221. Cowboys & Aliens
Year of Release: 2011
Overall Rating: 2.5 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Sci-Fi/Fantasy
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Jon Favreau
Actors: Harrison Ford, Daniel Craig, Olivia Wilde, Sam Rockwell, Clancy Brown, Paul Dano
Plot: In 1873 a lone stranger finds himself in the town of Absolution in the
Arizona Territory. With no memory and a shackle on his wrist, he finds
strangers are not welcome, especially by the touch-as-nails town leader,
Colonel Dolarhyde. Yet the town will soon be beset by invaders from the
sky and the lone stranger holds to key to survival.
222. 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.
223. Surrogates
Year of Release: 2009
Overall Rating: 2.5 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Sci-Fi/Thriller
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Jonathan Mostow
Actors: James Francis Ginty, Michael O'Toole, Bruce Willis, Rosamund Pike, Radha Mitchell, Ving Rhames
Plot: A future where humanity is isolated, pain-free and docile - because instead of venturing out themselves, they send surrogates, perfect mechanical counterparts, to do the work. But when a murder shatters this perfect world, an FBI agent will discover a conspiracy behind this perfect world and will have to abandon his own surrogate and risk his own life to find the truth.
224. Possessor
Year of Release: 2020
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Horror/Sci-Fi
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Brandon Cronenberg
Actors: Andrea Riseborough, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Sean Bean, Tuppence Middleton, Christopher Abbott, Rossif Sutherland
Plot: Tasya Vos is special kind of corporate agent - one who uses technology to inhabit other people's bodies, take over their minds and use them for assassinations to benefit the company. But time and stress has taken a toll and her mental state is in flux and when she inhabits the body of a particularly strong-willed individual, it threatens to erase her instead.
225. Solo: A Star Wars Story
Year of Release: 2018
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Sci-Fi
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Ron Howard
Actors: Alden Ehrenreich, Donald Glover, Emilia Clarke, Paul Bettany, Woody Harrelson, Thandie Newton
Plot: Through a series of daring escapades deep within a dark and dangerous criminal underworld, Han Solo meets his mighty future copilot Chewbacca and encounters the notorious gambler Lando Calrissian, in a journey that will set the course of one of the Star Wars saga’s most unlikely heroes.
226. 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.
227. Jackie Chan's Who Am I? ( Wo shi shei )
Year of Release: 1998
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Sci-Fi
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Benny Chan, Jackie Chan
Actors: Jackie Chan, Michelle Ferre, Mirai Yamamoto, Ron Smerczak, Ed Nelson, Glory Simon
Plot: A special forces agent gets amnesia after a helicopter crash. He begins to unravel who he really is while being chased by an army of operatives bent on his destruction.
228. 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, Ulrich Thomsen, Kim Bubbs
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.
229. Alien: Covenant
Year of Release: 2017
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Adventure/Sci-Fi
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Ridley Scott
Actors: Michael Fassbender, Katherine Waterston, Danny McBride, Billy Crudup, Demián Bichir, Carmen Ejogo
Plot: The colony ship Covenant is on a mission to a remote planet on the far side of the galaxy. Landing on what they believe to be an idyllic paradise, they instead find a much more dark and dangerous planet - one whose sole inhabitant seems to be David, a synthetic android and seemingly the only survivor of the Prometheus expedition.
230. The Blob
Year of Release: 1958
Overall Rating: 2.5 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Horror/Sci-Fi
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Irvin S. Yeaworth Jr.
Actors: Steve McQueen, Aneta Corsaut, Earl Rowe, Olin Howland, Alden 'Stephen' Chase, John Benson
Plot: A meteoroite delivers a gelatinous creature to earth, which promptly begins devouring the citizens of a nearby small town. The growing "blob" tries its best to terrorize the town, but the ultra-cool Steve McQueen gives the "blob" the cold-shoulder and saves the day!
