Science Fiction movies we've reviewed

Transformers

More oil was used on Megan Fox than all the automobiles i...

Reviewed Jun 21, 2011

Young teenager Sam Witwicky becomes involved in the ancient struggle between two extraterrestrial factions of transforming robots – the heroic Autobots and the evil Decepticons. Sam holds the clue to unimaginable power and the Decepticons will stop at nothing to retrieve it. Genres: Action, Adventure, Science Fiction, Theatrical Release

The Transformers: The Movie

You're not fooling anyone, Hot Rod. The next screw that f...

Reviewed Jun 14, 2011

The Autobots must stop a colossal planet-consuming robot who goes after the Autobot Matrix of Leadership. At the same time, they must defend themselves against an all-out attack from the Decepticons. Genres: Action, Adventure, Animation, Family, Science Fiction, Theatrical Release

X-Men: First Class

Now we gotta cut loose, with nukes!

Reviewed Jun 4, 2011

Before Charles Xavier and Erik Lensherr took the names Professor X and Magneto, they were two young men discovering their powers for the first time. Before they were arch-enemies, they were closest of friends, working together with other mutants (some familiar, some new), to stop the greatest threat the world has ever known. Genres: Action, Adventure, Science Fiction, Superhero, Theatrical Release

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X-Men Origins: Wolverine

After this podcast, we're afraid Stryker is going to try ...

Reviewed May 27, 2011

After seeking to live a normal life, Logan sets out to avenge the death of his girlfriend by undergoing the mutant Weapon X program and becoming Wolverine. Genres: Action, Adventure, Science Fiction, Superhero, Theatrical Release

X-Men: The Last Stand

Multiple men discuss Multiple Man

Reviewed May 20, 2011

When a cure is found to treat mutations, lines are drawn amongst the X-Men—led by Professor Charles Xavier—and the Brotherhood, a band of powerful mutants organised under Xavier's former ally, Magneto. Genres: Action, Adventure, Science Fiction, Superhero, Theatrical Release, Thriller

X2: X-Men United

Bobby's brother was nominated for Worst Movie Sibling 2003

Reviewed May 13, 2011

Professor Charles Xavier and his team of genetically gifted superheroes face a rising tide of anti-mutant sentiment led by Col. William Stryker. Storm, Wolverine and Jean Grey must join their usual nemeses—Magneto and Mystique—to unhinge Stryker's scheme to exterminate all mutants. Genres: Action, Adventure, Science Fiction, Superhero, Theatrical Release

X-Men

The greatest trick Magneto ever pulled was convincing the...

Reviewed May 6, 2011

Two mutants, Rogue and Wolverine, come to a private academy for their kind whose resident superhero team, the X-Men, must oppose a terrorist organization with similar powers. Genres: Action, Adventure, Science Fiction, Superhero, Theatrical Release

Generation X

Max Headroom, Ace Ventura, and Freddy Krueger all rolled ...

Reviewed Apr 29, 2011

A group of young mutants--humans with a genetic variation that gives them superpowers and makes them feared by the population at large--begin training at a school for heroes. Their studies are interrupted when they must rescue one of their number from a mad scientist who can enter others' dreams. Genres: Action, Fantasy, Science Fiction, Superhero, TV Movie

Deep Blue Sea

The sharks are smarter than the screenwriters

Reviewed Apr 25, 2011

Researchers on the undersea lab Aquatica have genetically altered the brains of captive sharks to develop a cure for Alzheimer's disease. But there's an unexpected side effect: the sharks got smarter, faster, and more dangerous. After a big storm damages their remote research facility, they must fight for their lives. Genres: Action, Horror, Science Fiction, Theatrical Release

Man-Thing

He who knows good movies burns at a screening of Man-Thing!

Reviewed Mar 18, 2011

Agents of an oil tycoon vanish while exploring a swamp marked for drilling. The local sheriff investigates and faces a Seminole legend come to life: Man-Thing, a shambling swamp-monster whose touch burns those who feel fear. Genres: Action, Adventure, Direct to Video/Streaming, Horror, Romance, Science Fiction, Superhero

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Howard the Duck

Trapped in a podcast we never made...

Reviewed Mar 9, 2011

A scientific experiment unknowingly brings extraterrestrial life forms to the Earth through a laser beam. First is the cigar-smoking drake, Howard, from the duck's planet. A few kids try to keep him from the greedy scientists and help him back to his planet, but then a much less friendly being arrives through the beam... Genres: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Romance, Science Fiction, Superhero, Theatrical Release

The Adjustment Bureau

Listening to this podcast is part of your plan

Reviewed Mar 5, 2011

A man glimpses the future Fate has planned for him – and chooses to fight for his own destiny. Battling the powerful Adjustment Bureau across, under and through the streets of New York, he risks his destined greatness to be with the only woman he's ever loved. Genres: Romance, Science Fiction, Theatrical Release, Thriller

Next

We guess Cage didn't see this one coming.

Reviewed Feb 25, 2011

Las Vegas showroom magician Cris Johnson has a secret which torments him: he can see a few minutes into the future. Sick of the examinations he underwent as a child and the interest of the government and medical establishment in his power, he lies low under an assumed name in Vegas, performing cheap tricks and living off small-time gambling "winnings." But when a terrorist group threatens to detonate a nuclear device in Los Angeles, government agent Callie Ferris must use all her wiles to capture Cris and convince him to help her stop the cataclysm. Genres: Action, Science Fiction, Theatrical Release, Thriller, Time Travel

A Scanner Darkly

Keanu has never been so animated

Reviewed Feb 18, 2011

An undercover cop in a not-too-distant future becomes involved with a dangerous new drug and begins to lose his own identity as a result. Genres: Animation, Science Fiction, Theatrical Release, Thriller

Paycheck

Given a choice, which movie of his do you think Affleck w...

Reviewed Feb 11, 2011

Michael Jennings is a genius who's hired – and paid handsomely – by high-tech firms to work on highly sensitive projects, after which his short-term memory is erased so he's incapable of breaching security. But at the end of a three-year job, he's told he isn't getting a paycheck and instead receives a mysterious envelope. In it are clues he must piece together to find out why he wasn't paid – and why he's now in hot water. Genres: Action, Adventure, Mystery, Science Fiction, Theatrical Release, Thriller

Minority Report

Precog sounds like a plumbing term.

Reviewed Feb 4, 2011

John Anderton is a top 'Precrime' cop in the late-21st century, when technology can predict crimes before they're committed. But Anderton becomes the quarry when another investigator targets him for a murder charge. Genres: Action, Science Fiction, Theatrical Release, Thriller

Impostor

Mr. Monk and the Case of the Reshot Footage

Reviewed Jan 28, 2011

A top-secret government weapons designer is arrested by a clandestine government organization on suspicion of being a clone created by the hostile alien race wanting to take over Earth. Genres: Action, Science Fiction, Theatrical Release, Thriller

Screamers

Type 6 Screamers look like DVR boxes. You have been warned.

Reviewed Jan 21, 2011

SIRIUS 6B, Year 2078. On a distant mining planet ravaged by a decade of war, scientists have created the perfect weapon: a blade-wielding, self-replicating race of killing devices known as Screamers designed for one purpose only -- to hunt down and destroy all enemy life forms. Genres: Horror, Science Fiction, Theatrical Release, War

Total Recall (1990)

Man, I just pulled my Quato

Reviewed Jan 14, 2011

Construction worker Douglas Quaid's obsession with the planet Mars leads him to visit Recall, a company that manufactures memories. When his memory implant goes wrong, Doug can no longer be sure what is and isn't reality. Genres: Action, Adventure, Science Fiction, Theatrical Release

Blade Runner

Anyone else see a unicorn run through here?

Reviewed Jan 7, 2011

In the smog-choked dystopian Los Angeles of 2019, blade runner Rick Deckard is called out of retirement to terminate a quartet of replicants who have escaped to Earth seeking their creator for a way to extend their short life spans. Genres: Drama, Science Fiction, Theatrical Release, Thriller

TRON: Legacy

In Cyberspace, no one can hear you over the techno.

Reviewed Dec 20, 2010

Sam Flynn, the tech-savvy and daring son of Kevin Flynn, investigates his father's disappearance and is pulled into The Grid. With the help of a mysterious program named Quorra, Sam quests to stop evil dictator Clu from crossing into the real world. Genres: Action, Adventure, Science Fiction, Theatrical Release

Tron

Check out the data discs on her!

Reviewed Dec 3, 2010

When brilliant video game maker Flynn hacks the mainframe of his ex-employer, he is beamed inside an astonishing digital world and becomes part of the very game he is designing. In his mission through cyberspace, Flynn matches wits with a maniacal Master Control Program and teams up with Tron, a security measure created to bring balance to the digital environment. Genres: Action, Adventure, Science Fiction, Theatrical Release

The X Files: I Want to Believe

They should have quit while they were a head (hah!)

Reviewed Aug 5, 2010

Mulder and Scully are called back to duty by the FBI when a former priest claims to be receiving psychic visions pertaining to a kidnapped agent. Genres: Mystery, Science Fiction, Theatrical Release, Thriller

The X-Files: Fight the Future

We can't handle (or understand) the truth.

Reviewed Jul 28, 2010

Mulder and Scully, now taken off the FBI's X Files cases, must find a way to fight the shadowy elements of the government to find out the truth about a conspiracy that might mean the alien colonization of Earth. Genres: Mystery, Science Fiction, Theatrical Release, Thriller