Strange New World (1975)
Feb 23, 2023Cryogenic Sleepers Awake in a Post-Apocalyptic World
The third of the films based around Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry’s Genesis II concept where a cryogenic sleeper awakes in a post-apocalyptic world
Walon Green
Solarbabies (1986)
Jan 20, 2005Post-Holocaust Teen Sports Team
Embarrassingly bad Mel Brooks produced film that seems to have been conceived in terms of conducting a juvenile Mad Max film on rollerskates and throwing SF cliches about without any coherent script
RoboCop 2 (1990)
Jan 6, 2011Cyborg Cop
With a script co-written by Frank Miller, this sequel comes in as a leaner work that abandons the campier excesses of its predecessor while expanding on its ideas with considerable ingenuity
Without Warning (1994)
Aug 1, 2023Live TV Broadcast/Possible Alien Arrival
Made for the anniversary of the Orson Welles’ War of the Worlds broadcast, a tv movie that simulates a a live newscast as alien craft arrive around the world
Eraser (1996)
May 23, 2003Action/Hi-Tech Weaponry
The publicity machine made a big effort to convince us we were a more serious Arnold Schwarzenegger film but it is business as usual. The spectacular action scenes are frequently undercut by their absurd improbability
Dinosaur (2000)
May 22, 2000Disney Animation/Talking Dinosaurs
The first full computer animated film from Disney. It feels like someone decided to give the Jurassic Park dinosaurs their own film, mixed up with the plot of The Land Before Time