231. 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.
232. Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes
Year of Release: 2024
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Sci-Fi
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Wes Ball
Actors: Owen Teague, Freya Allan, Kevin Durand, William H. Macy, Peter Macon, Lydia Peckham
Plot: Three hundred years after the passing of Caesar, apes have evolved while humans have fallen. Noa is about to come of age in his Eagle Clan but the intrusion of a superior force leaves him for dead while taking his surviving clan captive. Vowing to get them back, he is joined by a young female human - who holds her own secrets - and one of the last, true followers of Caesar as they make their way to an oceanside stronghold where a mad tyrant holds sway.
233. Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man
Year of Release: 1943
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Sci-Fi/Horror
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Roy William Neill
Actors: Bela Lugosi, Lon Chaney Jr., Patric Knowles, Maria Ouspenskaya, Ilona Massey, Dennis Hoey
Plot: Larry Talbot aka The Wolfman, is in the care of Dr. Manning - but knows
his condition cannot be cured my modern medicine. Instead, after escaping
the asylum, an old gypsy points him to the only man who can help: Dr.
Frankenstein. But the doctor is nowhere to be found - his daughter, who
send him to the ruins of the former castle - but is not abandoned as
Frankenstein's monster is still around.
234. Dreamscape
Year of Release: 1984
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Sci-Fi/Adventure
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Joseph Ruben
Actors: Dennis Quaid, Max von Sydow, Christopher Plummer, Kate Capshaw, Peter Jason, Madison Mason
Plot: If you die in a dream do you die in real life? Can a person enter you dream and kill you for real? How does the President of the United States of America tie in?
235. Stargate: The Ark of Truth
Year of Release: 2008
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Adventure/Sci-Fi
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Robert C. Cooper
Actors: Beau Bridges, Ben Browder, Amanda Tapping, Christopher Judge, Michael Shanks, Claudia Black
Plot: SG-1 travel to the Ori Galaxy in search of the Ark of Truth. Created by the ancients they believe it is they key to defeating the Ori.
236. The Maze Runner
Year of Release: 2014
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Sci-Fi
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Wes Ball
Actors: Will Poulter, Dylan O'Brien, Kaya Scodelario, Thomas Brodie-Sangster, Patricia Clarkson, Aml Ameen
Plot: In a dark future, Thomas finds himself on an elevator, remembering nothing but his own name. He soon finds himself in "The Glade", a community of about 60 other young men - who have learned to survive in this enclosure while trying to find a means of escape. Every 30 days a new boy arrives - and they fight not only for survival, but also against the Grievers - creatures who plague the community. Their world is changed forever when the next arrival is comatose girl with a note.
237. Rollerball
Year of Release: 1975
Overall Rating: 2.5 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Sci-Fi
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Norman Jewison
Actors: James Caan, John Houseman, Maud Adams, John Beck, Moses Gunn, Pamela Hensley
Plot: Set in the future, corporations have replaced countries and eliminate war and poverty but at the expense of individuality. In order to satisfy the bloodlust that mankind craves they invent the violent Rollerball - but when the top star, Jonathan E., begins to question the corporate rule, he faces as much danger in the sport as he does outside it.
238. 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, Leslie Bevis, Peter Jason
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.
239. 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, Danny Glover, Josef Sommer
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.
240. Alita: Battle Angel
Year of Release: 2019
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Sci-Fi/Action
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Robert Rodriguez
Actors: Rosa Salazar, Christoph Waltz, Jennifer Connelly, Mahershala Ali, Michelle Rodriguez, Jackie Earle Haley
Plot: Centuries into the future, cyber-doctor Ito comes across a deactivated cyborg in the massive scrapyard of the harsh Iron City. Seeing opportunity, he fixes and reactivates Alita, who awakens to a world she doesn't recognize with no memory of who she once was. While the good doctor tries to shield her from the injustice of this new world, street-smart Hugo wants to open her eyes. But when deadly forces suddenly take an interest in her, and the people she has come to care for in her new life, she finds her purpose - an extraordinary fighting ability, one that could save the world - or destroy it.
