Fantastic Four 

Sometime in the future, five astronauts gain superpowers after being exposed to cosmic radiation; little do four of them know that the fifth (Julian McMahon) plans to use the powers…

The X-Files: Agents and Aliens

Gillian Anderson and David Duchovny. Photo: Fox “The truth is out there”. That was the slogan that ended most episodes’ opening credit sequence and in that lies the reason why…

Moonraker

James Bond (Roger Moore) tries to find out what happened to a missing space shuttle and the traces lead to an industrialist (Michael Lonsdale) who is planning to start a…

X-Men: The Last Stand

As a “cure” for genetic mutations is found in a boy, Magneto (Ian McKellen) declares war on those who want to use the antidote against mutants. Oh, and Jean Grey…

Back to the Future: Party Like It’s 1955

Michael J. Fox and Christopher Lloyd. Photo: Universal Robert Zemeckis’s highly entertaining Romancing the Stone (1984) obviously borrowed a lot from Steven Spielberg’s Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981), even if its hero…

3rd Rock From the Sun 

This sitcom became an opportunity for the versatile actor John Lithgow to tickle our funny bone – and he was good at it. The show featured four aliens that came…

War of the Worlds 

When tripods taller than buildings suddenly burst out from under the ground and start blasting everything and everyone to pieces, Ray Ferrier (Tom Cruise) grabs his kids and runs for…

Alien: The Deadly Stowaway

Sigourney Weaver. Photo: 20th Century Fox The most famous sequence of this horrifying classic takes place about thirty minutes into the story. Everyone is relaxing after a somewhat gut-wrenching experience.…