King Abdullah II of Jordon is the only reigning monarch in the world who has acted in a Science Fiction show and that show happens to be Star Trek. Back in 1996 when he was a prince, he had role as an uncredited extra in the 1996 Star Trek: VoyagerContinue Reading
Guest post by Jahanzeb from Hearts of Khyber on the new Star Wars movie and Islam. Parh parh ilm hazaar kitaaban qaddi apnay aap nou parhiya naee… Yes, you have read thousands of books But you have never tried to read your own self… ~ Bulleh Shah There is a momentContinue Reading
Aziz M. Osman is a Malaysian director who has directed a number of Science Fiction movies in the Malay language. Here is a sample of a few of them: XX-Ray is a Malaysian Science Fiction movie directed by Aziz M. Osman which came out in 1992. It has been calledContinue Reading
Day 2: Sparx is a concept short movie from Pakistan directed by Waqar Quereshi who is a student at the University of Central Punjab.
Lets start the first day of Pakistani Science Fiction with alternate history. There are movies which are bizarre and then there are movies which lie at the border of being bizarre and being socially conscious. The film was released in 1986 and starred leading actors of Pakistani Cinema at theContinue Reading
Image Source: Dubai Calendar The Dubai International Film Festival is an annual event which is hosted in Dubai in UAE. In this year’s event there is a competition to produce a Science Fiction movie script. The event is being co-sponsered by the Middle East ComicCon. The movie will then beContinue Reading
1.1 is an upcoming Arabic Science Fiction black comedy movie. Not much is known about the movie at this moment other than what is available on its website. The director describes the philosophy behind the movie as follows: I’m interested in the contrast between religion and science in middle easternContinue Reading
Turkish Science Fiction has come a long way and it will not be long before Turkey produces world class sci-fi. Long before Sadik Yemni, GORA, Book of Madness etc there was Dünyayı Kurtaran Adam or The Man Who Saved the World. It was one of those movies which are soContinue Reading
A.R.O.G is the sequel to G.O.R.A which we covered last week and is also a goof ball sci-fi comedy in the same mold as the first movie. The evil commander from the first movie comes back and sends him back to the past – one million years into the pastContinue Reading
Zinda Laash also known as Dracula in Pakistan and The Living Corpse is the first Science Fiction movie from Pakistan having been produced in 1967. The premise of the story is that a scientist Professor Tabini is experimenting on an substance what will give him immortality. However when he injectsContinue Reading