231. Alien Nation
Year of Release: 1988
Overall Rating: 2.5 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Sci-Fi
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Graham Baker
Actors: James Caan, Mandy Patinkin, Terence Stamp, Kevyn Major Howard
Plot: Two cops, one originally from another planet, the other a human racist against the aliens, have to learn to get along to find a police killer, and get a dangerous alien drug off the street.
232. The Thing
Year of Release: 2011
Overall Rating: 2.5 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Horror/Sci-Fi
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Matthijs van Heijningen Jr.
Actors: Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Eric Christian Olsen, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Joel Edgerton
Plot: A prequel to the 1982 films of the same name: A research team in the Antarctic comes across an alien spacecraft leading to a confrontation between the lead scientist and his graduate students on what to do about the discovery.
233. Iceman
Year of Release: 1984
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Sci-Fi
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Fred Schepisi
Actors: Timothy Hutton, Lindsay Crouse, John Lone, David Strathairn
Plot: An Arctic researcher, Shepherd, discovers a 40,000 year-old man frozen in ice. Shepherd wants to protect him, but a surgical team wants to dissect the mystical Iceman.
234. Robinson Crusoe on Mars
Year of Release: 1964
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Sci-Fi
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Byron Haskin
Actors: Adam West, Victor Lundin, Paul Mantee
Plot: When his spaceship crash-lands on Mars, astronaut Kit Draper must figure out how to survive on the barren, lifeless planet with only a monkey to keep him company. As Draper searches for food, water and oxygen, he eventually discovers that the dead planet may actually harbor life - but it's not clear whether the Martians are friends or foes.
235. Slither
Year of Release: 2006
Overall Rating: 2.5 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Horror/Sci-Fi
MPAA Rating: R
Director: James Gunn
Actors: Nathan Fillion, Elizabeth Banks, Tania Saulnier, Michael Rooker
Plot: A small town is taken over by a parasitic alien life form that controls their minds.
236. Repo Man
Year of Release: 1984
Overall Rating: 2.5 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Sci-Fi
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Alex Cox
Actors: Harry Dean Stanton, Emilio Estevez, Tracey Walter, Olivia Barash
Plot: Otto is a punk who has lost his job, his girl and his future (thanks to his parents giving away his college fund to a televangelist). Lucky for him, he has found kindred spirits in a group of local repo men with big attitudes and unique views on life. When a Chevy Malibu shows up with a whopping $20,000 reward, the chase is on, but the car houses a dangerous cargo.
237. Tomorrowland
Year of Release: 2015
Overall Rating: 2.5 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Sci-Fi
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Brad Bird
Actors: George Clooney, Britt Robertson, Hugh Laurie, Raffey Cassidy
Plot: A pair of geniuses - one a bright, optimistic teen, the other a former boy-genius-turned-jaded adult - happen to share the same destiny - one that leads to a place outside time and space and into their collective memories - a place called Tomorrowland.
238. Europa Report
Year of Release: 2013
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Sci-Fi/Thriller
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Sebastián Cordero
Actors: Sharlto Copley, Michael Nyqvist, Christian Camargo, Daniel Wu
Plot: An international crew is handpicked to take a dangerous journey to Europa, Jupiter's glacial moon, in order to search for extraterrestrial life. Though the crew thinks they have prepared for everything - the private mission will take an unexpected turn.
239. Dark Star
Year of Release: 1974
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Sci-Fi
MPAA Rating: G
Director: John Carpenter
Actors: Brian Narelle, Cal Kuniholm, Dre Pahich, Dan O'Bannon
Plot: A group of four astronauts are tasked with removing unstable planets to make way for future colonization, but as they near their goal aliens, computer malfunctions and a too smart bomb put their mission in jeopardy.
240. Time Lapse
Year of Release: 2014
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Sci-Fi/Thriller
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Bradley King
Actors: Danielle Panabaker, Matt O'Leary, George Finn, Sharon Maughan
Plot: After a tenet goes missing, a group of friends discover he has been working on a machine that points into their window and takes pictures of the near future. Using the device to their advantage, they begins to use it to win bets - but things soon spiral out of control as the future begins to reveal a much darker turn of events.
