Subgenre Sampler
Rental > Science Slip: 98 Films to Rent on DVD
- Metropolis (2000)
- Dir. Rinataro
- Visually splendid ‘future–noir’ set in a teeming, multi–leveled city, inhabited by several storylines: a detective quest, the…
- Virtual Sexuality (1999)
- Dir. Nick Hurran
Feat. Laura Fraser
- Putting a digital spin on the tried–and–true 'perfect–partner' concept, we have teen Laura Fraser so anxious to lose her virginity…
- Face Off (1997)
- Dir. John Woo
Feat. John Travolta, Nicolas Cage, Joan Allen
- Dir. John Woo melds modern action technology with old–fashioned Mission Impossible–style intrigue.
Good guy John Travolta and bad guy…
- Flubber (1997)
- Dir. Les Mayfield
Feat. Robin Williams, Marcia Gay Harden
- Robin Williams again gets the character–chemistry right in a reprise of the classic Absent–Minded Professor, the inadvertent inventor of…
- Mimic (1997)
- Dir. Guillermo Del Toro
Feat. Mira Sorvino, Jeremy Northam
- A mutant strain of humanoid bugs come back to taunt entomologist Mira Sorvino, who enters into a fierce confrontation through the dank, falteringly…
- Relic, The (1997)
- Dir. Peter Hyams
Feat. Penelope Ann Miller, Tom Sizemore
- A dormant microbe mutates and runs amok! ALIEN–in–a–museum is the concept for this well regarded B–picture that spends most…
- Chain Reaction (1996)
- Dir. Andrew Davis
Feat. Keanu Reeves, Morgan Freeman, Rachel Weisz
- The science–slip and fugitive genres converge in this rather silly vehicle for a post–SPEED Keanu Reeves. His innocent,…
- Species (1995)
- Dir. Roger Donaldson
Feat. Ben Kingsley, Michael Madsen, Forest Whitaker…
- Ben Kingsley rounds up 'experts' (Michael Madsen, Forest Whitaker, Alfred Molina, Marg Helgenberger), a kind of A–Team of strange phenomena to…
- Forever Young (1993)
- Dir. Steve Miner
Feat. Mel Gibson, Jamie Lee Curtis
- 1930s test pilot Mel Gibson loses his great love and volunteers for a cryogenics experiment. Fast forward fifty years, enter Jamie Lee Curtis and son…
- Jurassic Park (1993)
- Dir. Steven Spielberg
Feat. Sam Neill, Laura Dern, Jeff Goldblum…
- All–time world box–office champ will be most remembered for the breakthrough computer effects that bring the Dinos to astonishing life.…