A man struggles with memories of his past, including a wife he cannot remember, in a nightmarish world with no sun and run by beings with telekinetic powers who seek the souls of humans.
The opening scene of 'Saving Private Ryan' has to be one of the greatest in cinematic history. Up there with that of 'Small Soldiers'.
The man who brought you dramatically underappreciated national savior Jack Bauer. Just like his father Donald, Kiefer Sutherland's stoic acting style lends itself perfectly to the action genre.
These movies would be worth watching even if the speakers on your TV were busted. But with films like 'Interstellar', 'Life of Pi', and 'Cloud Atlas', don't think for a moment they depend on style over substance.
For many, the first movie that springs to mind is 'Fight Club', but other great mindfucks in this collection include 'Shutter Island', 'Donnie Darko', and - going back - 'El Topo'. Enjoy the 10 minutes of headscratching after the credits roll!
Here it is: a comprehensive list of the best sci-fi films from 1970-2000, including animated gem 'The Hidden Giant', surreal dystopian thriller 'Dark City', and the undisputed 80s champ 'Terminator'. Watch them all to achieve pure geekdom!
After the fall of fascism and the growth of communism, Hollywood was inundated with speculative sci-fi imagining how the future might look if 'The Man' got his way. Having passed many of the years these films were set in (e.g. 1984), all we can say is : 'Thank God it's not THAT bad!'
A collection of flicks featuring dinosaurs, killer robots, and Will Smith as a wise-cracking space-cop. You can't really ask for much more with this list of the very best science-fiction from the 1990s.
Asimov's first law of robotics states a robot may not injure a human being. Well, it looks like some of the tech on this list viewed this as more as a suggestion. Oh well, we had it coming.
Gilliam, Lynch, and Cronenburg collide in this list of dystopian nightmares that lean on Kafka's aesthetic; difficult to sum it up without resorting to the circular adjective 'Kafkaesque', but you'll know it when you see it!
