It’s such a good list, you’ll want to clone it. The result is a list as expansive as the universe a definitive selection housing all-time classics like Blade Runner to leftfield entries such as Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. We then threw in a few Time Out writers just for good measure.
In order to choose the 100 best sci-fi movies, then, we decided that it was only right to enlist the assistance of a team of turbocharged experts, including Nobel Prize-winning geneticist Sir Paul Nurse, film director Guillermo del Toro, and the mind behind Game of Thrones, George RR Martin. How about an algorithm that can predict murders? Perhaps not as far-fetched as it initially seemed. Want killer space robots hellbent on destroying the galaxy? Go for it. Of course, the genre gives filmmakers a chance to get creative, too, providing them with a long leash to be as inventive and innovative as they like. Films like Ex-Machina and WALL-E interrogate our humanity’s ethics and our propensity for destruction, while Andrei Tarkovsky’s Solaris and Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey provide poetic meditations on grief, ambition and evolution. Those things are cool, don’t get us wrong, but some of the best sci-fi also acts as an opportunity to teach us about foibles, flaws, heart and resilience of humanity. He’d been beaten over the head with a rock and strangled a pack of cigarettes was stuffed in his mouth.Science-fiction movies aren’t just an opportunity to show off the vibrating hum and power of laser swords, the mammoth size of spaceships or incredible alien civilisations. Two days later, hunters spotted Cook’s body, wrapped in a torn blue blanket, under a bridge in a small town outside Seattle. She had been raped and shot in the back of the head. 24, Van Cuylenborg’s partially clothed body, hands bound by a zip tie, was found in a roadside ditch 75 miles north of Seattle. The next day they didn’t show up at the heating-supply store, nor did they return home that night as planned. Van Cuylenborg, 18, holds a walk-like-an-Egyptian pose Cook, two years older and a head taller, looks off to the side half-smiling, his dark hair falling over one eye. A blurry photo snapped at the time shows them beside the bronze Ford van they took.
The young couple planned to make an overnight jaunt of it. across the Strait of Juan de Fuca, another across Puget Sound, and between them a winding coastal drive through evergreen forests and fishing towns. Saanich and Seattle are a little more than 100 miles apart, but the trip takes almost five hours: a ferry into the U.S. 18, 1987, Jay Cook and Tanya Van Cuylenborg left Saanich, B.C., their hometown, to pick up some furnace equipment in Seattle for Cook’s father.
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