Movie Listing: Science Fiction - All

Alien

Tagline:

In space, no one can hear you scream

Release Date: Friday, May 25, 1979

On the way home from a mission for the Company, the Nostromo's crew is woken up from hibernation by the ship's Mother computer to answer a distress signal from a nearby planet. Capt. Dallas' (Tom Skerritt) rescue team discovers a bizarre pod field, but things get even stranger when a face-hugging creature bursts out of a pod and attaches itself to Kane (John Hurt). Over the objections of Ripley (Sigourney Weaver), science officer Ash (Ian Holm) lets Kane back on the ship.

Rating: Rated R

AVATAR

Tagline:

"An All New World Awaits"

Release Date: Thursday, December 10, 2009

When his twin brother is killed in a robbery, a paraplegic Marine decides to take his place on a mission to the distant world of Pandora. There he learns of greedy a corporation's intentions of driving off the native humanoid Na'vi in order to mine for the precious material scattered throughout their rich woodland. In exchange for the spinal surgery that will fix his legs, Jake (Worthinton) gathers intelligence for the cooperating military unit spearheaded by gung-ho Colonel Quaritch, while simultaneously attempting to infiltrate the Na'vi people with the use of an "avatar" identity.

Rating: Rated PG-13

Back To The Future

Tagline:

Getting back was only the beginning.

Release Date: Wednesday, July 3, 1985

It is the year 1985. Marty McFly, a mild-mannered high school student, stopped by Dr. Emmett L. Brown's laboratory to play around with an amplifier. Then he receives a message from Doc that he needs help from him for Doc's latest invention, a time machine made out of a DeLorean sports car that can travel through time instantaneously when it reaches a speed velocity of 88 MPH. Then, Doc was gunned down by Libyan Nationalists, Marty makes an effort to escape from the Lybians by using the time machine. Then Marty accidentally warps himself into 1955.

Rating: Rated PG

Battle: Los Angeles

Release Date: Friday, March 11, 2011

Battle: Los Angeles revolves around a Marine staff sergeant and his new platoon's battle against an alien invasion force on the streets of Los Angeles. The movie is presented as an intense real-time war movie from the perspective of the Marines, as they attempt to defeat an alien invasion of planet Earth. The film premise is inspired from the Battle of Los Angeles incident.

Rating: Not Rated

District 9

Tagline:

You Are Not Welcome Here

Studio: Sony Pictures

Release Date: Thursday, August 13, 2009

In 1982, a massive star ship bearing a bedraggled alien population, nicknamed "The Prawns," appeared over Johannesburg, South Africa. Twenty-eight years later, the initial welcome by the human population has faded. The refugee camp where the aliens were located has deteriorated into a militarized ghetto called District 9, where they are confined and exploited in squalor. In 2010, the munitions corporation, Multi-National United, is contracted to forcibly evict the population with operative Wikus van der Merwe in charge.

Rating: Rated R

INCEPTION

Tagline:

The Dream is Real

Studio: Warner Bros

Release Date: Friday, July 16, 2010

Dom Cobb is a skilled thief, the absolute best in the dangerous art of extraction, stealing valuable secrets from deep within the subconscious during the dream state, when the mind is at its most vulnerable. Cobb's rare ability has made him a coveted player in this treacherous new world of corporate espionage, but it has also made him an international fugitive and cost him everything he has ever loved. Now Cobb is being offered a chance at redemption. One last job could give him his life back but only if he can accomplish the impossible-inception.

Rating: Rated PG-13

Jurrassic Park

Tagline:

An Adventure 65 Million Years In The Making

Release Date: Thursday, June 10, 1993

Steven Spielberg's phenomenally successful sci-fi adventure thriller is graced by state-of-the-art special effects from the team of Stan Winston, Phil Tippett and Michael Lantieri from George Lucas's Industrial Light & Magic. The film follows two dinosaur experts -- Dr. Alan Grant (Sam Neill) and Dr. Ellie Sattler Laura Dern) -- as they are invited by eccentric millionaire John Hammond (Richard Attenborough) to preview his new amusement park on an island off Costa Rica.

Rating: Rated PG-13

Men in Black

Tagline:

Protecting the earth from the scum of the universe

Studio: Sony Pictures

Release Date: Wednesday, July 2, 1997

For his fifth effort as a feature-film director, one-time cinematographer Barry Sonnenfeld brought his cartoonish visual style and darkly humorous sensibilities to this adaptation of, appropriately enough, a tongue-in-cheek sci-fi comic book. Will Smith stars as James Darrel Edwards, a New York City cop with an athletic physique and a flippant, anti-authoritarian attitude toward law enforcement.

Rating: Rated PG-13

Monsters

Tagline:

After six years, they're no longer aliens. They're residents

Release Date: Friday, October 29, 2010

Six years ago NASA discovered the possibility of alien life within our solar system. A probe was launched to collect samples, but crashed upon re-entry over Central America. Soon after, new life form began to appear and half of Mexico was quarantined as an INFECTED ZONE. Today, the American and Mexican military still struggle to contain "the creatures"...... Our story begins when a US journalist agrees to escort a shaken tourist through the infected zone in Mexico to the safety of the US border.

Rating: Rated R

PAUL

Tagline:

Fugitive. Celebrity. Slacker. Joker. Alien.

Release Date: Friday, March 18, 2011

For the past 60 years, an alien named Paul (voiced by Seth Rogen) has been hanging out at a top-secret military base. For reasons unknown, the space-travelling smart ass decides to escape the compound and hop on the first vehicle out of town—a rented RV containing Earthlings Graeme Willy (Pegg) and Clive Collings (Frost). Chased by federal agents and the fanatical father of a young woman that they accidentally kidnap, Graeme and Clive hatch a fumbling escape plan to return Paul to his mother ship.

Rating: Not Rated

Predator

Tagline:

Nothing like it has ever been on Earth before. It came from another planet for the thrill of the hunt. It picked the wrong man.

Release Date: Friday, June 12, 1987

Dutch (Arnold Schwarzenegger) has a code of honor which he will not violate, even when his life depends on it. Paradoxically, his code of honor gives him the backbone to survive as a military special forces operative when he is sent on a covert mission to rescue another group which was sent in to assist some nefarious U.S. government plan in a Latin American country. Once there, he encounters an old army buddy (Carl Weathers) who has gotten too deep in the CIA's good graces for Dutch's comfort.

Rating: Rated R

Predators

Tagline:

Fear is Reborn

Chosen for their ability to kill without conscience, a group of killers, some trained and some who are not, must endeavour the alien race of predators that have set out to target them as prey. Dropped into the vast jungle of a distant world, these human predators must learn just who, or what, they are up against, and that their ability, knowledge and wits are tested to the limits in the battle of survival of kill or be killed.

Predators breathes new life into the popular science fiction/action franchise which began over 20 years ago.

Rating: Rated R

RESIDENT EVIL (3): EXTINCTION

Tagline:

Experimentation...Evolution...Extinction

Release Date: Friday, September 21, 2007

Years after the Raccoon City disaster, Alice is on her own; aware that she has become a liability and could endanger those around her, she is struggling to survive and bring down the Umbrella Corporation led by the sinister Albert Wesker and head researcher Dr. Isaacs. Meanwhile, traveling through the Nevada Desert and the ruins of Las Vegas, Carlos Olivera, L.J., and new survivors K-Mart, Claire Redfield, and Nurse Betty must fight to survive extinction against hordes of zombies, killer crows and the most terrifying creatures created as a result of the deadly T-Virus that has killed millions.

Rating: Rated PG-13

RESIDENT EVIL (4): AFTERLIFE

Tagline:

She's back...And she's bringing a few of her friends.

Release Date: Friday, September 10, 2010

In a world ravaged by a virus infection, turning its victims into the Undead, Alice (Jovovich), continues on her journey to find survivors and lead them to safety. Her deadly battle with the Umbrella Corporation reaches new heights, but Alice gets some unexpected help from an old friend. A new lead that promises a safe haven from the Undead takes them to Los Angeles, but when they arrive the city is overrun by thousands of Undead - and Alice and her comrades are about to step into a deadly trap.

Rating: Rated PG-13

Skyline

Tagline:

Don't look up

Release Date: Friday, November 12, 2010

Strange lights descend on the city of Los Angeles, drawing people outside like moths to a flame where an extraterrestrial force threatens to swallow the entire human population off the face of the Earth.

SPLICE

Tagline:

She's Not Human... Not Entirely

Studio: Warner Bros

Release Date: Friday, June 4, 2010

Clive Nicoli (Adrien Brody) and Elsa Kast (Sarah Polley) are two young scientists who have been given the job of running a genetic laboratory at a large corporation to develop a protein using animal gene splicing from several different species. To speed up the process, they secretly take a chance and add human DNA to the experiment. What they get is a new organism which Clive wants to destroy, but Elsa convinces him to let it live a little longer. As the creature grows bigger, you begin to see a new animal species.

Rating: Rated R

STAR TREK

Tagline:

The Future Begins

Release Date: Friday, May 8, 2009

On the day of James Kirk's birth, his father dies on his ship in a last stand against a mysterious alien vessel. He was looking for Ambassador Spock, who is a child on Vulcan at that time, disdained by his neighbors for his half-human nature. Twenty years later, Kirk has grown into a young troublemaker inspired by Capt. Christopher Pike to fulfill his potential in Starfleet even as he annoys his instructors like young Lt. Spock.

Rating: Rated PG-13

STAR WARS: Episode I The Phantom Menace

Tagline:

The Story Begins

Studio: LUCASFILM, LTD

Release Date: Wednesday, May 19, 1999

A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away...

When the evil Trade Federation plots to take over the peaceful planet of Naboo, Jedi warrior Qui-Gon Jinn and his apprentice Obi-Wan Kenobi embark on an amazing adventure to save the planet. With them on their journey is the young queen Amidala, Gungan outcast JarJar Binks, and the powerful Captain Panaka, who will all travel to the faraway planets of Tatooine and Coruscant in a futile attempt to save their world from Darth Sidious, leader of the Trade Federation, and Darth Maul, the strongest Dark Lord of the Sith to ever wield a lightsaber.

Rating: Rated PG

STAR WARS: Episode II Attack of the Clones

Tagline:

The Saga Continues.

Studio: LUCASFILM, LTD

Release Date: Thursday, May 16, 2002

A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away...

Ten years after the 'Phantom Menace' threatened the planet Naboo, Padmé Amidala is now a Senator representing her homeworld. A faction of political separatists, led by Count Dooku, attempts to assassinate her. There aren't enough Jedi to defend the Republic against the threat, so Chancellor Palpatine enlists the aid of Jango Fett, who promises that his army of clones will handle the situation. Meanwhile, Obi-Wan Kenobi continues to train the young Jedi Anakin Skywalker, who fears that the Jedi code will forbid his growing romance with Amidala...

Rating: Rated PG

STAR WARS: Episode III Revenge of the Sith

Tagline:

The Saga is Complete

Studio: LUCASFILM, LTD

Release Date: Thursday, May 19, 2005

A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away...

Rating: Rated PG-13