The Ancient Future of A.I Film Reviews by R.D Francis
by rdfranciscritic | created - 2 months ago | updated - 2 months ago | PublicReviews of outdated, computer-based films. Look under "critic reviews" for B&S About Movies, for each.
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1. Alphaville (1965)
Not Rated | 99 min | Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
A U.S. secret agent is sent to the distant space city of Alphaville where he must find a missing person and free the city from its tyrannical ruler.
Director: Jean-Luc Godard | Stars: Eddie Constantine, Anna Karina, Akim Tamiroff, Valérie Boisgel
Votes: 27,600 | Gross: $0.05M
2. The Brain (1988)
R | 94 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
A psychologist with an increasingly popular TV show brainwashes his audiences using a giant living brain. A mischievous high school student is sent to the psychologist's institute, and becomes determined to expose him.
Director: Ed Hunt | Stars: Tom Bresnahan, Cynthia Preston, David Gale, George Buza
Votes: 3,517
3. Brainscan (1994)
R | 96 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
A teenager is part of an interactive video game where he kills innocent victims. Later, the murders become real.
Director: John Flynn | Stars: Edward Furlong, Frank Langella, T. Ryder Smith, Amy Hargreaves
Votes: 12,910 | Gross: $4.26M
4. Brain Twisters (1991)
R | 91 min | Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
Employees of a software company discover a conspiracy to use the games made by the company to control the thoughts of its customers.
Director: Jerry Sangiuliano | Stars: Farrah Forke, Terry Londeree, Joe Lombardo, Donna Bostany
Votes: 537
5. BrainWaves (1982)
R | 77 min | Sci-Fi, Thriller
After a traffic accident Kaylie is in coma for months. Her doctors want to try a new procedure on her: to regain her consciousness, they stimulate her brain with neural patterns of a woman ... See full summary »
Director: Ulli Lommel | Stars: Keir Dullea, Suzanna Love, Vera Miles, Ryan Seitz
Votes: 526
6. Colossus: The Forbin Project (1970)
M | 100 min | Sci-Fi, Thriller
Thinking this will prevent war, the US government gives an impenetrable supercomputer total control over launching nuclear missiles. But what the computer does with the power is unimaginable to its creators.
Director: Joseph Sargent | Stars: Eric Braeden, Susan Clark, Gordon Pinsent, William Schallert
Votes: 10,148
7. The Creation of the Humanoids (1962)
Approved | 75 min | Sci-Fi
In a post holocaust society, robots take it on their own to help the dying human race by giving them android bodies.
Director: Wesley Barry | Stars: Don Megowan, Erica Elliott, Frances McCann, Don Doolittle
Votes: 1,521
8. Circuitry Man (1990)
R | 93 min | Action, Comedy, Sci-Fi
In a future where most humans have moved underground to escape the pollution, one of the few pleasures left is a kind of narcotic in the form of chips which can be plugged directly into the... See full summary »
Director: Steven Lovy | Stars: Jim Metzler, Dana Wheeler-Nicholson, Lu Leonard, Vernon Wells
Votes: 1,009
9. Plughead Rewired: Circuitry Man II (1994)
R | 98 min | Sci-Fi
In the backdrop of Earths polluted future a female FBI agent removes Danner, a pleasure android from an asylum in order to coerce him into helping her hunt down the criminal psychopath ... See full summary »
Directors: Robert Lovy, Steven Lovy | Stars: Vernon Wells, Deborah Shelton, Jim Metzler, Dennis Christopher
Votes: 470
10. The Colours of Infinity (1995 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 52 min | Documentary
Arthur C. Clarke presents this unusual documentary on the mathematical discovery of the Mandelbrot Set (M-Set) in the visually spectacular world of fractal geometry. This show relates the ... See full summary »
Director: Nigel Lesmoir-Gordon | Stars: Arthur C. Clarke, Michael Barnsley, Stephen Hawking, Benoît B. Mandelbrot
Votes: 548
11. Defense Play (1988)
PG | 88 min | Action, Drama
Professor Vandemeer works on a secret project for the US-Air-Force called DART: a very small helicopter for scouting and defense. When he gets killed, Colonel Denton gets under suspicion. ... See full summary »
Director: Monte Markham | Stars: David Oliver, Susan Ursitti, Monte Markham, Eric Gilliom
Votes: 155
12. Demon Seed (1977)
Approved | 94 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
A scientist creates Proteus--an organic super computer with artificial intelligence which becomes obsessed with human beings, and in particular the creator's wife.
Director: Donald Cammell | Stars: Julie Christie, Fritz Weaver, Gerrit Graham, Berry Kroeger
Votes: 10,002
13. Disclosure (1994)
R | 128 min | Drama, Thriller
A computer specialist is sued for sexual harassment by a former lover turned boss who initiated the act forcefully, which threatens both his career and his personal life.
Director: Barry Levinson | Stars: Michael Douglas, Demi Moore, Donald Sutherland, Caroline Goodall
Votes: 54,399 | Gross: $83.02M
14. Evolver (1995)
R | 91 min | Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
A teenage boy gets a robotic opponent after winning a laser tag contest; however the robot is not what it seems!
Director: Mark Rosman | Stars: Ethan Embry, Cassidy Rae, Nassira Nicola, Chance Quinn
Votes: 1,360
15. Gog (1954)
Approved | 83 min | Drama, Horror, Romance
A security agent investigates sabotage and murder at a secret underground laboratory, home of two experimental robots.
Director: Herbert L. Strock | Stars: Richard Egan, Constance Dowling, Herbert Marshall, John Wengraf
Votes: 1,622
16. Hide and Seek (1984 TV Movie)
60 min | Drama
Before WAR GAMES there was Canada's HIDE & SEEK. Watch this and you will see how close the movies are. High school computer wiz kid's program accidently hooks into the main frame computer ... See full summary »
Director: René Bonnière | Stars: Bob Martin, Ingrid Veninger, Dave Patrick, John Friesen
Votes: 57
17. Interface (1984)
88 min | Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
A group of strange beings at a master computer control room use their equipment to kill people by remote control.
Director: Andy Anderson | Stars: John S. Davies, Lauren Lane, Matthew Sacks, Michael Hendrix
Votes: 181
18. Looker (1981)
PG | 93 min | Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Three of four models, who had plastic surgery done by Larry after a computed list, are dead. Neither the cops nor Larry believe they're suicides. Larry investigates and stays with the fourth model. Who's behind the lists and murders?
Director: Michael Crichton | Stars: Albert Finney, James Coburn, Susan Dey, Leigh Taylor-Young
Votes: 6,188 | Gross: $3.28M
19. Microworld (1980)
15 min | Documentary, Short
Director: Paul Cohen | Star: William Shatner
Votes: 6
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21. The Music of the Spheres (1984)
72 min | Sci-Fi
Set in the not-too-distant future, when the existing world economy has collapsed, and the new city-states are controlled by computers, many of which require a kind of telepathic linkage ... See full summary »
Director: G. Philip Jackson | Stars: Anne Dansereau, Peter Brikmanis, Jacques Couture, Ken Lemaire
Votes: 104
22. Prime Risk (1985)
PG-13 | 98 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A female engineer, with the assistance of her pilot-wannabe male friend, discovers a way to rip off ATM machines, but in doing so stumbles upon a plot to destroy the U.S. monetary system.
Director: Michael Farkas | Stars: Lee Montgomery, Toni Hudson, Sam Bottoms, Clu Gulager
Votes: 342
23. R.U.R. (1938 TV Movie)
35 min | Drama, Sci-Fi
Technological progress, in the shape of Rossum's Universal Robots, threatens to dominate and wipe out mankind.
Stars: Derek Bond, Harvey Braban, William Lyon Brown, Cherry Cottrell
Votes: 19
24. Webmaster (1998)
R | 102 min | Thriller, Sci-Fi
JB is the city's best attacker, who lives a carefully organized life in and outside the network. After hacking into the most powerful of all domains the Stoiser domain, JB thought that the ... See full summary »
Director: Thomas Borch Nielsen | Stars: Lars Bom, Puk Scharbau, Jørgen Kiil, Karin Rørbeck
Votes: 1,170
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25. Terminal Entry (1987)
R | 98 min | Action, Thriller
The USA are attacked by a large group of well organized terrorists who communicate through a computer network via satellite. A bunch of highschool kids has hacked the password and gained ... See full summary »
Director: John Kincade | Stars: Paul L. Smith, Yaphet Kotto, Heidi Helmer, Patrick Labyorteaux
Votes: 149
26. Y2K (1999 TV Movie)
TV-14 | 93 min | Sci-Fi, Thriller
It's millennium eve. At the stroke of midnight the Y2K computer bug kicks in, causing widespread chaos in the US.
Director: Dick Lowry | Stars: Ken Olin, Joe Morton, Kate Vernon, Lauren Tom
Votes: 425
27. Y2K (1999)
R | 106 min | Action, Thriller
On the eve of the new millenium, the American military are alerted of a long missing nuclear missile hidden deep in the jungle which is set to go off in January 2000, due to the millenium bug. They must race against time to stop it.
Director: Richard Pepin | Stars: Louis Gossett Jr., Jaimz Woolvett, Ed O'Ross, Sarah Chalke
Votes: 611
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