ALTERED STATES
From Paddy Chayefsky and Ken Russell, a weird and wonderful sci fi freak-out with something for everybody
CHERRY 2000
Above-average Maxploitation madness from 1986
THE VIEW FROM THE BRIDGE
A terrifically entertaining Hollywood memoir by novelist/screenwriter/director Nicholas Meyer
TRON
A rare example of Disney, the most risk-averse studio in Hollywood, taking a chance on material that’s defiantly unique (borderline experimental, even) in both conception and execution
ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER, Antifa and Brett Easton Ellis
As of October 2025, the major movie-related controversy is over Paul Thomas Anderson’s ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER
EXPLORERS
In the summer of 1985, when it seemed like every movie release involved teenagers engaged in elaborate adventure/sci fi scenarios, EXPLORERS was the odd film out
SOLARBABIES
I’ll confess I was hoping this 1986 “LITTLE RASCALS of the future” bummer would improve with age. It hasn’t.
THE EXTREMES
There’s an interesting novel lurking in THE EXTREMES by Christopher Priest, but it never quite makes its way to the surface
Faust on Acid
The Faust legend reconfigured as avant-garde science fiction? It’s an approach that, in European hands, works far better than you might expect
MYSTERIOUS PLANET
One of the absolute cheapest sci fi films of 1982, a very free adaptation of Jules Verne’s MYSTERIOUS ISLAND