Subgenre Sampler
Science Fiction: 1571 Films to Buy & Rent
Sucker Punch (2011)
- Dir. Zack Snyder
Feat. Emily Browning, Abbie Cornish, Jena Malone…
- The dir. of 300 helms this male adolescent fantasy based around a group of nubile young girls who reimagine the mental asylum they've been committed…
Super 8 (2011)
- Dir. J.J. Abrams
Feat. Kyle Chandler, Elle Fanning, Riley Griffiths…
- A young group of film–loving friends witness a train crash and suspect it was not an accident and their suspicions are fueled by a series of…
Terra Nova (TV Series) (2011)
- Feat. Jason O'Mara, Shelley Conn
- Short–lived sci–fi drama series about a 22nd Century family who escape their modern dystopia by returning to an outpost in the Cretaceous…
Thing, The (2011)
- Dir. Matthijs van Heijningen Jr.
Feat. Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Joel Edgerton, Ulrich Thomsen…
- A fairly perfunctory, though by no means terrible prequel to John Carpenter's sci–fi classic, centred on a young paleontologist (Winstead)…
Thor (2011)
- Dir. Kenneth Branagh
Feat. Chris Hemsworth, Anthony Hopkins, Natalie Portman…
- Engaging superhero escapism with The God of Thunder banished to earth where his skills with a hammer soon come in handy.
Flitting between godly…
Transformers - Dark of the Moon (Transformers 3) (2011)
- Dir. Michael Bay
Feat. Shia LaBeouf, Josh Duhamel, John Turturro…
- The brashest of blockbuster franchises rolls on seemingly eternally, but this one's at least an improvement of the execrable REVENGE OF THE FALLEN.…
Twilight: Breaking Dawn Part 1 (2011)
- Dir. Bill Condon
Feat. Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson, Taylor Lautner…
- Penultimate installment of the Gothic fantasy phenomenon teases out the conclusion to the romantic saga in lucrative and popular fashion with Bella…
X-Men: First Class (2011)
- Dir. Matthew Vaughn
Feat. James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender, Jennifer Lawrence…
- The X–MEN juggernaut rolls on, benefiting from a spring clean of the principal cast, in this hugely entertaining origin movie set against the…
Batman: Under the Red Hood (2010)
- Dir. Brandon Vietti
- The 8th stand alone Batman feature film in the "DC Universe Animated Original Movies" series, with Batman going up against a mysterious vigilante…
Beyond the Black Rainbow (2010)
- Dir. Panos Cosmatos
Feat. Eva Allan, Michael Rogers, Scott Hylands
- This startling cult–film–in–the–making concerns the escape attempt of a sedated prisoner from a futuristic commune.
An…