Is there a more apt spot for a huge sci-fi film festival than London’s Science Museum? Over five days the South Ken institution will be hosting screenings of legendary classics of the genre to cult favourites on one of the largest IMAX screens in the country, with talks and lectures from iconic filmmakers, actors and scientists thrown in.
Catch ‘Interstellar’ introduced by director Christopher Nolan, watch a 70mm presentation of ‘2001: A Space Odyssey’ with a talk from astronaut Nicole Stott, or see ‘Sunshine’ followed by a post-screening Q&A with director Danny Boyle, science advisor Brian Cox and astrophysicist Dr Maggie Aderin-Pocock. Plus, there’ll be a 30th-anniversary screening of ‘The X-Files’, presentations of ‘Alien’, ‘Spider-Man Into the Spider-Verse’ and ‘Attack the Block’ with ‘Blade Runner: The Final Cut’ presented for the first time in its IMAX edition in Europe to close the whole grand space opera.
What’s more, when you book a film festival screening you’ll receive 50 percent off tickets to the museum’s blockbuster exhibition Science Fiction: Voyage to the Edge of Imagination