Sentences with phrase «about alternate worlds»

There have been notable stories in recent years about alternate worlds — most recently Starz's fantastic series Counterpart — but Miéville's surreal, intriguing take on this particular trope makes excellent source material.

Artist Philippe Parreno (French, born 1963) creates spaces that allow us to speculate about alternate worlds and states of being.

His terrific debut Pleasantville was also a satire about an alternate world.

Not exact matches

Lasting about as long as a church service, a good movie transports you to another realm where art of story and the magic of special effects allows you to experience an alternate reality that can help provide perspective or inspiration once you return to the real world.

I'm not a Christian and care about the mysticism / spiritualism of the plot only as far as it advances the story (much like the mythology created by JRR Tolkien or the magical alternate - world created by JK Rowling).

So begins chapter one of therapist Susan Pease Gadoua and journalist Vicki Larson's new book The New I Do: Reshaping Marriage for Skeptics, Realists and Rebels, which challenges readers to consider alternate marital agreements in a world where lovers live together without tying the knot, more couples are having children out of wedlock and about half of all marriages end in divorce.

Scientific American spoke with Benford about the factual basis for his book, the appeal of «alternate history» and the surprising origins of some real - world nuclear tactics in works of science fiction.

That's the story in Alternate Universe: A Rescue Mission, a movie from Fresh Films about a pair of orphaned sisters who use a school science project to open a wormhole to another world.

The first chapter in the Shin Megami Tensei: Persona RPG series released for the PlayStation 4 features an episodic story about a group of high school students in a fictionalized version of Tokyo's Shibuya district who explore the Palace, an alternate world created by the hearts of other people.

But The Gifted supplies some additional reasons anyway, with customary vagueness about how it fits into a greater continuity: The X-Men as the public knows them have «disappeared,» and it's (intentionally) difficult to tell whether this is an early step in the process that leads to the mutant - light world of Logan, the mutant - annihilating alternate timeline of Days Of Future Past, or just a contemporary version of the periodic X-Men recessions that seem to plague the earlier incarnations of the team (Days Of Future Past and Apocalypse have both Xavier's school and his injustice - fighting squadron expanding and receding as needed — part of that infinite - origins deal the X-Men movies traffic in).

Instead, the Disney - produced and vaguely Disney - inspired Tomorrowland wastes Bird's talent, a scrappy female lead, and Clooney gravitas on what amounts to a feature - length prologue; this movie about a retro - futuristic utopia in an alternate dimension accessed by the world's best and brightest takes approximately forever to get going, marking the first time Bird's whiz - bang set pieces haven't set his movie's pace.

In Payne's alternate world, a Scandinavian scientist (played by «A Man Called Ove's» Rolf Lassgard) has successfully developed a way to shrink mankind to the size of about five inches.

Suzy, who alternates between immersion in young adult novels about magical orphans and violent outbursts against her parents and her schoolmates, carries the modern world (the movie is set in 1965) with her in the form of a portable record player and a single Françoise Hardy recording.

About Bright Set in an alternate present - day, this action - thriller directed by David Ayer (Suicide Squad, End of Watch, writer of Training Day) follows two cops from very different backgrounds (Ward, a human played by Will Smith, and Jakoby, an orc played by Joel Edgerton) who embark on a routine patrol night that will ultimately alter the future as their world knows it.

When the film was released last December, audiences didn't take to the world of Assassins and Templars, and the alternate ending likely wouldn't have changed many of their minds about the movie.

The movie features «the hidden world of magic and alternate dimensions,» as described in Marvel's release about the casting, confirming that this is Strange as we see him in the comics.

Instead, 2012 becomes quite grave, taking its nonsense seriously after a frothy start, alternating between scenes of unspeakable annihilation and absurd intimacy, where the characters take a smoke break from the end of the world to worry about parental responsibility or romantic partners.

They will join the other student participants so far: Leslie Bank, who had no prior experience with virtual worlds before becoming involved, and Trevena's own fourteen - year - old triplets, Corey, Mark, and Brian, who have been using Second Life for about a year, following their dad's lead and honing their skills at creating alternate realities.

While we don't know too much abut the game's story yet, the producer Yosuke Futami has previously spoke why it will take place in the alternate ALfheim online and about how it will focus less on the death game aspect and more abut Kirito and friends having fun in the world, for a change.

One of the great things about serials is exploring the depths of complex alternate world.

«The Curse of the Wendigo,» a story about a mysterious creature set during World War I, written by Mathieu Missoffe and illustrated by Charlie Adlard, the artist of «The Walking Dead;» «Josephine,» a romantic comedy by Penelope Bagieu, the creator of «Exquisite Corpse;» «Promethee,» a science - fiction story in the same vein as «Lost,» created by Christopher Bec, with an introduction by Mark Waid; «Iron Squad,» an alternate history sci - fi story in which new technology allows the Germans to win World War II, by Jean - Luc Sala and Ronan Toulhoat; «Spin Angels,» a tale of black ops and spies, a Catholic cardinal and the Mafia, by Jean - Luc Sala and Pierre - Mony Chan; «Come Prima,» a road story about two warring brothers, done in a style that pays homage to Italian films, by Alfred.

A demon king named Satan is about to conquer his alternate world when he is transported to Tokyo in our world.

Little glimpses of the wider world leave you wanting to know more about this alternate version of history..

The core gameplay is about alternating among different types of disguises — you're undercover in Lego City, after all — which interact with the world in different ways.

The first chapter in the Shin Megami Tensei: Persona RPG series released for the PlayStation 4 features an episodic story about a group of high school students in a fictionalized version of Tokyo's Shibuya district who explore the Palace, an alternate world created by the hearts of other people.

This alternate version is all about soccer - or football if you live anywhere else in the world besides the U.S. Kickoff Countdown is easy to point out, as he's the only Skylander with the head of a soccer ball - it appears both on the figure and in - game.

With a unique combat system designed to make use of the DS's two screens, and a twisting, exciting story about a group of teenagers fighting for their lives in an alternate Shibuya, The World Ends With You received high praise.

Still a professor of painting at Yale, for this Tuesday Evenings presentation Storr talks about learning on the job as a way of life during a period of extraordinarily complex, rapid, and far - flung changes in the «art world» — now a polycentric, culturally diverse, and ever - morphing economic and politic alternate reality — as well as the abiding values that draw people to art and into an «art community» primarily inhabited by makers of various kinds.

What I find ironic is that it is his can - do optimism that is in this case working against our ability to do something about our dependence on fossil fuels and the climate change that this dependence is resulting in, that is, switching to alternate energy, preserving modern civilization and the world economy beyond Peak Oil and Peak Coal, preventing climate change from becoming such a huge problem that it destroys that the world economy — and more than likely leads to a series of highly destructive wars over limited resources.

In this talk I will explain why I became concerned about the climate, and terrified by the one sided propaganda in the media, In particular I am worried about all the money wasted on alternate energies, when so many children in the world go hungry to bed.