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Thu 21 October , 10

The Guardian’s top 25 Sci-Fi & Fantasy Films

Filed under: Film — Tags: 2001, Akira, Alien, Alphaville, Back to the Fiture, Blade Runner, Brazil, Close Encounters, Dark Star, Edward Scissorhands, ET, King Kong, Lord of the Rings, Metropolis, Pan's Labyrinth, Planet of the Apes, Solaris, Spirited Away, Star Wars, Starship Troopers, T2, Terminator, The Day the Earth Stood Still, The Matrix, The Princess Bride, The Wizard of Oz — SFG @ 16:49

For the past week or so the Guardian has been running a series of film lists, running down the top 25 in specific genres.
The science fiction and fantasy top 25 was posted today, and I have issues with it. (more…)

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Fri 23 May , 08

The 10 most Prophetic Sci-Fi Films

Filed under: Film — Tags: 2001 : A Space Odyssey, Blade Runner, Destination Moon, Films, Gattaca, Mad Max 2, Minority Report, Prophetic, Sci-Fi, Science Fiction, Short Circuit, Soylent Green, The Running Man, The Truman Show, Top 10 — SFG @ 13:23

When Arthur C. Clarke died, science fiction – hell, science in general – lost one of its greatest, most forward-looking masters. In his honour, Popular Mechanics’s resident geek and sci-fi buff analyses the most eerily predictive, prescient films of the future. They’re not necessarily the best films – just the ones that got the science right, or will sometime soon.

I’m not going to list the films in ranking, instead I’m listing them alphabetically.
Clicking the images below will take you to their positions as well as write-ups by Popular Mechanics.