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The best science fiction movies from every decade.

Earth Vs. The Flying Saucers
1956 was either a stellar year to be an intergalactic flying saucer menace, or a bad one, depending on your perspective. We have Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Invasion of the Saucer Men, The Thing, The Day the Earth Stood Still, and Earth Vs. The Flying Saucers. Whatever heavy trip the space brothers were laying on us that year (and it had more to do than just cleaning up the environment) the message was delivered by an iron fist in a velvety intergalactic space gauntlet. Or some such.
By Tom Baker2 years ago in Futurism
Spacehunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone
Spacehunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone, is a film I well remember from childhood. At the Community Rec Center at Fort Clayton in Central America, Panama, area of the Canal Zone, they played it on an old-fashioned projection TV. It's the only other film I can remember seeing there, besides this thing with Abbot and Costello or Laurel and Hardy as pirates. I can't remember which it was.
By Tom Baker2 years ago in Futurism
How Travelling in space Will Transform Our World?
We are now not talking about sci-fi films - we're on the cusp of making space Travelling in real life! As wild as it sounds, advances in rocketry and physics mean we could be jetting through the cosmos within our lifetime. And while gazing at Earth from orbit will be incredible, these innovations stand to reshape life down here too. Let's explore how journeying to infinity and beyond will impact everything from jobs to politics:
By Mayur 2 years ago in Futurism
Akira (Anime)
I vaguely remember seeing Katsuhiro Otomo's Akira as a child--and most likely not understanding a minute of it, but just sitting back and letting the animated images of a futuristic "Neo-Tokyo" wash over me. Decades later, watching it yet again, on a digital YouTube social media platform no one could have foreseen in 1988, I was struck by how modern and well-preserved it is, how much it set the bar for decades of similar anime films, having all the earmarks of the various conventions that define the genre.
By Tom Baker2 years ago in Futurism
Movie Review: The Earth Vs. The Flying Saucers.
Listen to this show wherever you stream or download your podcast. Welcome back to another episode of my podcast on 50s sci-fi. Today, I will be reviewing the classic movie, "The Earth Vs. The Flying Saucers". The film stars Hugh Marlowe and Joan Taylor and was produced by Charles H. Schneer, with a screenplay by Curt Siodmak, and directed by Fred F. Sears. The movie was released in Los Angeles on June 13, 1956, and has a runtime of 84 minutes.
By Edward German2 years ago in Futurism
Tron
Tron is one of my all-time favorite movies, a sci-fi feast that takes place inside a video game world ruled over by the MCP (Master Control Program), a world wherein gladiatorial "programs" battle it out for supremacy, riding rainbow-spewing laser bikes, and going up against floating robot menaces that transform their legs into giant crushing, killing presses. The world is stark, yet weirdly beautiful, an outgrowth of the imagination that conceived a cyberspace realm and brought it to life for the characters to occupy as alternate versions of their meatspace selves. It was groundbreaking stuff in 1982; hence, it flopped at the box office, only attaining cult status in the intervening years, as technology has caught up with and surpassed the virtual world envisioned by the filmmakers.
By Tom Baker2 years ago in Futurism
Temporal Reverse Engineering
Introduction This title is taken from a phrase in the final book of Douglas Adams' five-volume trilogy "The Hitch Hiker's Guide To The Galaxy" ("Mostly Harmless") and that got me thinking.
By Mike Singleton 💜 Mikeydred 2 years ago in Futurism
Devil Girl from Mars
Devil Girl from Mars is a 1954 British film about a flying saucer landing on the Scottish moors near a country inn. The residents are a professor, his assistant, an old couple that runs the place, another woman, some society dame, a young boy, a waitress, her escaped convict husband, and whew! I get tired just giving out that roster. Was there anyone I missed?
By Tom Baker2 years ago in Futurism
NASA, Japan launching the world’s first wooden satellite in 2024
NASA and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) are embarking on a groundbreaking collaboration, signaling a new era in space exploration with the launch of LignoSat, the world's inaugural wooden satellite. This venture serves as a pivotal initiative in the quest for sustainable spaceflight.
By nizam uddin2 years ago in Futurism
Science in Film: "The Martian"
Science fiction has always enthralled readers with its creative exploration of the uncharted. "The Martian," a cinematic adventure that blends exciting storytelling with a dedication to scientific accuracy, is one movie in this genre that stands out. We will examine how "The Martian" masterfully negotiates the difficult field of fusing science and film in this article.
By Muhammad Jahanzaib Tariq Hashmi2 years ago in Futurism
‘Her’: An Essential Revisit
When ‘Her’ initially released in 2013, its predictions about the future ahead may have seemed nebulous. In the year 2023, though, it’s a difficult film to watch without an unnerving awareness of the reality we’re marching into.
By Ben Ulansey2 years ago in Futurism
The Believable Dystopia of Black Mirror Season 5
So what if I'm doing a review for the fifth season of Black Mirror a few years late… and? Maybe I wanted to put off my fears for the future for as long as I could. Maybe I wasn't particularly excited to watch the singer of "Party in the USA" starring in a Black Mirror episode. But now that season 6 is upon us, I guess I can wait no longer.
By Ben Ulansey2 years ago in Futurism