Blade Runner (1982)

Blade Runner (1982)
Rating: ★★★★★
Jan 8, 2000Cyberpunk Future/Hunt for Escaped Androids
Ridley Scott's film was not a success at the time but has since been regarded as a SF masterpiece, one of the defining screen treatments of android themes while the incredibly dense Cyberpunk vision of the future was copied by many subsequent films

Dune (1984)

Dune (1984)
Rating: ★★★½
Feb 1, 2001Desert World/Intergalactic Politics/Precognitive Messiah
David Lynch disowned his film version of the classic Frank Herbert SF novel. However, Lynch may be incapable of making a bad film and this, while acting freely with the book, has a visual grandeur that makes it highly watchable

Baby – Secret of the Lost Legend (1985)

Baby – Secret of the Lost Legend (1985)
Rating: ★★★
Aug 4, 1999Dinosaur Discovered
Disney family film about an expedition into unexplored Africa to find a dinosaur. This was made way before Jurassic Park and the advent of CGI and so the effects are physical and highly variable but the film achieves an undeniable tenderness

Parasomnia (2008)

Parasomnia (2008)
Rating: ★★
Jun 2, 2015Girl With Sleeping Sickness/Dream-Invading Serial Killer
William Malone, the director of House on Haunted Hill remake, makes an interestingly different film about a girl who has spent most of her life asleep being pursued by a genius killer who invades her dreams

Bone Tomahawk (2015)

Bone Tomahawk (2015)
Rating: ★★★½
Dec 19, 2015Horror Western/Wilderness Cannibal Tribe
This is like a Western version of The Hills Have Eyes. Exceptionally written – slow, sombre and character-driven, containing one of Kurt Russell's best performances, before emerging into a brutal horror survival story

Escape Room (2017)

Escape Room (2017)
Rating: ★★
Dec 12, 2018Group Trapped in an Escape Room with a Demonic Force
One of at least three identically titled films coming out around the same time based around the popularity of escape rooms. This has a group trapped in a room with an unleashed demonic force

Blade Runner 2049 (2017)

Blade Runner 2049 (2017)
Rating: ★★★★½
Jan 6, 2018Cyberpunk Future/Androids
Blade Runner is a landmark classic but this is well worthwhile sequel from Denis Villeneuve that recreates the fascinating Cyberpunk world in more detail and expands out on the themes laid down in the original. Made with impeccably beautiful detail

In Search of Tomorrow: A Journey Through ’80s Sci-Fi Cinema (2022)

In Search of Tomorrow: A Journey Through ’80s Sci-Fi Cinema (2022)
Rating: ★★½
Sep 25, 2022Documentary About 1980s SF Films
A documentary that comes with great affection for the SF films of the 1980s and covers these, along with interviews with key people, although leaves quite a number of blank spots in works it does not cover