Awesome Science Fiction

Prepare to be animated! The Nerdist and Rug Burn envision what Doctor Who might look like if it were an anime. How ever will the Doctor and Amy defeat Davros’ ultimate deadly weapon? Timey-wimey-super-combo! Activate!

CJ Johnson’s short film is set in a world in which people with special abilities are tracked and hunted down by government agents. While it draws inspiration from X-Men, it’s decidedly more stripped-down in its approach.

Drawing obvious inspiration from Blade Runner and Minority Report ArtFX’s short science fiction film tells the story of a police officer who is forced into action by his technological augmentations, albeit with dire consequences.

His darkly detailed 3D compositions are striking and imaginative, while reminiscent of the best work of H.R. Giger. Tomasz Strzałkowski has created imagery for a number of video games, but his personal works are truly amazing.

A special single-disc Blu-ray release featuring five episodes which set the Star Trek franchise in motion – with the introductions of Pike, Spock, Kirk, Khan, the Klingons – and those troublesome Tribbles.

(NSFW: Language) A young man loses track of his little sister, and must go to extraordinary lengths to try and find her. A science-fiction mystery that asks more questions than it answers. Directed by Dan Gaud.

A striking short film about a distraught man holed up with a gun, and his encounter with a medical robot sent to negotiate with him. By Warp, Film4 and Shynola. A prologue for a feature-length adaptation of The Red Men.

Filmmaker Olivier Mamet’s short movie offers a look at a mysterious and deadly outbreak as it quickly migrates across the globe. Not exactly the most uplifting film you’ll see today, but a well-crafted one nonetheless.

(NSFW: Language) 1A4Studio gives the sci-fi classic Aliens the speedrun treatment. The studio has gotten so good at this, you have to watch the short multiple times to appreciate all the references and jokes. Mmmm so fresh!

Despite the fact that not every Star Trek movie is a classic, editor Nick Bosworth makes them look that way in his 7-minute tribute which features footage from each and every Trek flick released in theaters to date.

Set for FOX’s Fall 2013 lineup, it stars Karl Urban as a troubled cop who is forced to work with the department’s mandatory new “synthetic” officers. From J.H. Wyman (Fringe) and J.J. Abrams (What is he not involved in?)

Scientists perform a controversial experiment in return for vast knowledge. Project Kronos uses our weakness for space travel to smuggle a moral. It’s a sci-fi equivalent of Louis C.K.’s take on human greatness.

The adaptation of Orson Scott Card’s popular and controversial sci-fi novel. Ender’s Game is set in a distant future where humans barely survived two attacks from an alien race, causing them to train children for war.

Captain Kirk rallies his crew to battle, the nameless villain is really bitter about something and the Starship Enterprise looks like its going to meet its maker in the latest trailer for Star Trek: Into Darkness.

Neill Blomkamp’s first film since the awesome District 9 puts the elite on an idyllic world with no disease, poverty, or war. Everyone else is stuck here on good old, terrible Earth. Stars Matt Damon and Jodie Foster. Out 8/9/13.

A security guard at a movie studio is granted the perfect prank. Just when there are reports of a strange creature and the local drive-in is showing a horror movie, he stumbles upon a monster costume. Then he gets stuck in it.

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(SPOILERS) The international trailer for Star Trek: Into Darkness sheds light on one of the movie’s most important story points – the identity of Benedict Cumberbatch’s vengeful character.

Sorry Benedict Cumberbatch fans, but the newest teaser for Star Trek: Into Darkness is all about the cocky and confident Capt. Kirk, and the messy situations that he gets himself (and his crew) into.

The latest trailer for M. Night Shyamalan’s sci-fi flick After Earth sheds light on the protagonists’ strained relationship, and the hostile post-apocalyptic Earth they crash land on. The movie’s website is cool too.

An award-winning short film by Eli Sasich that pays tribute to classic science fiction – a story of a lost, drifting spaceship whose brain becomes self-aware, and builds a robotic body for itself.

An award-winning CGI film by Grzegorz Jonkajtys about an alien tasked with cataloging species around the universe, and his brief stop here on planet Earth to scoop up a human for his collection.

The latest trailer for Joe Kosinski’s post-apocalyptic sci-fi thriller pits Jack Harper (Tom Cruise) against killer drones as he searches for the secrets of our abandoned planet amongst his scattered memories.