Sci-Fi
Rod Lott
In the opening scene of "Dinocroc vs. Supergator," the two title creatures bust out of the Drake Game Preserve research facility on the Hawaiian island of Kauai where they're being held.

Sci-Fi
Rod Lott
So many reasons exist to see “Oblivion,” a 1994 genre mishmash now seeing a long-overdue release courtesy of Shout! Factory. Here’s why:

Sci-Fi
Rod Lott
Roger Corman threw his might behind two "Star Wars" rip-offs, the Italian pickup "Star Crash" and his own, $2-million production shot on a lumberyard, "Battle Beyond the Stars," now making its Blu-ray debut in a 30th-anniversary edition.

Sci-Fi
Rod Lott
After a near-pointless, 14-minute prologue — in short, World War III done happened, y'all! — the 1977 sci-fi schlock epic "Damnation Alley" finally starts moving. In circles, as it turns out, but moving nonetheless.

Sci-Fi
Rod Lott
Most of the creatures on tap in "Mega Python vs. Gatoroid" are CGI creations, yet the filmmakers didn't even bother to insert them in the parts of the frame where the actors were looking.

Sci-Fi
Rod Lott
In the tradition of Frankenstein, The Fly, Hulk and your last nightmare that involved a toolbox comes "Tetsuo: The Bullet Man," the overdue third piece in Shinya Tsukamoto's twisted trilogy that began with 1989's "Tetsuo: The Iron Man."

Sci-Fi
Rod Lott
When a good friend first introduced me to Stanley Kubrick's 1971 masterpiece, "A Clockwork Orange," via VHS tape in 1988, I was really bothered by it.

Sci-Fi
Rod Lott
Jessica Drew — aka Spider-Woman — is having a crisis of faith when “Spider-Woman: Agent of S.W.O.R.D.” opens.

Sci-Fi
Rod Lott
While neither film in the “Giant Robot Action Pack” is technically good, I’d rather watch either of them for 24 hours straight — wait, make that 48 — than sit through a single viewing of any of the “Transformers” franchise.

Sci-Fi
Rod Lott
Even if June 17’s big-screen “Green Lantern” disappoints the comic-book hero’s hardcore fans, at least they’ll have “Green Lantern: Emerald Knights” to hold in their hearts.

Sci-Fi
Rod Lott
“Probe” applies sci-fi principles to the “Mission: Impossible” template, making for a highly pleasurable, if dated, 100 minutes.

Sci-Fi
Rod Lott
From Alaska's melting glaciers — "yeah, right," scoffs Sen. Jim Inhofe — comes "Dinoshark"!

Sci-Fi
Rod Lott
Of Charlton Heston's unofficial trilogy of post-apocalyptic sci-fi — "Planet of the Apes," "The Omega Man" and "Soylent Green" — the new-to-Blu-ray latter is easily the weakest leg, yet ironically, the most relevant today.

Sci-Fi
Rod Lott
One year after Ridley Scott’s “Alien” terrified 1979 moviegoers, “Alien 2” presumably baffled them.

Sci-Fi
Rod Lott
Two movies I never thought I’d see remastered for Blu-ray, much less on the same disc?