Sentences with phrase «fi film the day»

In the classic 1962 sci - fi film The Day of the Triffids, a race of vicious vegetables spreads terror across the planet after a meteor shower blinds those who have seen it.

It has become almost impossible to make a sci - fi film these days that doesn't spend its last 30 minutes in a multiple - orgasm roar of screaming, shooting and shattering explosions.

By the conclusion of Garland's adaptation, it's clear he understands and respects VanderMeer's point to the extreme, even if the expectations of a mid - to major - budget sci - fi film these days demand traditional closure.

Not exact matches

Controlling electronic devices using your brain may sound like something straight out of a sci - fi film, but it's all in a day's work for Toronto's «little piece of techno - Neverland.»

The former commodities trader was instrumental in the campaign to leave the European Union (EU), and following the referendum's passage, Farage invoked the 1996 sci - fi action film «Independence Day» by declaring June 23 «our independence day» from failed socialist rules, regulations and immigration policiDay» by declaring June 23 «our independence day» from failed socialist rules, regulations and immigration policiday» from failed socialist rules, regulations and immigration policies.

The film is often credited as the first sci - fi neo-noir, where latter - day Sam Spades pilot flying cars.

Photo Credits: Anthony Holloway Early in October 2014, we were delighted to be able to form a creative partnership with Abandon Normal Devices (AND) in order to deliver «Watch the Skies» a weekend celebration of Sci - Fi film at Jodrell Bank as part of the British Film Institute's «Days of Fear and Wonder» series.

What is interesting is (like some original sci - fi concepts) back in 66 when this film was made the idea was of course deemed fantasy, these days I don't think it is, well with robots anyway.

With all the emphasis these days on big screen blockbuster action, superhero, sci - fi, and fantasy movies these days, it is refreshing to watch a well - made, well presented, historical based film that can touch you on a personal level.

This is where you'll find the best mind - bending sci - fi, out of this world fantasy, and bloody good horror films all hours of the day... and night — in jaw - dropping High Definition and crisp Dolby Digital 5.1 surround sound.

In Turner Classic Movies: Must - See Sci - Fi, fifty unforgettable films are profiled, including beloved favorites like The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951) and Fantastic Voyage (1966), groundbreaking shockers like Planet of the Apes (1968) and Alien (1979), and lesser - known landmarks like Things to Come (1936) and Solaris (1972).

«Independence Day» was a fantastic action / sci - fi film.

It's an action, comedy, sci - fi adventure that tries and that's more than a lot of films these days.

«Self / Less» is only days away from coming to the movie theaters, and it would appear that this film is following in the footsteps of other sci - fi films that aim to show what could be part of our reality.

Despite Blade Runner's modern day status as one of the greatest films ever made, the 1982 sci - fi noir was not as well - received upon its initial theatrical release as many fans might think.

The Gerard Butler film was moved off of Oct. 2 after 20th Century Fox moved up Ridley Scott's star - studded sci - fi movie «The Martian» to the same day.

This sci - fi / fantasy / adventure film has some of the best production design in years, capturing an alternate universe Europe in the»30s and»40s that feels inspired by steampunk and the kind of fantastic stories of adventure seen in the serials of the day.

I'm not convinced a remake was needed for «Robocop,» one of the better sci - fi films of its day and one that beyond a few dated effects (helloooooo ED - 209) holds up very well.

«The Last Days On Mars» Synopsis: A group of scientists discover evidence of bacterial life on Mars, only to be stranded there What You Need To Know: There's plenty of giant sci - fi epics on the way in 2013, but given the run of the past few years, we're more excited about the potential sleepers out there, and no film holds greater promise to be the next «Moon» than «The Last Days On Mars.»

Films that might have fit this putative strand included the charming but overlong Timeless Stories, co-written and directed by Vasilis Raisis (and winner of the Michael Cacoyannis Award for Best Greek Film), a story that follows a couple (played by different actors at different stages of the characters» lives) across the temporal loop of their will - they, won't - they relationship from childhood to middle age and back again — essentially Julio Medem - lite, or Looper rewritten by Richard Curtis; Michalis Giagkounidis's 4 Days, where the young antiheroine watches reruns of Friends, works in an underpatronized café, freaks out her hairy stalker by coming on to him, takes photographs and molests invalids as a means of staving off millennial ennui, and causes ripples in the temporal fold, but the film is as dead as she is, so you hardly notice; Bob Byington's Infinity Baby, which may be a «science - fiction comedy» about a company providing foster parents with infants who never grow up, but is essentially the same kind of lame, unambitious, conformist indie comedy that has characterized U.S. independent cinema for way too long — static, meticulously framed shots in pretentious black and white, amoral yet supposedly lovable characters played deadpan by the usual suspects (Kieran Culkin, Nick Offerman, Megan Mullally, Kevin Corrigan), reciting apparently nihilistic but essentially soft - center dialogue, jangly indie music at the end, and a pretty good, if belated, Dick Cheney joke; and Petter Lennstrand's loveably lo - fi Up in the Sky, shown in the Youth Screen section, about a young girl abandoned by overworked parents at a sinister recycling plant, who is reluctantly adopted by a reconstituted family of misfits and marginalized (mostly puppets) who are secretly building a rocket — it's for anyone who has ever loved the Tintin moon adventures, books with resourceful heroines, narratives with oddball gangs, and the legendary episode of Angel where David Boreanaz turned into a Muppet.

INDEPENDENT & FOREIGN FILMS 4:44 Last Day on Earth (Unrated) Apocalyptic sci - fi adventure about a Manhattan couple (Willem Dafoe and Shanyn Leigh) coming to terms with the fact that world is ending in 24 hours.

Fantastic Planet, the Sydney horror, sci - fi and fantasy film festival, will kick off on the 22nd of March for eleven days of mind - bending, gut - wrenching action.

His collaborations with Danny Boyle, 28 Days Later and Sunshine, were frightening sci - fi films unafraid to wrestle with deeper philosophical questions.

On October 31, it was reported that «Independence Day» director Roland Emmerich was directing a cheapie sci - fi film for $ 5 million.

Britain fared better, with my favourite sci - fi horror film in a long time, Glazer's Under the Skin, and my favourite entertainment film of the year, the conventional, but charming Pride, while the flawed Mr. Turner impressively reflects the great painter's sun worship through Dick Pope's widescreen cinematography.Highlights of my year included being on the FIPRESCI jury at the Hong Kong IFF, where I admired Yang Hen's third feature, Na pian hu shui (Lake August), and a couple of first features among others, as well as attending the amazing HK film market for the first time, where I saw one of my three 2014 «films for the ages», Tsai's Journey to the West; and seeing a nitrate print of Hitchcock's Rebecca at the George Eastman House in Rochester (where they are doing a three - day all - nitrate festival in May, 2015!).

Audiences can look forward to a wide range of film releases in 2014 including the upcoming comedy The Stag starring Andrew Scott, Hugh O'Conor and Amy Huberman in March, the sci - fi film The Last Days on Mars directed by Ruairi Robinson and Calvary starring Brendan Gleeson in April, and Lenny Abrahamson's Frank starring Domhnall Gleeson and Michael Fassbender in May.

Alex Garland, who wrote terrific sci - fi films «28 Days Later» and «Sunshine,» wrote and directed the movie that explores the following idea: «To erase the line between man and machine is to obscure the line between men and gods.»

Days after wowing a Comic - Con International crowd with footage from Christopher Nolan's upcoming sci - fi film, Paramount Pictures has released the trailer online.

A cartoonist, novelist and screenwriter, Alex Garland, who's most commonly known for writing films such as The Beach, 28 Days Later, Sunshine, Never Let Me Go, and Dredd, has now made his directorial debut with Ex Machina, a sci - fi cautionary tale that challenges viewers with a variety of existential questions in regards to artificial intelligence.

SKIP THIS MOVIE IF: you are a real sci - fi lover and plot holes send you into a days - long funk OR you are apt to sprain an ankle just watching Olivia Wilde and Amanda Seyfried sprint in high heels throughout the film

Three all new character posters from the sci - fi action film «Universal Soldier: Day of Reckoning» have been released.

Chintzy adaptations of Broadway staples may largely be propping up the movie - musical these days, but it's the far lower - fi films of Irishman John Carney that best serve the genre.

From a business perspective, though, it's understandable that Paramount would want to cast a wider net with Star Trek Beyond, especially since the competition during Summer 2016 is going to be fierce - with films like the Ghostbusters reboot and Bourne 5 playing in theaters near the same time as Beyond (while sci - fi sequel Independence Day: Resurgence will have opened a month earlier).

Alex Garland is no stranger to sci - fi and has written a plethora of great films, which include 28 Days Later, Dredd, and Sunshine.

A trio of reissues, all 4K restorations, highlight the Labor Day weekend film offerings: Steven Spielberg's 1977 mashed - potato - stacking sci - fi classic «Close Encounters of the Third Kind,» with Richard Dreyfuss; Merchant - Ivory's 1983 India - set drama «Heat...

Wong's best films are highly specific in their examinations of the desire for connection — one character channels his loneliness into the collection of pineapple cans, another rearranges the apartment of the object of her desire, another recasts his life and loves as a sci - fi adventure story — and Days of Being Wild, for all its admirable qualities, is comparatively lacking in that specificity.

A trio of reissues, all 4K restorations, highlight the Labor Day weekend film offerings: Steven Spielberg's 1977 mashed - potato - stacking sci - fi classic «Close Encounters of the Third Kind,» with Richard Dreyfuss; Merchant - Ivory's 1983 India - set drama «Heat and Dust,» starring Julie Christie; and Jacques Becker's 1960 crime drama «Le Trou.»

If all that sounds like a must - see for sci - fi fans, Annihilation just had its profile boosted by Netflix's groundbreaking deal, which Deadline reports will see the film premiere worldwide just 17 days after its theatrical debut.

If Groundhog Day was a sci - fi action flick, it would look something like the newly released trailer for Bourne director Doug Liman's film Edge of Tomorrow.

Casting and pre-production are in full swing for Roland Emmerich's anticipated sci - fi blockbuster sequel Independence Day 2, and now comes news that Vivica A. Fox, who co-starred in the original 1996 film, is returning for the new installment.

These films were thought to be throwaway sci - fi actioners but instead we were given modern day science fiction masterpieces.

David Ayer's new Netflix original sci - fi film Bright, starring Will Smith and Joel Edgerton, is set to premiere next month, but days prior, the picture's official soundtrack will be made available.

I caught Kumiko the Treasure Hunter, Kate Barker - Froyland's Song One with Anne Hathaway, the Nick Cave doc 20,000 Days on Earth, Gregg Araki's White Bird in a Blizzard and midnight sci - fi film The Signal at 11:45 PM to end my night.

He's made mincemeat out of most other movie genres since day one: the musical (Popeye), the detective film (The Long Goodbye), the war film (M * A * S * H), the western (McCabe and Mrs. Miller), the sci - fi film (Quintet) as well as skewering politics with his cable - TV series Tanner»88 and Hollywood with The Player.

LOS ANGELES, April 3, 2017 — Alien Day returns on April 26, a nod to planet LV - 426 from the iconic ALIEN films, as the countdown continues for the highly anticipated new chapter in Ridley Scott's groundbreaking ALIEN sci - fi thriller, ALIEN: COVENANT, releasing in theaters worldwide beginning May 10.

Sporting a new haircut for her current project (the sci - fi film «Annihilation» from «Ex Machina» director Alex Garland), Rodriguez got candid about her journey to success, talking about the days when she would sustain herself on little more than ramen while working as an extra and later as a guest star on shows like «Happy Endings.»

But worryingly, the reviews for the ambitious sci - fi film will remain under lock and key until the day before the film's release.

Paul Whitington of the Irish Independent is in studio to review this week's big releases - Oscar - nominated civil rights film Selma, the Wachowski's sci - fi Jupiter Ascending, the latest offering from Aardman - Shaun the Sheep, and Irish director Terry McMahon's Patrick's Day.

Alex Garland, screenwriter of 28 Days Later, Dredd and Never Let Me Go will be stepping into the directors chair for the first time for a sci - fi film based on his own script called Ex-Machina.

As the film's many trailers so bombastically boast, they are the creators of that overhyped sci - fi phenomenon of a couple year's back, Independence Day (they were also behind another inexplicable success, 1994's ridiculous StarGate, as well as 1992's unspeakably horrid Jean - Claude Van Damme - Dolph Lundgren battle royale Universal Soldier).