Oblivion

It is the year 2077. An alien invasion has caused the destruction of the moon. Men have fought with what they had and have not hesitated to use nuclear bombs. Planet earth was sacrificed to save the human race. The remaining few have moved to Titan, a moon of Saturn, while a handful of men have remain on Earth supervising giant converters/mills that extract all the energy from the oceans and seas. 

Looper

Clearly, the time travel issue is one of the most attractive that can be explored by fiction, to bring characters from different periods together, to witness to the life of someone or simply to address the perennial debate over whether changing something in the past creates a different timeline (something reflected brilliantly in an episode of the Simpsons by the way). However, in "Looper", time travel is a catalyst for the real story and not the backbone of it.

Prometheus

When the archaeologist "Elizabeth Shaw" (Noomi Rapace) and his fellow "Charlie Holloway" (Logan Marshall-Green) discover a pattern in several hieroglyphs around the Earth, the two embark on an expedition with another group of scientists to a distant planet in order to find the origins of humanity. What they find, ironically, could trigger the end of it.

Donnie Darko

Donnie is gifted with great intelligence and imagination. After escaping from the hands of almost certain death due to fall on his house of the engine of an airplane, he begins to experience hallucinations that take him to act as he had never done and to discover an unusual world around him.

The Fly

"The Fly" is a gem of the eighties, one of Cronenberg's most famous works and somehow better than the original one from 1958.

Men in Black...and 3!

Men in Black is the absolute trash that turns into cult. This is not a critic, first of all because I personally like it a lot and, second, because such an ability deserves a Bravo!

This third and probably last part hits the theaters 15 years after the first one and 10 after the second part. This trilogy has all the ingredients of a successful trash/cult.

The Avengers

I do not read american comic-books, but I usually enjoy the super hero movies (yes, I even liked Green Lantern). This one tops them all.

Sure, you need to remember what kind of movie this is: it is not going to win any palm or bear or lion or oscar. It is a mean of entertainment, meant to entertain. With this in mind, this movie gets a 10 for goal achievement.

In Time

A science fiction story, but a quite innovative and analytical one. You could say it is a way of seeing our lives in which our time is not just stuck in our hands. On the other hand, this film could be related to the phrase "money buys everything". I understand its difficulty in attracting an audience, because  even bigger movies like Inception had the same risk. However, I think that in this case the main scepticism may come from the presence of Justin Timberlake and the unknown director Andrew Niccol.

Chronicle

To ask yourself "what would you do?" Is probably not the best you can do because, to be honest as we should be,  having an extra gift, extra to the ones that we already have, many human beings on this planet would go after someone for revenge or try to find a way to benefit from this new gift. The success of a film like “Chronicle” relies on the power to talk about common things but in the language of a fantastic film.

Three boys with different, contrasting personalities  get together when involuntarily they acquire the ability to master telekinesis. This turns them into something less than invincible, as if during adolescence you realize you can achieve your own ideas and  feel a sense that you can succeed at everything that we do.

Back to the Future

Back to the Future is my all-time favorite movie or, better, movie trilogy. Marty McFly and Dr. Emmet Brown lead us in an incredible adventure without moving an inch away from sunny Hill Valley, California. At least, they don’t move in space, but they move a hell of a lot in time. Traveling on their trusted Delorean, thanks to the mythical flux capacitor, they end up in 1955, in 2015, in an alternative 1985 (their present) and in the far west…sometimes willingly sometimes by accident. Their aim is usually to fix what they have messed up during their “time trip” and go back to the future, which is 1985.

Contagion

The most recent natural disaster that we have had in real life is the tsunami and the subsequent nuclear disaster happened in Japan in 2011. We cannot yet safely weight what impact all this had not only in the Japanese economy and its society but around the world too.