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The Last Starfighter is a 1984 American space opera film directed by  Nick Castle. The film tells the story of Alex Rogan (Lance Guest), a  teenager recruited by an alien defense force to fight in an interstellar  war. It also features Robert Preston, Dan O'Herlihy, Catherine Mary  Stewart, Norman Snow, and Kay E. Kuter.  The Last Starfighter, along  with Disney's Tron, has the distinction of being one of cinema's  earliest films to use extensive "real-life" computer-generated imagery  (CGI) to depict its many starships, environments and battle scenes.

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55th Anniversary of Star Trek! Star Trek: The Motion Picture is a 1979 American science fiction film  directed by Robert Wise and based on the television series Star Trek  created by Gene Roddenberry, who also served as its producer. It is the  first installment in the Star Trek film series, and stars the cast of  the original television series. In the film, set in the 2270s, a  mysterious and immensely powerful alien cloud known as V'Ger approaches  Earth, destroying everything in its path. Admiral James T. Kirk (William  Shatner) assumes command of the recently refitted Starship USS  Enterprise, to lead it on a mission to save the planet and determine  V'Ger's origins.

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The Phantom is a 1996 superhero film directed by Simon Wincer. Based on  Lee Falk's comic strip The Phantom by King Features, the film stars  Billy Zane as a seemingly immortal crimefighter and his battle against  all forms of evil. The Phantom also stars Treat Williams, Kristy  Swanson, Catherine Zeta-Jones, James Remar and Patrick McGoohan. The  film's screenplay by Jeffrey Boam is loosely inspired by three of The  Phantom stories, "The Singh Brotherhood", "The Sky Band" and "The Belt";  but adds supernatural elements and several new characters.

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Dr. No is a 1962 spy film directed by Terence Young. It is based on the  1958 novel of the same name by Ian Fleming. Starring Sean Connery,  Ursula Andress, Joseph Wiseman, and Jack Lord, it is the first film in  the James Bond series, and was adapted by Richard Maibaum, Johanna  Harwood, and Berkely Mather. The film was produced by Harry Saltzman and  Albert R. Broccoli, a partnership that continued until 1975. In the film, James Bond is sent to Jamaica to investigate the  disappearance of a fellow British agent. The trail leads him to the  underground base of Dr. No, who is plotting to disrupt an early American  space launch from Cape Canaveral with a radio beam weapon. Although it  was the first of the Bond books to be made into a film, Dr. No was not  the first of Fleming's novels.

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Fanboys is a 2009 American comedy film directed by Kyle Newman and  starring Sam Huntington, Chris Marquette, Dan Fogler, Jay Baruchel and  Kristen Bell. It was released in the United States on February 6, 2009,  and in Canada on April 3, 2009.

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Galaxy Quest is a 1999 American science fiction comedy film directed by  Dean Parisot and written by David Howard and Robert Gordon. A parody of  and homage to science-fiction films and series, especially Star Trek and  its fandom, the film stars Tim Allen, Sigourney Weaver, Alan Rickman,  Tony Shalhoub, Sam Rockwell and Daryl Mitchell. It depicts the cast of a  fictional defunct cult television series, Galaxy Quest, who are visited  by actual aliens who think the series is an accurate documentary, and  drawn into a real interstellar conflict.

The film was a modest box office success and positively received by  critics: it won the Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation and the  Nebula Award for Best Script. It was also nominated for 10 Saturn  Awards, including Best Science Fiction Film and Best Director for  Parisot, Best Actress for Weaver, and Best Supporting Actor for Rickman,  with Allen winning Best Actor.

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The Shadow is a 1994 American superhero film from Universal Pictures,  produced by Martin Bregman, Willi Bear, and Michael Scott Bregman, and  directed by Russell Mulcahy. It stars Alec Baldwin, supported by John  Lone, Penelope Ann Miller, Peter Boyle, Ian McKellen, Jonathan Winters,  and Tim Curry. The film is based on the pulp fiction character of the  same name created in 1931 by Walter B. Gibson.

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The Prestige is a 2006 science fiction mystery thriller film directed by  Christopher Nolan, written by Nolan and his brother Jonathan, based on  the 1995 novel of the same name by Christopher Priest. It follows Robert  Angier and Alfred Borden, rival stage magicians in London at the end of  the 19th century. Obsessed with creating the best stage illusion, they  engage in competitive one-upmanship, with fatal results.

The film stars Hugh Jackman as Robert Angier and Christian Bale as  Alfred Borden. It also stars Scarlett Johansson, Michael Caine, Piper  Perabo, Andy Serkis, Rebecca Hall, and David Bowie as Nikola Tesla. The  film reunites Nolan with actors Bale and Caine from Batman Begins and  returning cinematographer Wally Pfister, production designer Nathan  Crowley, and editor Lee Smith.

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Batman (also known as Batman: The Movie) is a 1966 American superhero  film based on the Batman television series, and the first full-length  theatrical adaptation of the DC Comics character Batman. Released by  20th Century Fox, the film starred Adam West as Batman and Burt Ward as  Robin. The film hit theaters two months after the last episode of the  first season of the television series. The film includes most members of  the original TV cast, with the exception of Julie Newmar, who played  Catwoman in two episodes of the series' first season; for the movie, she  was replaced by Lee Meriwether.

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Green Lantern is a 2011 American superhero film based on the DC Comics  character of the same name. The film stars Ryan Reynolds, Blake Lively,  Peter Sarsgaard, Mark Strong, Angela Bassett and Tim Robbins, with  Martin Campbell directing a script by Greg Berlanti and comic book  writers Michael Green and Marc Guggenheim, which was subsequently  rewritten by Michael Goldenberg. The film tells the story of Hal Jordan,  a test pilot who is selected to become the first human member of an  intergalactic police force called the Green Lantern Corps. Hal is given a  ring that grants him superpowers, and must confront Parallax, who  threatens to upset the balance of power in the universe.