Sentences with phrase «as a science fiction classic»

Ultimately, 2001 has endured as a science fiction classic for years - love it or hate it, it deserves to be seen.

As this science fiction classic opens, botanist Freeman Lowell (Bruce Dern) has spent eight years aboard the space freighter «Valley Forge» preserving the only botanical specimens left from Earth under huge geodesic domes.

Not exact matches

Although generally categorized as a novel for young readers, this Newbery award - winner and science fiction classic, grapple with adult - sized questions about the nature of God and the existence of evil.

In the classic 1973 Arthur C. Clarke science fiction novel «Rendezvous With Rama,» a mysterious object is detected outside the orbit of Jupiter as it rapidly approaches the inner solar system.

Still, it is worth watching as a science fiction thriller that should have been a classic.

In the late 1920s, Fritz Lang was the star director of Germany's Ufa Studios, the biggest film studio outside of Hollywood, and one of the most celebrated filmmakers in the world for such ambitious epic visions as Destiny (1921), the Die Nibelungen (1924) films and especially Metropolis (1927), his allegorical science fiction classic that is still considered one of the great films of the silent era.

EXCLUSIVE: Charlie Kaufman has been signed to do a page one rewrite of I.Q. 83, an adaptation of Arthur Herzog's classic 1978 science fiction novel that Paramount is now developing as a star vehicle for Steve Carell.

Pixels (Blu - ray + Ultraviolet) Details: 2015, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment Rated: PG - 13, suggestive comments, language The lowdown: A science fiction comedy about aliens who misinterpret video feeds of classic arcade games as a declaration of war and retaliate by attacking our planet with games such as Pac - Man, Donkey Kong, Centipede, Space Invaders and Galaga.

The classic Nintendo franchise, Metroid, envisioned through the lens of 60s - 70s science fiction cinema such as 2001, Alien, and Solaris: this was the concept for Rainfallâ $ ™ s most recent production.

In fact an early scene in which the mythology and back - story of the inhabitants of Barsoom is laid out in voice - over sent shivers up my spine recalling the opening scene of David Lynch's misbegotten 1984 film Dune, a failed big budget adaptation of classic science fiction literature hailed at the time as the «new Star Wars».

Close Encounters of the Third Kind Steven Spielberg's 1977 science fiction classic stars Richard Dreyfuss as a man on a mission after a brush with a UFO.

Hailee Steinfeld, who came to prominence as a girl hunting her father's killer in the Coen brothers» remake of True Grit will have another chance to hone her action chops playing female child soldier Petra in the adaptation of science fiction classic Ender's Game.

Although generally listed in the science - fiction section, Philip Kaufman's adaptation of the classic Jack Finney story easily qualifies as one of the most effective horror films of the late 20th century.

As the title is simply «Godzilla,» and The Scaly One doesn't lift his head for the first third, it seems to have hopes of becoming a science fiction classic.

1984 is based on the classic science fiction novel by George Orwell, which offered a bleak vision of a future dystopia where one's thoughts and actions were controlled by a totalitarian government ruled by an entity known simply as «Big Brother».

As such, though set in modern times, the film takes a decidedly spoof - y look at science fiction of the 1950s and 1960s, with nods to such classics as The War of the Worlds and The Day the Earth Stood StilAs such, though set in modern times, the film takes a decidedly spoof - y look at science fiction of the 1950s and 1960s, with nods to such classics as The War of the Worlds and The Day the Earth Stood Stilas The War of the Worlds and The Day the Earth Stood Still.

BUYSOUNDTRAX Records presents STARCRASH, featuring music composed and conducted by John Barry for the 1978 camp science fiction classic directed by Luigi Cozzi (aka Lewis Coates) and starring the beautiful Caroline Munro as Stella Star, Marjoe Gortner as Akton, Christopher Plummer as The Emperor of the Galaxy, introducing David Hasselhoff as his son, Simon, Robert Tessier as Thor and featuring the voice talent of Hamilton Camp as the android Elle, versus the evil might of Count Zarth Arn, played by Joe Spinell.

A few years after collaborating with Steven Spielberg on Poltergeist, Tobe Hooper remade William Cameron Menzies» 1953 science - fiction / horror classic as a dark, subversive counter-narrative to Spielberg's suburbia.

While it isn't exactly remembered as a classic example of»70s science fiction, Demon Seed touches on some interesting themes, and if nothing else, will succeed in weirding you the hell out.

The music evokes classic science fiction movie soundtracks and stands out as quirky and fun.

; other classic mid-century science - fiction flicks like When Worlds Collide (1951), It Came from Outer Space (1953), and The Time Machine (1960) were marketed similarly, as Lumière-esque marvels of film technology.

For three years or so I served as a books columnist for the Boston Globe, given dispensation to write about whatever bookish thing I wished — weird Polish novels, obscure French poets, science fiction classics — and so was forever on the lookout for fresh voices.

The search results are great and cover various categories such as classics, textbooks, math & science, children's books, philosophy & religion, plays, modern fiction, fantasy & romance, foreign language, history & culture, arts & entertainment, mystery and poetry.

I'm a senior cover designer for Penguin Press, which publishes Penguin's classic fiction list as well as non-fiction titles in science, philosophy, history, etc..

I answered some junk mail and had them sending me classics (Moby Dick, etc.) as well as signed first edition of science fiction.

No science fiction novel will ever be thought of as a classic alongside Spencer, Dickens, Quinn, Lindsey, Garwood or Woodiwiss.

Having said that, she was faced with the challenge of producing a cover that conveyed the gritty sinister feel of a classic crime noir novel with a hint the book was a science fiction story as well.

Barrage is a fantastic story, a sci - fi action piece that feels like it borrows conceptually a little bit from classics such as Mark Twain's The Prince and the Pauper, yet with its own fun science fiction flare to it.

Spies, science - fiction writers, and new wave icons populate this dazzling novel, which U.K. critics have already compared to such modern classics as Don DeLillo's Underworld.

Crisis of the Confederation is one of the most interesting mods I've encountered, a homage to science fiction classics such as Dune and Foundation.

As with most classic science fiction there is a small mishap at the lab and the accelerator malfunctions leading to Lester being transported in to Another World.

The pathos inspired by De Jong's depiction of these itinerant performers, whose lives are on the periphery of mainstream society, has a cinematic quality that recalls such science fiction classics as La Jetée (1962), Mad Max (1979), and Apocalypse Now (1979).

It came to me with a reputation as a science fiction «classic».