Journey Through Sci-Fi | Sci-Fi Movie Podcast

An alien abducts five people off the street, hands each of them a box of capsules that can kill every human being within three thousand miles, and says he very much hopes they won't use them. He is not being straight about the odds. He has already decided what humans do with a loaded gun, and he has come to collect the planet afterwards. A year later a different alien turns up o...

Dennis Hopper is the last independent trucker in the solar system. Everyone else has signed up with the Company for the smart uniforms and the benefits, but John Canyon owns his own rig, hauls genetically engineered square pigs between space stations and answers to nobody. Then he gets stiffed on a payday, takes a no-questions-asked load bound for Earth, and is told it’s 5,000 s...

Universal wanted a monster movie. Daiei wanted the next Godzilla. Both studios got handed something considerably stranger by writers who had other ideas, and the two films that came out of it sit either side of the Pacific doing almost exactly the same job. It Came from Outer Space lands in June 1953, directed by Jack Arnold, from a story by Ray Bradbury and a screenplay credite...

Two years after Generations left the Enterprise-D's saucer in a field on Veridian III, the Next Generation crew finally get a film to themselves. No Kirk, no Nexus, no half-and-half uniforms. So what do they do with the freedom? Bring back the Borg, chase them to 2063, and let Jean-Luc Picard lose his temper in a way seven years of television never allowed. This is the one peopl...

A flying saucer lands on a baseball field in Washington. A man walks down the ramp holding a gift, says he has come in peace with goodwill, and a nervous soldier shoots him inside a minute. Seventy-five years later we are still working through what that scene set up. The Day the Earth Stood Still arrives in September 1951, five months after The Thing from Another World, and does...