Pop Smart - Cinefest screens Sci Fi festival

For three weeks (June 13-July 3), Georgia State University’s Cinefest will present the Super! Mega! Summer Cine Science Fiction Fest. The line-up runs the gamut from silent genre classics to cheesy recent fare, but most of them should be rousingly fun on a big screen. Cinefest’s sci-fi selection includes:

Plan 9 From Outer Space : A colorized version of director Ed Wood’s notorious tale of “grave robbers from outer space!” One of the most watchable and amusing terrible movies ever made, immortalized in Tim Burton’s Oscar-winning film Ed Wood.

The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra: Director Larry Blamire’s attempt to make a schlocky 1950s sci-fi adventure. Not as fun as the real thing.

Westworld: Snappy 1973 action flick in which the denizens of a robotic amusement park go on a rampage and begin killing the guests. Parodied on “The Simpsons” episode about Itchy and Scratchy Land.

Logan’s Run: This 1976 film offers a vision of the future that promises to be hilariously dated, although the premise, in which a perfect society kills off its airheaded citizens when they reach 30 years old, should still have some metaphoric weight.

Flash Gordon: Jaw-droppingly campy space opera from 1980 that tries to cash in on the success of Star Wars by offering galactic derring-do, kitschy costumes and the music of Queen.