketship is a condensed version of that original serial, compressing the original twelve episodes into an efficient 97 minute feature. Flash Gordon ...
In 1936, Flash Gordon was among the most popular comic strip characters in America when Universal Pictures first brought his planet-hopping exploits to the big screen in the 13-episode serial Flash Gordon, one of the most lavishly produced and wildly popular "chapter-plays" of its day. Flash Gordon's Space Soldiers, the title of the original ...
You wouldn't know it from the title, but Deadly Ray From Mars is a feature-length abridgement of the 15-episode serial Flash Gordon's Trip to Mars. Space traveller Flash Gordon (Buster Crabbe), his lady love Dale Arden (Jean Rogers), and scientific genius Dr. Zarkov (Frank Shannon), blast off for Mars, where a mysterious force is sucking the ...
The United States space program reports that its missing, overdue manned Mars probe has returned to Earth orbit, but that they haven't been able to make radio contact with it. When it is brought down by remote control, they find three of the four crewmembers aboard: one of them, Professor Gettell (Les Tremayne), is dead; another, mission commander ...
This first installment in the original Mobile Suit Gundam movie trilogy was created by editing together episodes from the series. The three movies create a compressed version of the Mobile Suit Gundam TV series. This first film chronicles the beginning of the One Year War between the Earth Alliance and Principality of Zeon and the young boy, Amuro ...
George Lucas draws the Star Wars film series to a close with this dark sci-fi adventure which sets the stage for the events of the first film and brings the saga full circle. After a fierce battle in which Obi-Wan (Ewan McGregor) and Anakin (Hayden Christensen) join Republic forces to help free Chancellor Palpatine (Ian McDiarmid) from the evil ...
This second installment in the original Mobile Suit Gundam movie trilogy was created by editing together episodes from the series. The three movies create a compressed version of the Mobile Suit Gundam TV series. In this film, the One Year War is underway between the Earth Alliance and the Principality of Zeon, and young Amuro Ray is the pilot of ...
In this low-budget sci-fi adventure, a nerdy college student is shocked to discover that he has been chosen to save the Earth from intergalactic invaders. Joe E. Talbott learns of his mission from the mysterious beauty who suddenly appears in his dorm late one night. Upon hearing her story, he agrees to help. Accompanied by the girl, and an alien ...
The first feature-length motion picture to use computer-generated imagery to create not only effects, props, and environments but also the human cast members themselves, this lavish science-fiction adventure follows closely on the heels of another video game-based film, Tomb Raider (2001). Ming-Na provides the voice of Dr. Aki Ross, a female ...
This anime compilation movie takes the six episode Gunbuster OVA series and reedits the material into a 95 minute theatrical movie. It focuses on Noriko Takaya, a young pilot who lost her father to the planet's deadly conflict with the space monsters. Now she's determined to rise to the top of the Machine Weapon squadron, traveling through distant ...
This sci-fi adventure is a fine example of the extraordinary artistry of Japanese animation. The story is also first rate as it tells the story of an overpopulated 21st-century Earth that begins sending settlers to Venus, which has just been hit by an ice asteroid that has made the planet inhabitable. Unfortunately those they send are the very ...
After a devastating nuclear attack, the people of Earth have begun living in underground cities in order to escape radiation poisoning. The radiation is seeping deeper into the planet, however, and will soon contaminate the cities if it isn't stopped. Now the battleship Yamato has only one year to make a 148,000-light-year trip to the planet ...
This third and final installment in the original Mobile Suit Gundam movie trilogy was created by editing together episodes from the series. The three movies create a compressed version of the Mobile Suit Gundam TV series. In this film, the One Year War between the Earth Alliance and the Principality of Zeon draws to a close. ~ Cammila Albertson, ...
All-American space hero Flash Gordon (played by Larry "Buster" Crabbe) once again does battle with the devious Ming the Merciless (Charles B. Middleton) in this vintage sci-fi adventure. Ming has, as usual, set his sights on conquering the Earth, and has designed a new weapon with this in mind -- a special metallic substance that will burst into ...
David Lynch wades through dark waters in his adaptation of Frank Herbert's cult science fiction novel. In condensing Herbert's rambling and complex book by eliminating characters and compacting events, Lynch succeeds in rendering the story incomprehensible to those unfamiliar with the novel and making the film look like a sketchy greatest hits ...
The second entry in George Lucas' Star Wars trilogy finds Luke Skywalker (Mark Hamill), the green-as-grass hero from the first film, now a seasoned space warrior. Luke's Star Wars cohorts Han Solo (Harrison Ford) and Princess Leia (Carrie Fisher) are likewise more experienced in the ways and means of battling the insidious Empire, as represented ...
Trailer-park teenager Lance Guest regularly escapes from his humdrum existence by playing the video game Starfighter . His expertise at this recreational endeavor attracts the attention of affable stranger Robert Preston. Before he knows what's happening, Guest is whisked by Preston into the outer reaches of the galaxy! It turns out that the ...
Katsuhiro Otomo garnered worldwide attention in 1988 for his cyberpunk classic Akira, featuring a fully realized dystopian future that rivaled Blade Runner. In this animated triptych, all written by Otomo, he once again gazes darkly into the future. The first segment, called "Magnetic Rose" and directed by Koji Morimoto, is set in the year 2092 ...
In Paul Verhoeven's wild sci-fi action movie Total Recall, Arnold Schwarzenegger plays a 21st-century construction worker who discovers that his entire memory of the past derives from a memory chip implanted in his brain. Schwarzenegger learns that he's actually a secret agent who had become a threat to the government, so those in power planted ...
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