Awesome Sci-fi

A lone security guard on the night shift at a mysterious facility sees an intruder and proceeds to investigate. Not since The Usual Suspects has a coffee cup been so crucial to the plot as in this archetypal sci-fi thriller.

Writer/director Ramin Serry’s short flick is a story about a father and his time-traveling grown-up son who has to come back in time to kill the android sent to kill him as a baby. A spot-on parody of confusing time-bending sci-fi plots.

The second trailer for the critically-acclaimed sci-fi thriller Ex Machina teases us with intense moments and vivid contrasts between nature and man-made objects, as two men and a female A.I. play tester-testee musical chairs.

A 10-episode space opera based on the eponymous book series. Set in a world where man has colonized the Solar System, The Expanse is about the tensions between the colonized planets and the people caught in between.

An off-world detective is investigating a missing research vessel. He finds the ship but it appears to have skipped time. Sadly, this is more of a concept than a complete film and can’t stand on its own. Very interesting though.

The second trailer for Neill Blomkamp’s Chappie reveals more action-packed scenes as well as the hero’s origin. It appears that the self-aware and emotional robot is based on a Police droid. In other words, he’s RoboCop in reverse.

A middle-aged man returns to his childhood home to verify a traumatizing event from his early life, when an unidentified flying object crashed on their farm. Josh Tanner’s The Landing is as good as short films get.

A journalist meets with a man who’s been sending him accurate predictions, claiming to be a time traveler. James Cooper’s short won’t wow you with effects or action, but Eric Johnson’s portrayal of the mysterious figure makes up for it.

The sequel to the 2012 sci-fi comedy about Nazis on the Moon, Iron Sky The Coming Race ditches the final frontier for a hidden civilization underneath the Earth… where there are Nazis. And Nazi dinosaurs. What?

From director Neill Blomkamp (District 9, Elysium) comes a drama about a robot child created specifically to learn, adapt and feel like a human being. Starring Dev Patel, Sharlto Copley, Sigourney Weaver and Hugh Jackman.

A programmer wins a prize to meet his company’s reclusive CEO. But he ends up becoming a pawn in his boss’ experiment with artificial intelligence. Written and directed by Alex Garland (28 Days Later, Sunshine). International trailer here.

After almost a year of tweaking, Dirk Loechel has released the final major version of his enormous spaceship size comparison chart. It’s by no means definitive, but at least Dirk included the International Space Station for scale.

The Signal is a sci-fi thriller about three MIT students who experience bizarre events en route to meeting a rival hacker. When Morpheus in a hazmat suit is compelled to ask you if you’re from Earth, you know stuff ain’t right.

A young man with amnesia finds himself in an mysterious prison with other teenage boys. The prison is surrounded by a gigantic maze. The Maze Runner is an adaptation of James Dashner’s eponymous young adult novel.

Simon Stålenhag loves to paint robots and futuristic structures sitting in otherwise normal suburbs and countrysides. They look like more peaceful versions of Borderlands’ Pandora. You can buy prints of his art on RedBubble.

(NSFW/Gore) In the distant future, humans have become immortal cyborgs but are unable to reproduce. Takahide Hori’s Junk Head 1 is a funny and horrifying masterpiece of stop-motion. For the love of God, let’s fund the sequel.