THE BEST Sci-fi

Inspiration can come from anywhere, but you don’t necessarily have to admit where it came from. Otherwise, this not-Transformers has enough eye candy to be a good renter or Netflix filler.

Three teens gain neat telekenetic powers, but power does not a hero make. Will they be more Anakin than Luke? More Eddie Brock than Peter Parker? More Dark Phoenix than, uhm, Phoenix?

Director Alex Albrecht proves that you don’t need a big budget or top-notch special effects to make a good sci-fi flick. It’s the human element that makes a movie memorable, even if it’s about robots.

The answers to how it began start in 1988, when young sisters Katie and Kristi befriend an invisible entity in their home, in Henry Joost and Ariel Schulman’s Paranormal Activity 3.

Writer and director Nacho Vigalondo, who made the headache-inducing Timecrimes, is back with another sci-fi thriller with Extraterrestrial. One night stands just got a whole lot creepier.

(NSFW Language) (Spoilers) Michael Hobson made a massive (about five mouse wheel scrolls!) timeline showing what’s in store in the coming years, if movies and TV shows are to be believed.

Matthew Buchholz re-imagines American history with his Alternate Histories prints, inserting aliens, robots, zombies and other fantasy and science fiction staples in iconic images and events.

A young man must figure out a way to bring down a system where time is money – literally – and is forced to go on the run from a corrupt police force known as time keepers, in Andrew Niccol’s In Time.

Watch Daniel Craig go toe-to-toe with spaceships, exchange witty banter with Harrison Ford and shut up an annoying cellmate like a boss in the latest trailer for Jon Favreau’s Cowboys & Aliens.

The latest teaser for the upcoming movie Iron Sky features indoctrination, invasion and space airships (there’s no other way to describe them, really). The Moon Nazi invasion begins on 4/4/12.

All four of the “Meet the Characters” trailers for X-Men: First Class, featuring Xavier and Lensherr’s “gifted youngsters” – Banshee, Havok, Beast and Mystique. Collated by YouTube user rareru12.

Michael Bay takes wraps off the full trailer for Transformers 3: Dark of the Moon, revealing more than ever as the Decepticons take on the Autobots (and mankind) and make a mess of Chicago.

Mike Joos has a series of prints featuring popular characters both real and fictional riding their very own custom bikes – with a couple of exceptions. You can also order the prints as T-shirts.

We’re still excited about this quirky action pic with unlikely foes in an unlikely setting and an unlikely cast. Daniel Craig, Harrison Ford and Olivia Wilde star. The only thing missing: zombies.

Duncan Jones’ sci-fi thriller Source Code was screened to positive reviews at SXSW; we can now check out the first five minutes of the movie and see what all the excitement is about for ourselves.

Transformers in the ring? We will find out as Hugh Jackman stars in Shawn Levy’s Real Steel, a boxing drama set in the near future where 2,000-pound robot gladiators that look like humans do battle.

A UFO-centric recount of the Battle of Los Angeles, a strange event that occurred on Feb. 24, 1942 in which unidentified aircraft were spotted over LA, prompting a barrage of anti-aircraft artillery.

X-Men: First Class charts the epic beginning of the X-Men saga, and reveals a secret history: Prof X and Magneto were not archenemies at first – they were, in fact, the closest of friends. Coming 06/11.

Angels & Airwaves’ Tom DeLonge (formerly of Blink 182) produced and created the music for William Eubank’s Love, a film about an astronaut who becomes stranded out in orbit, alone.

Lushly directed and well executed, Ben Craig’s Modern Times was made with more love than money and will transport you to another dimension, in less than four minutes. (Thanks Landon!)

David Cronenberg’s creepy, provocative 1983 horror film gets the HD treatment in Criterion’s new release. The moral of the story – you can love your television – just don’t love your television.

The first trailer for this explosive sci-fi/war blockbuster looked pretty thrilling. Now see some of the back-story that leads up to the great L.A. alien invasion of 2011.

The giant octopus wasn’t able to take down the high-flying Megalodon. Will the Crocosaurus put up a better – i.e. funnier – fight? We think part 3 should be Mega Shark vs. Sharktopus.

Daniel Craig and Harrison Ford get ready to duke it out in the wild West when the unexpected happens. Aliens invade. Huh, wha? Yep. Iron Man’s Jon Favreau directs, Steven Spielberg produces.