SCIFI MOVIE MARATHON - SYFY: SCHEDULE SUNDAY, JUNE 3, 2012
09:00 AM Star Trek: Insurrection
The ninth film in the series finds Capt. Picard (Patrick Stewart) and his crew questioning orders from Starfleet regarding a planet with mystical powers. Ambitious but sluggish. Directed by Jonathan Frakes, who plays Cdr. Riker.
Cast includes Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, Brent Spiner, LeVar Burton, Michael Dorn, Gates McFadden, Marina Sirtis, F. Murray Abraham, Donna Murphy, Anthony Zerbe, Gregg Henry, Daniel Hugh Kelly and Michael Welch.
11:00 AM Outlander
A warrior from space crash-lands into ancient Norway and helps Viking tribes battle a bloodthirsty monster. Jim Caviezel stars in this sc-fi adventure fantasy.
Cast includes Person of Interests' Jim Caviezel, Sophia Myles, Jack Huston, John Hurt, Cliff Saunders, Patrick Stevenson, Aidan Devine and Ron Perlman.
01:30 PM Aliens
The long-awaited sequel to the successful ALIEN is a nonstop, high-tech, souped-up war movie, with gung ho marines blasting special-effects creatures, and a genuinely convincing, exciting action heroine. Ripley (Sigourney Weaver) is found in deep space by a salvage ship and brought back to a space station, where Burke (Paul Reiser), a representative of The Company, tells her that she has been unconscious for 57 years. To her horror, Ripley also learns that the planet on which she and her crew found the creature in ALIEN has been colonized.
Cast includes Sigourney Weaver, Carrie Henn, Michael Biehn, Paul Reiser, Lance Henriksen, Bill Paxton, Jenette Goldstein, William Hope, Al Matthews and Mark Rolston.
04:30 PM Alien: Resurrection
Sigourney Weaver reprises her role as Ellen Ripley in the “Alien” saga's fourth installment. Here she returns from the dead, courtesy of cloning, to battle more beasts.
Cast includes Sigourney Weaver, Winona Ryder, Dominique Pinon, Ron Perlman, CSI's Gary Dourdan, Michael Wincott, Kim Flowers, Dan Hedaya, J.E. Freeman, Brad Dourif and The Closer's Raymond Cruz.
07:00 PM Alien Vs. Predator
During an archaeological expedition on Bouvetøya Island in Antarctica, a team of archaeologists and other scientists find themselves caught up in a battle between the two legends. Soon, the team realize that only one species can win.
Cast includes Sanaa Lathan, Raoul Bova, Lance Henriksen, Ewen Bremner, Colin Salmon, Tommy Flanagan, Joseph Rye, Agathe de La Boulaye, Carsten Norgaard, Sam Troughton and Andy Lucas.
09:00 PM Close Encounters Of The Third Kind
After an encounter with UFOs, a line worker feels undeniably drawn to an isolated area in the wilderness where something spectacular is about to happen.
Cast includes Richard Dreyfuss, François Truffaut, Teri Garr, Melinda Dillon, Bob Balaban, J. Patrick McNamara, Warren J. Kemmerling, Roberts Blossom, Philip Dodds, Cary Guffey, Lance Henriksen and Josef Sommer.
12:00 AM Pandorum
After awakening from hypersleep with no memory of their mission, astronauts Lt. Payton (Dennis Quaid) and Cpl. Bower (Ben Foster) discover that the 60,000 passengers aboard their vast spacecraft have vanished without a trace. Little do they realize that they will soon be fighting for the survival of the entire human race.
Cast includes Dennis Quaid, Ben Foster, Cam Gigandet, Antje Traue, Cung Le, Eddie Rouse and The Walking Dead's Norman Reedus.
02:30 AM AVH: Alien Vs. Hunter
A hunter from space tracks a deadly alien creature on Earth.
Cast includes William Katt, Dedee Pfeiffer, Wittly Jourdan, Randy Mulkey, Jennifer Couch, Jason S. Gray, John Murphy Jr. and Kevin Kazakoff.
