Director - Ridley Scott

Starring:

Harrison Ford

Rutger Hauer

Sean Young

William Sanderson 

Despite the fact that the movie didn’t do well upon release, Blade Runner has become a cult classic, and has earned the reputation as one of the ultimate scifi flicks.

The scene is 2019, when most of the planet has died out, and is ravaged by acidic rain and radioactive dust.  The animals have mostly died, but genetic engineers make their own animals.  Aside from making animals, they also make people—or something LIKE people, called ‘replicants’ in the movie.  One single company is responsible for making them, and that company continually tries to make them less and less discernable from people.

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A Scanner Darkly

Director - Richard Linklater

Starring:
Keanu Reeves
Robert Downey Jr.
Winona Ryder
Woody Harrelson

This animated science fiction film has an all star cast, and ranks up there with one of my favorite sci-fi flicks.

Many people think of the film as Phillip K. Dick's autobiography. I myself think he was more or less trying to find humor in his own paranoid state, and came up with a great story.

The plot centers around Bob Archer (Keanu Reeves), who works as an undercover agent for the Orange County Police Department. His mission was to make his way to the top of a drug ring and find someone 'worth busting.' Because of his undercover status, his immediate superior doesn't know his true identity, and Archer is ordered to dig deeper into his own assumed identity. For this, he sets up surveillance cameras in his own home, and watches the footage from the department.

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Quarantine

Directed By – John Erick Dowdle

Starring:
Jennifer Carpenter
Jay Hernandez
Steve Harris
Rade Serbedzija
Greg White

This film is shot in that ultra-cheap mode, where everything is through the eyes of a single cameraman. While I normally hate this in movies, it's bearable in the beginning since the cameraman himself is supposed to be a professional, and does make some attempt to keep the camera steady. But as the movie progresses, the scenes get worse, and the picture gets harder and harder to follow.

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Primer

Directed By - Shane Carruth

Staring:
Shane Carruth
David Sullivan

Aaron (Shane Carruth) and his colleague Abe (David Sullivan) work together to make a machine that send an object (or person) back through time. They first use it simply to make some money on the stock market, and are careful not to disturb the 'time order'. But eventually they find themselves wondering "what if?"

As they use the machine more and more, they find themselves repeating the same tasks over and over again. Trying to 'right their wrong' they give themselves scripts to follow so that nothing will be put out of order. Finally, they come to a point where there are multiple versions of themselves living in the same time period, and have to get rid of some of them. The real problems arise when they think someone else has found their secret and may have used it.

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Children Of Men

Directed By - Alfonso Cuarón

Staring:

Clive Owen

Julianne Moore

Claire-Hope Ashitey

Chiwetel Ejiofor

Michael Caine

Clive Owen plays Theo Faron, a man whose baby died at the age of two and whose wife (Julianne Moore) left him because she couldn't handle the loss.

He lives in Great Britain in 2027.  Almost 20 years ago, the entire world suffered an epidemic--infertility.  In the first scene, Owen finds out the the world's youngest man, "Baby Diego" has just died.  

This is the opening for one of the most pro-life pictures ever made.  I'd have to say it even tops The Silent Scream.  

Theo gets involved with a rebel group who is hiding a pregnant girl (Kee, played by Claire-Hope Ashitey)... the only woman with child on the planet.  The rebel group wants to use her baby as a mascott.  But Theo's ex-wife had told the girl not to trust anyone except Theo himself.

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