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Yeah, that's a good choice too; I liked it as a kid. It's a slight bit on the scary side and with some violence, but not too bad.

Unlike fantasy, it's hard to find decent family-friendly SF movies. You have Star Wars ep. IV of course, but I'm guessing the kids have already seen this enough. A few other ideas:

Titan A.E.
The ...

Were they the Alan Dean Foster novelizations of the animated show or the James Blish novelizations of the original series? (Original draft scrips, in some cases, which resulted in a lot of strange di ...

I also like the added back story in the "Wrath of Khan" novel about Sasvik and David. I think they even dealt with Saavik being half Romulan?
Yes, thanks for the memory jog. That was some ...

Gotta watch out for those radioactive space typhoons.

I must have read the Wrath of Khan novelization, because I seem to recall a graphic description of Khan's fatal injuries as he struggles to spi ...

I don't think my comic would work very well as a movie, especially a live-action one. You'd have to change too much, to the point of not even being worth it.

It might work as animation, but in that ...

I guess that's another point worth mentioning, although we have talked about it in a previous program -- that for storytelling purposes, there may be a limit as to just how alien you really want to ma ...

Is this Chevalier a real guy? Because his website looks like a gag.

I don't think making aliens "alien" is very hard... all you have to do is choose the opposite of every human characteristic and you got a pretty strange alien. However, making aliens that ar ...

Even if you could record everything a person says and does, you're still talking about an AI programmed to simulate a person, and not the person himself. Most socially functioning people do not say ev ...

Rimmer was not an "uploaded" personality... he was an AI created by the computer based on external recordings of his behavior and dialogue, and available records. I'm not a Voyager expert, b ...

I bought the DVD of the CGI series (Marauders) and didn't really care for it. I thought the first movie was fine for what it was... a gory bug-shootin' fest. I haven't any interest in sampling the two ...

Twins is science fiction?

I was thinking of the whodunnit in the purest sense, where all there really is to the story is the details of the crime to be solved. I haven't read the Asimov android-detective stories, but from what ...

Blade Runner is one of those films that's not one of my personal favorites, but I think you have to admit is was very important in terms of its impact on the genre. Films like Ghost in the Shell and T ...