Films in the ‘Sci-Fi’ Category


Futurama, Vol. 4

The creativity keeps on flowing in Season Four, the final original season. Bender takes the world of daytime soaps by storm; most of the original Star Trek bridge crew guest star in episode 11; Bender has a sex change operation; the Professor invents a gateway to a parallel universe; Amy’s boyfriend gets pregnant; Leela finally [...]

Futurama, Vol. 3

Season Three has everything a good series should: Lucy Liu; a planet inhabited by Amazons; IQ boosting parasites; a murderous robot Santa; time travel to 1947 Roswell, New Mexico; and a conversation with God. Guest stars include Lucy Liu, Bea Arthur, Coolio, Beck, and Jan Hooks. 22 episodes in all.
GirlsNite Review by Jennifer Brooks
Rating: [...]

Futurama, Vol. 2

Season Two guest stars include Nichelle Nichols (Star Trek’s Lieutenant Uhura), Vice President Al Gore, Stephen Hawking, Pamela Anderson, Claudia Schiffer, Parker Posey, Sarah Silverman, and Conan O’Brien. Join in the fun as the Planet Express crew discovers the lost, mythical city of Atlanta; Bender joins the robot Mafia; Leela faces off with her misogynist [...]

Futurama, Vol. 1

The first season of Futurama finds its space-legs quickly, so get into the action from the beginning. Travel 1000 years into the future with Fry in Space Pilot, see the Isaac Asimov homage I Roomate, discover the William Shatneresque Zapp Brannigan in Love’s Labours Lost in Space, wonder at the future’s take on Willy Wonka’s [...]

Futurama

The original, brilliant, four seasons of Futurama include 72 episodes of 31st century fun, liberally laced with political and social commentary a la Matt Groening. Features one of the strongest women on TV, Leela, a cyclops alien space ship captain, and one of the cutest, klutzy Amy Wong of the Mars Wongs. Fry (cryogenically frozen [...]

Alien (The Director’s Cut)

For several generations of teen girls, Ellen Ripley was the ultimate shero. Stuck in space with a ravenous monster and nothing but her wits, Ripley single-handedly survives the carnage, defeats the relentless terror and heads for home. Or does she? This suspenseful classic sci-fi horror movie is one of the American Film Institute’s 100 Best Films of All Time. Scary good!

Terminator 2 – Judgment Day

An incredibly buff Linda Hamilton runs around with Ahnold-bot blowing up stuff and and saving the world yet again in this fast-paced, satisfying classic sci-fi action/adventure. This is one of those rare sequels that actually outdoes the original, with Robert Patrick inhabiting the most menacing, cold-blooded nemesis in cinema history, the implacable T-1000 assassin cyborg.

Resident Evil – Apocalypse

2002\’s popular video-game-derived hit Resident Evil didn\’t inspire confidence in a sequel, but Resident Evil: Apocalypse defies odds and surpasses expectations. It\’s a bigger, better, action-packed

Painkiller Jane

Kristanna Loken of Terminator 3: Rise Of The Machines and Bloodrayne stars as Jane Vasco, a tough-yet-sexy DEA agent recruited by a covert government unit to hunt superhuman neurological aberrations k

Resident Evil

Marilyn Manson worked on the soundtrack, so it\’s no surprise that Resident Evil is best enjoyed by headbangers, goth guys, and PlayStation junkies. Like the interactive game it\’s based on, this horr