Movie Moxie Podcast 14: Down Terrace, Monsters, Skyline & Unstoppable plus Genre Look at Science Fiction Films

On this weeks episode of the Movie Moxie Podcast Shannon takes on lots of new releases including the UK family crime drama Down Terrace, Tony Scott train time with Unstoppable and then goes crazy for Sci Fi with Monsters, Skyline and exploring science fiction as a genre.

Show Notes

• DVD Winner: John A! Congratulations John A!
• Reviews: Down Terrace
• DVD pick of the week: Don't Look Back
• All of this week's DVD releases

Science Fiction as a Genre Show Notes

• Science Fiction Film defined by Wikipedia "Science fiction film is a film genre that uses science fiction: speculative, science-based depictions of phenomena that are not necessarily accepted by mainstream science, such as extraterrestrial life forms, alien worlds, ESP, and time travel, often along with futuristic elements such as spacecraft, robots, or other technologies. Science fiction films have often been used to focus on political or social issues, and to explore philosophical issues like the human condition. In many cases, tropes derived from written science fiction may be used by filmmakers ignorant of or at best indifferent to the standards of scientific plausibility and plot logic to which written science fiction is traditionally held."

Science Fiction Film Sub-genres & Film Recommendations:

• ESP - I disagree on this, I'd put ESP under Supernatural Films
• Extraterrestrial Life Forms, Aliens & Alien Worlds: Fire in the Sky, X-Files films, The Day the Earth Stood Still, The Man Who Fell to Earth, Predator, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Contact, The Abyss, Sphere, Pitch Black, The Thing from Another World and The Thing
• Spacecrafts & Space Travel: 2001: A Space Odyssey, 2010, Solyaris / Солярис and Solaris, Dune, Capricorn One, Armageddon and Red Planet
• Technology & Robots: Runaway and The Matrix
• Time Travel: The Terminator, Back to the Future, The Time Machine and Primer
• Futuristic: Blade Runner, Alphaville, The Running Man and all of the Star Trek films
• Science Gone Wrong (mutation, biohazards, etc): C.H.U.D., Growth, Them!, The Host, Rogue, The Stuff, Jurassic Park, The Crazies, Outbreak, and The Andromeda Strain
• 70’s Sci Fi: Logan’s Run, Soylent Green, Silent Running, Planet of the Apes (1968)
• 2010 Science Fiction Films: Monsters, Skyline, The Book of Eli, Inception, Iron Man 2, Mr. Nobody and Splice
• 2009 Science Fiction: Star Trek, Moon, The Fourth Kind, Race to Witch Mountain, The RoadTerminator Salvation
• Western Themed Sci Fi: Serenity, West World and Outland
• Science Fiction/Horror films: Event Horizon and Pandorum
• Shannon's Fave's: The Terminator, The Thing, Moon, Cargo, Contact, Star Trek with The Original Series Cast (Star Trek: The Motion Picture, Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, Star Trek III: The Search for Spock, Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, Star Trek V: The Final Frontier and Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country) and Donnie Darko
• List of all Series Fiction Films reviewed

Last minute additions and reader recommendations: Starship Troopers, Timecop, 12 Monkeys, Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure, Peggy Sue Got Married, Kate & Leopold, Time Crimes, 13 Going on 30, Hot Tub Time Machine, The Lakehouse, Time Bandits, Deja Vu and Somewhere in Time.

Series purposefully left out:
Alien series & Star Wars Trilogies (more on this next week!)

Zombie Zombie The Thing Hommage (watch only if you've seen The Thing!):


Ender's Game Fan-Made Trailer (Watch only if you've read Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card)

IMDb Top 50 Science Fiction (as of November 15, 2010) 1. Inception (2010)
2. Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
3. Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977)
4. The Matrix (1999)
5. Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)
6. Alien (1979)
7. WALL·E (2008)
8. A Clockwork Orange (1971)
9. Aliens (1986)
10. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)
11. Metropolis (1927)
12. Back to the Future (1985)
13. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
14. Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983)
15. Blade Runner (1982)
16. District 9 (2009)
17. Avatar (2009)
18. Donnie Darko (2001)
19. The War Game (1965)
20. Ivan Vasilievich: Back to the Future (1973)
21. The Thing (1982)
22. The Terminator (1984)
23. Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (1984)
24. Twelve Monkeys (1995)
25. V for Vendetta (2006)
26. Star Trek (2009)
27. Stalker (1979)
28. Children of Men (2006)
29. Neon Genesis Evangelion: The End of Evangelion (1997)
30. Frankenstein (1931)
31. Planet of the Apes (1968)
32. The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)
33. Bride of Frankenstein (1935)
34. Young Frankenstein (1974)
35. Brazil (1985)
36. The Man from Earth (2007)
37. Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)
38. The Face of Another (1966)
39. Moon (2009)
40. Solyaris (1972)
41. Kin-Dza-Dza (1986)
42. Iron Man (2008)
43. The Iron Giant (1999)
44. E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
45. The Girl Who Leapt Through Time (2006)
46. Serenity (2005)
47. Jurassic Park (1993)
48. Akira (1988)
49. Abre los ojos (1997)
50. Sexmission (1984)

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