Archive for the ‘Sci-Fi’ Category

Jurassic World

Friday, June 12th, 2015

Genre: Sci-Fi

Release Year: 2015

Runtime: 15

Language: English

Director: Colin Trevorrow

Plot: Jurassic World movie trailer – starring Chris Pratt, Bryce Dallas Howard, Vincent D’Onofrio, Judy Greer, B.D. Wong. Directed by Colin Trevorrow. Theatrical Release Date: 6/12/2015
Genre: Sci-Fi
Rating: Pending

 

Ex Machina

Friday, April 10th, 2015

Genre: Sci-Fi

Release Year: 2015

Runtime: 124

Language: English

Director: Alex Garland

Plot: Caleb Smith (Domhnall Gleeson), a programmer at an internet-search giant, wins a competition to spend a week at the private mountain estate of the company’s brilliant and reclusive CEO, Nathan Bateman (Oscar Isaac). Upon his arrival, Caleb learns that Nathan has chosen him to be the human component in a Turing Test—charging him with evaluating the capabilities, and ultimately the consciousness, of Nathan’s latest experiment in artificial intelligence. That experiment is Ava (Alicia Vikander), a breathtaking A.I. whose emotional intelligence proves more sophisticated, seductive––and more deceptive––than the two men could have imagined.

 

Legends from the Sky

Friday, January 30th, 2015

Genre: Sci-Fi

Release Year: 2015

Runtime: 135

Language: English

Director: Travis Holt Hamilton

Plot: A Native American Veteran, burdened by survivor’s guilt after a disastrous military tour, is forced to search for his missing grandfather after his ancestral land is mysteriously taken over by an Unknown Federal Organization.

 

Alien Rising

Monday, January 26th, 2015

Genre: Sci-Fi

Release Year: 2015

Runtime: 115

Language: English

Director: Dana Schroeder

Plot: A savvy ex-homeland security agent and martial arts expert finds herself renditioned to a remote island to help the military unlock the secrets of an extra-terrestrial technology. She becomes an unwitting accomplice to the Colonel, who commands the facility. Discovering the nefarious purpose for his research, she must decide to escape or fight for the world’s salvation. This sci-fi thriller unfolds through breath-taking visuals, unique action sequences and a complex story with deeply political undertones.

 

Predestination

Friday, January 9th, 2015

Genre: Sci-Fi

Release Year: 2015

Runtime: 91

Language: English

Director: Michael Spierig

Plot: PREDESTINATION chronicles the life of a Temporal Agent (Ethan Hawke) sent on an intricate series of time-travel journeys designed to prevent future killers from committing their crimes. Now, on his final assignment, the Agent must stop the one criminal that has eluded him throughout time and prevent a devastating attack in which thousands of lives will be lost.

Written and directed by Michael and Peter Spierig (“Daybreakers”) and based on the short story “All You Zombies” by the late Robert A. Heinlein, PREDESTINATION is an ingeniously constructed puzzle-box, as emotional as it is thrilling.

 

Tomorrowland

Friday, December 12th, 2014

Genre: Sci-Fi

Release Year: 2014

Runtime: 118

Language: English

Director: Brad Bird

Plot: Bound by a shared destiny, a bright, optimistic teen bursting with scientific curiosity and a former boy-genius inventor jaded by disillusionment embark on a danger-filled mission to unearth the secrets of an enigmatic place somewhere in time and space that exists in their collective memory as “Tomorrowland.”

 

Starry Eyes

Friday, November 14th, 2014

Genre: Sci-Fi

Release Year: 2014

Runtime: 118

Language: English

Director: Kevin Kolsch

Plot: Determined to make it as an actress in Hollywood, Sarah Walker spends her days working a dead-end job, enduring petty friendships and going on countless casting calls in hopes of catching her big break. After a series of strange auditions, Sarah lands the leading role in a new film from a mysterious production company. But with this opportunity comes bizarre ramifications that will transform her both mentally and physically into something beautiful… and altogether terrifying.

 

Interstellar

Friday, November 7th, 2014

Genre: Sci-Fi

Release Year: 2014

Runtime: 112

Language: English

Director: Christopher Nolan

Plot: Interstellar movie trailer – starring Matthew McConaughey, Jessica Chastain, Anne Hathaway, Wes Bentley, Casey Affleck, Michael Caine. Directed by Christopher Nolan. Theatrical Release Date: 11/7/2014
Genre: Sci-Fi
Rating: Pending

 

The Zero Theorem

Friday, September 19th, 2014

Genre: Sci-Fi

Release Year: 2014

Runtime: 117

Language: English

Director: Terry Gilliam

Plot: Set in a future London, THE ZERO THEOREM stars double Academy Award® winner Christoph Waltz as Qohen Leth, an eccentric and reclusive computer genius plagued with existential angst. He lives in isolation in a burnt-out chapel, waiting for a phone call which he is convinced will provide him with answers he has long sought. Qohen works on a mysterious project, delegated to him by Management (Matt Damon), aimed at discovering the purpose of existence – or the lack thereof – once and for all. But his solitary existence is disturbed by visits from the flirtatious Bainsley (Mélanie Thierry), and Bob (Lucas Hedges), Management’s wunderkind son. Yet it is only once he experiences the power of love and desire that he is able to understand his very reason for being.

 

The Scribbler

Friday, September 19th, 2014

Genre: Sci-Fi

Release Year: 2014

Runtime: 106

Language: English

Director: John Suits

Plot: THE SCRIBBLER follows Suki (Katie Cassidy), a young woman confronting her destructive mental illness using “The Siamese Burn,” an experimental machine designed to eliminate multiple personalities. The closer Suki comes to being “cured,” she’s haunted by a thought… what if the last unwanted identity turns out to be her?

 

The Maze Runner

Friday, September 19th, 2014

Genre: Sci-Fi

Release Year: 2014

Runtime: 116

Language: English

Director: Wes Ball

Plot: When Thomas wakes up trapped in a massive maze with a group of other boys, he has no memory of the outside world other than strange dreams about a mysterious organization known as W.C.K.D. Only by piecing together fragments of his past with clues he discovers in the maze can Thomas hope to uncover his true purpose and a way to escape. Based upon the best-selling novel by James Dashner.

 

Jupiter Ascending

Friday, July 25th, 2014

Genre: Sci-Fi

Release Year: 2014

Runtime: 114

Language: English

Director: Andy Wachowski

Plot: Jupiter Jones (Kunis) was born under a night sky, with signs predicting that she was destined for great things. Now grown, Jupiter dreams of the stars but wakes up to the cold reality of a job cleaning other people’s houses and an endless run of bad breaks. Only when Caine (Tatum), a genetically engineered ex-military hunter, arrives on Earth to track her down does Jupiter begin to glimpse the fate that has been waiting for her all along—her genetic signature marks her as next in line for an extraordinary inheritance that could alter the balance of the cosmos.

 

Snowpiercer

Friday, June 27th, 2014

Genre: Sci-Fi

Release Year: 2014

Runtime: 129

Language: English

Director: Joon-ho Bong

Plot: In this sci-fi epic from director Bong Joon-Ho (The Host, Mother), a failed global-warming experiment kills off most life on the planet. The final survivors board the SNOWPIERCER, a train that travels around the globe via a perpetual-motion engine. When cryptic messages incite the passengers to revolt, the train thrusts full-throttle towards disaster.

 

Edge of Tomorrow

Friday, June 6th, 2014

Genre: Sci-Fi

Release Year: 2014

Runtime: 152

Language: English

Director: Doug Liman

Plot: TOM CRUISE stars as Bill Cage, who must relive the same brutal battle against an unrelenting alien race.

 

Anna

Friday, June 6th, 2014

Genre: Sci-Fi

Release Year: 2014

Runtime: 101

Language: English

Director: Jorge Dorado

Plot: Leading man Mark Strong plays John Washington, a detective with the unique ability to enter people’s minds and memories (presumably to help people recall event details pertinent to solving cases). Washington takes on the case of a troubled teenage girl named Anna, played by up-and-coming young actress Taissa Farmiga, who is accused of an attempted triple homicide. To uncover the mystery surrounding Anna and her story, Washington will enter her mind and try to find out the truth: is Anna capable of killing, or is there something hidden in her memories that shows otherwise?

 

I’LL FOLLOW YOU DOWN

Thursday, June 5th, 2014

Genre: Sci-Fi

Release Year: 2014

Runtime: 124

Language: English

Director: Richie Mehta

Plot: After the disappearance of an accomplished physicist (Rufus Sewell), his son Erol (Haley Joel Osment) and wife Marika (Gillian Anderson) struggle to cope. Years later, now a young scientist himself, Erol discovers a formula that could kill him, throw him into the unknown…or bring his family back together.

 

Godzilla

Friday, May 16th, 2014

Genre: Sci-Fi

Release Year: 2014

Runtime: 152

Language: English

Director: Gareth Edwards

Plot: An epic rebirth to Toho’s iconic Godzilla. This spectacular adventure pits the world’s most famous monster against malevolent creatures who, bolstered by humanity’s scientific arrogance, threaten our very existence.

 

Transcendence

Friday, April 18th, 2014

Genre: Sci-Fi

Release Year: 2014

Runtime: 153

Language: English

Director: Wally Pfister

Plot: Dr. Will Caster (Johnny Depp) is the foremost researcher in the field of Artificial Intelligence, working to create a sentient machine that combines the collective intelligence of everything ever known with the full range of human emotions. His highly controversial experiments have made him famous, but they have also made him the prime target of anti-technology extremists who will do whatever it takes to stop him.

However, in their attempt to destroy Will, they inadvertently become the catalyst for him to succeed—to be a participant in his own transcendence. For his wife Evelyn (Rebecca Hall) and best friend Max Waters (Paul Bettany), both fellow researchers, the question is not if they can…but if they should.

Their worst fears are realized as Will’s thirst for knowledge evolves into a seemingly omnipresent quest for power, to what end is unknown. The only thing that is becoming terrifyingly clear is there may be no way to stop him.

 

GOODBYE WORLD

Friday, April 4th, 2014

Genre: Sci-Fi

Release Year: 2014

Runtime: 103

Language: English

Director: Denis Henry Hennelly

Plot: James and Lily live off the grid, raising their young daughter in a cocoon of comfort and sustainability. When a mysterious mass text ripples its way across the country, triggering a crippling, apocalyptic cyber-attack, their home transitions from sheltered modern oasis to a fortress for the estranged old friends that show up at their door for protection and community. The unexpected reunion–abundant with revelry and remembrances, generously enhanced by organic wine and weed–is quickly undermined by the slights of the past, the spark of lingering flirtations and the threat of a locally grown new world order. Balancing tense confrontations with slivers of levity, director Denis Henry Hennelly pinpoints a future where ideology explodes into action in every area.

 

Under The Skin

Friday, April 4th, 2014

Genre: Sci-Fi

Release Year: 2014

Runtime: 125

Language: English (International)

Director: Jonathan Glazer

Plot: From visionary director Jonathan Glazer (SEXY BEAST, BIRTH) comes a stunning career transformation, a masterpiece of existential science fiction that journeys to the heart of what it means to be human, extraterrestrial — or something in between. A voluptuous woman of unknown origin (Scarlett Johansson) combs the highways in search of isolated or forsaken men, luring this succession of lost souls into an otherworldly lair. They are seduced, stripped of their humanity, and never heard from again. Based on the novel by Michel Faber (The Crimson Petal and the White), UNDER THE SKIN examines human experience from the perspective of an unforgettable heroine who grows too comfortable in her borrowed skin, until she is abducted into humanity with devastating results.