Sentences with phrase «alien invasion in»

The impetus for this film is Orson Welles» fictional account of an alien invasion in The War of the Worlds which was mistaken for a real news item.

His solo eshibition «The Music of Ramón Raquello and his Orchestra» draws its title from a fictional conductor whose radio performance was continuously disrupted by newsflash broadcasts heralding an alien invasion in Orson Welles» rendition of the War of the Worlds, aired in 1938.

PSone Classics Missile Command ($ 5.99) Defend the cities of the Earth against an alien invasion in this reimagining of an arcade classic.

It's no secret that Valve's co-op shooter is clearly an influence here, as you lock - and - load with a group of 3 other people and attempt to fend off an alien invasion in a suburban setting of quaint houses and sleepy side - streets.

Declassified will see players control special agent William Carter who is a CIA agent during the very first Alien invasion in 1962.

Lead your elite squad in the fight to save Earth from a huge alien invasion in this frantic, top - down, twin - stick shooter.

Even with the necessary suspension of belief that comes with a story featuring an alien invasion in the early 60s the story is so filled with holes and nonsensical turns that it actually detracts from the game.

These breaches then allow the 2008 Cloverfield monster and the alien invasion in its 2016 sequel, 10 Cloverfield Lane, to run rampant.

Aegis Wing pits players against a huge alien invasion in an adventure on space and Earth.

Chris Bertolini's spec screenplay tells the story of a Marine platoon's battle against an alien invasion in downtown Los Angeles.

Whether he's showing us an alien invasion in «Independence Day» or the destruction of the world in «The Day After Tomorrow» or «2012,» I really dig his films.

Familiar territory not only for Donald Sutherland (who coped with another alien invasion in the 1978 re-make of Invasion of the Body Snatchers) but for audiences as well.

Like the alien invasion in Spielberg's War of the Worlds, the humans are powerless against the plants.

The trilogy's smart take on time travel paved the way for Joseph Gordon - Levitt to hunt his older self (played by Bruce Willis) in «Looper,» for Will Smith to prevent an alien invasion in «Men in Black 3,» and for a pair of engineers to manipulate each other's fates in «Primer.»

Wet Alien invasion In addition to the Asian carp, a slew of other aquatic invaders are causing problems in freshwater settings across the United States.

Harold Saxon, Doctor Who (TV) Former defence minister and bestselling author, Saxon quickly charmed his way into office after fighting off a Yuletide alien invasion in 2007.

Not exact matches

«In this video, all of the women get pregnant from an alien invasion.

Apparently, audiences were not interested in seeing a nearly three - hour - long movie about a robotic alien truck eluding the clutches of an intergalactic bounty hunter by joining forces with prehistoric robot dinosaurs — that would be Transformers: Age of Extinction — or that one where Tom Cruise is repeatedly killed while fending off an alien invasion... or something.

Six years after an alien invasion, an American journalist in Mexico tries to get back to the US border, but aliens are looking to strike at any moment.

What once would have seemed like an alien Eastern invasion of Christian musical space — a mystical form of biblical literalism transposed into mesmerizing vibrations — has become an acceptable form of meditation in the Evangelical community.

But that doesn't change the fact that Cassie Conley, NASA's planetary protection officer, is in charge of protecting Earth from alien invasions.

With more ice melting in this era of global warming, could we have an alien microbial invasion on our hands again?

The study, published today in PNAS and led by scientists at Senckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre (BiK - F), the University of Vienna and UCL, analysed a global database of 45,984 records detailing the first invasions of 16,019 established alien species from 1500 until 2005 to investigate the dynamics of how alien species spread worldwide.

Indeed, alien invasions are second only to habitat loss in causing species extinction worldwide.

60 %: grasslands degraded due to overgrazing by livestock, invasion by alien species, or conversion to agriculture, resulting in a rapid decline of native flora and fauna

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The call to action follows the publication of a paper «Tackling Invasive Alien Species in Europe: the Top 20 Issues», in the peer - reviewed journal Management of Biological Invasions.

Professor Dick said: «Alien plant and animal species cause environmental, economic and social damage across Europe, and their rate of invasion is set to increase in the coming years.

ALIEN INVASION Burmese pythons, just one of the invasive reptiles now found in southern Florida and discussed in a new book, are consuming large numbers of mammals in the Everglades and nearby ecosystems.

A mission to a Martian moon could return with alien life, according to experts at Purdue University, but don't expect the invasion scenario presented by summer blockbusters like «Men in Black 3» or «Prometheus.»

Earlier in the day, Rihanna left the Montage Hotel in Beverly Hills to record for the upcoming DreamWorks Animation comedy called Home, where she plays a young girl who resists capture and stands up to an alien invasion named Tip.

She was the object of Adam Sandler's misguided affection in the comedy Just Go With It and she's currently filming What to Expect When You're Expecting alongside heavy - hitters like Cameron Diaz and Jennifer Lopez, while her action / alien invasion flick Battleship is set to hit theaters next year.

The vanguard in an alien invasion?

The movie is fairly realistic in its depiction of how humans are likely to act and behave when faced with unstoppable adversity, provided that one keeps in mind that the alien invasion is not the main point of the story.

Building upon the success of the original, Conduit 2 will take players to the far reaches of the world to stop an alien invasion that can be fought in single - player, online multi-player battles, and all - new off and online co-op modes.

Probably only with an advocate like Jackson to run interference for him could Blomkamp have gotten away with a lot of it — the Johannesburg setting (aren't alien invasions only supposed to happen in New York, L.A., or D.C.?)

As his first major feature role independent of his siblings, Rory appeared as alongside Mel Gibson and Joaquin Phoenix in M. Night Shyamalan's rural alien invasion thriller Signs.

Screening in conjunction with the release and signing of American Cinematheque's Dennis Bartok's new book, A Thousand Cuts, is a rarely seen 35 mm print of the 1968 low - budget alien invasion gem GOKE: BODY SNATCHER FROM HELL.

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In a year of alien invasion stories, Darkest Hour still managed to stand out as the worst of the bunch.

In these films, the world has usually turned against humanity in some way — a zombie apocalypse, an alien invasion, or simply the indomitability of nature itself — and the relative resourcefulness of characters who were previously reliant on now - absent tools or technologies provide the major dramatic beats as outside forces close in, driving these characters into actioIn these films, the world has usually turned against humanity in some way — a zombie apocalypse, an alien invasion, or simply the indomitability of nature itself — and the relative resourcefulness of characters who were previously reliant on now - absent tools or technologies provide the major dramatic beats as outside forces close in, driving these characters into actioin some way — a zombie apocalypse, an alien invasion, or simply the indomitability of nature itself — and the relative resourcefulness of characters who were previously reliant on now - absent tools or technologies provide the major dramatic beats as outside forces close in, driving these characters into actioin, driving these characters into action.

The movies of M. Night Shyamalan have always been steeped in the supernatural and otherworldly, whether they've explored life after death, alien invasions or superheroes.

Pearce also did some writing on Pacific Rim, the big alien invasion film that Guillermo del Toro is about to begin shooting in Toronto for Legendary Pictures and Warner Bros..

What made Spielberg such a force in the 1970s was the way he ruthlessly renovated cheap old genres (the chase flick, the creature feature, the alien - invasion thriller) without winking at them or at the audience.

The screenings most making us wish we were in Cambridge, though (not surprisingly), are Andrei Tarkovsky's interior - world outer - space saga Solaris and Nicolas Roeg's one - of - a-kind alien invasion story The Man Who Fell to Earth.

The internet calmly took this news in by immediately casting about for wild rumors regarding what this might mean for the second film — specifically, the idea that once it was made clear the Captain Marvel movie (coming out in between the two Avengers films) would feature the Skrulls (a race of green - skinned shape changers, for all you non-comic nerds), the fourth Avengers movie would turn its attention to a «secret invasion» storyline, starring said aliens.

He wants to be mayor so badly that he's traveled back in time from 2048 to enable him to save the world from absolute obliteration and alien invasion.

Initially the shaky - cam, Cloverfield approach to an alien invasion seems to work... until an action scene kicks in.

Battle: Los Angeles, while more grounded in modern reality than Sucker Punch, is a sci - fi actioner and another installment into the recently busy genre of alien invasion films.

Synopsis: A platoon of Marines take on an alien invasion throughout Los Angeles in this Original Films sci - fi action picture, headed by director Jonathan Liebesman (Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning) and producer Neal H. Moritz.