Sentences with phrase «fi film about»

The Sand Storm, a short sci - fi film about a dystopian future where water is a precious commodity featuring Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei has just been released for viewing online by its director Jason Wishnow.

Christopher Nolan is in talks to direct «Interstellar,» a sci - fi film about wormholes and time travel written by his brother Jonathan Nolan.

Midnight Special (November 25, 2015) We don't have much to go on about this sci - fi film about a father and son on the run to hide the son's special powers, but it is written and directed by Jeff Nichols, who thoroughly impressed with Take Shelter and Mud.

Inspired by Michael Crichton's 1973 Sci - Fi film about a futuristic theme park populated by artificial beings, comes Johnathan Nolan's (Writer of The Dark Knight, Interstellar) HBO series; Westworld.

The sci - fi film about a dystopian future in which Earth is attacked by aliens, which starred Bruce Willis, Gary Oldman, and Milla Jovovich, managed to rake in $ 263.9 million at the box office despite lukewarm reviews.

Instead, this particular video game movie fits squarely into Johnson's established «brand» and could have easily been an original sci - fi film about The Rock battling giant monsters, had it dropped the references to the original games.

«Looper» Movie Review By Joan Alperin Schwartz «Looper», written and directed by Rian Johnson («Brick») is an intelligent, engrossing, thought provoking, and totally entertaining, sci fi film about time - travel and what a person will or won't do to save the person they love.

There were a few gentle sci - fi films about memory at this year's Sundance, but Marjorie Prime is the most effective, not least because it's as much a small story about family and loss as it a grand discourse on human recollection.

Not exact matches

While his fears about the dangers of Artificial Intelligence may seem like the stuff of sci - fi films let's not forget that Musk has already displayed a remarkable knack for anticipating where our tech is taking us.

Back in 2012, a short film called Montauk from filmmaker Charlie Kessler garnered some attention at The Hamptons Film Festival for its intriguing sci - fi story about a government research lab conducting strange experiments outside of a small American town (which leads to a bunch of weird stuff happening, including a child going missing and a monster from another dimension being released).

In addition to the stunning accomplishment that is the film, it raises a lot of question of the depth of the sci - fi genre — the issues the genre can tackle and what it teaches about God and life.

Colin Farrell stars as Doug Quaid — the role originally played by Arnold Schwarzenegger — while Kate Beckinsale and Jessica Biel are also along for a sci - fi story about implanted memories that says earthbound, rather than venturing to Mars as in the first film.

Midnight Special is a film about fatherhood and faith, with sci - fi elements that are engrossing, mysterious, and will linger with viewers for a long time.

Which would be a shame, because there's much to savor in the film, a dark and difficult sci - fi thriller about one hell of an existential crisis.

Still, it's not a cheap film, I won't stoop to calling it money - grabbing sci - fi, Garland still has a unique vision, and that's what allowed me to rate this movie highly despite my opinions about what should have been done differently.

It's a modest film for those sci - fi connoisseurs who flip out over paranoiac Cold War flicks about outsiders as dangerous foes.

This early Charles Band horror sci - fi kinda reminded me of early John Carpenter films, it does have a charm about it that shines even today.

So I always react well to sci - fi films that are not necessarily about people floating around in silver space suits.

Elysium will mark the young directors second film and ever since its announcement not much has been said about the film other than it was going to be in the sci - fi genre with a lot of underlying sociopolitical messages.

While promoting his upcoming sci - fi film The Martian, screenwriter Drew Goddard also spoke about his involvement in the Netflix series Marvel's Daredevil.

35 years later, the sci - fi film will officially get the sequel we've all known about, but it has confirmed more than Harrison Ford and Ryan Gosling in respective roles.

As a sci - fi film, Winterbottomâ $ ™ s works because of the ideas that get transmitted through the dialogue â $ «a feasible anti-virus chatter about not so distant future epidemics combined with a curious use of the English language that minces word with other foreign languages.

I love everything about it and consider it one of few nearly perfect action sci - fi films.

Their are stigmas attached, especially the idea of a low budget Independent sci - fi action film, that they are right to be concerned about public perception when they are trying to push it as a summer blockbuster.

«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.

What makes Alex Garland's film exhilarating as sci - fi is that it's about the differences between the sciences of biology and psychology.

OPENING THIS WEEK Kam's Kapsules: Weekly Previews That Make Choosing a Film Fun by Kam Williams For movies opening April 10, 2009 BIG BUDGET FILMS Dragonball Evolution (PG for intense action and brief adult language) Sci - fi martial arts adventure, based on the Akira Toriyama novel about a young warrior (Justin Chatwin) who, with a handful of friends, sets out on a quest to save the planet from an evil king (James Marsters) bent on world domination.

It's interesting to see a film about a space alien that doesn't resemble anything we've ever seen before, as most others have some sort of humanoid appearance, (or reptilian, etc.) Indeed, it's a much more plausible depiction of an alien threat than most other sci - fi efforts have featured, almost the opposite in terms of story as The War of the Worlds which featured aliens defeated from exposures to germs and viruses of our own.

When it comes to most major movie franchises (especially within the sci - fi and action genre), there's always an argument after the film's release about who the break - out star of the film may be.

Based on the biographical book authored by sci - fi writer David Gerrold about his own experience adopting his son Sean, this sentimental film makes a strong statement about giving challenged children a loving environment in which to grow.

Catch Me If You Can — Speilberg's film about the hunting down of a con artist is told with a light and breezy touch that's very much a contrast to the darker sci - fi films that preceded it.

Gattaca — Stylish little sci - fi film who's stature has only grown with time, maybe to thee point that it's now overrated, but what can you do about that?

It's not easy to lay out a plot summary for a film this confusing, but apparently it has something to do with evil forces that are being brought about from wireless technologies like PDAs, cell phones and Wi - Fi signals.

OPENING THIS WEEK Kam's Kapsules: Weekly Previews That Make Choosing a Film Fun by Kam Williams For movies opening March 23, 2012 BIG BUDGET FILMS The Hunger Games (PG - 13 for intense violence and disturbing images) Screen adaptation of Suzanne Collins» futuristic sci - fi novel about a 16 year - old girl (Jennifer Lawrence) who volunteers to take her unlucky younger sister's (Willow Shields) place in a nationally - televised fight to the death featuring 24 participants picked by a government lottery.

In this exclusive SoundWorks Collection sound profile we talk with Supervising Sound Editor and Sound Designer Richard King about the sound teams extensive work on Director Christopher Nolan's immersive sci - fi film Interstellar.

What begins as an enjoyable sci - fi drama about mankind's last hope quickly stumbles into a nightmarish thriller with heavy resonances of the underappreciated Paul W.S. Anderson film, «Event Horizon.»

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.

Sci - Fi Movie Page Pick: Based on the classic Robert Heinlein story about alien invaders taking over humans (which served as inspiration later on for the famous 1940s Invasion of the Body Snatchers novel by Jack Finney, which has been filmed three times!).

The nationwide search is on for actors to play the leading roles in the new sci - fi Steven Spielberg film about video games and competition.

Some of the best sci - fi films are non-specific about the time period, a calculated choice by Garland.

squanders an interesting opening on a generic action finale there's nothing offensively terrible about it.This is a low - budget (8 million dollars) original sci - fi concept starring two women and multiple people of color, there's credit to be given to Scott Free Productions, 20th Century Fox, and Scott for producing a movie that seemed to approach film - making exactly the way it should be done with diversity.

A film about Mexican immigrants trying to survive being hunted down on the US border, it couldn't seem more different to the Oscar - winning sci - fi, but the two have a surprising amount in common.

Writer / Director Rian Johnson (Brick) delivers a very entertaining, creative, thrilling and clever sci - fi film that features time travel, dark comedy, romance, metaphysics, and enough action to keep just about any viewer engaged... as long as you enjoy using your brain a bit.

When my editor at the Sci - Fi Movie Page asked me to review the Conan the Barbarian Blu - ray, I initially thought he was talking about the Schwarzenegger film.

While M. Night Shyamalan's After Earth — which stars Will and his son Jaden — has performed below expectations, the sci - fi film has still managed to take in $ 172 million worldwide; meaning, the ex-Fresh Prince's ability to get projects green - lit probably won't take that big a hit (and it won't change his mind about not becoming the go - to guy for sequels).

Although Morgan squanders an interesting opening on a generic action finale there's nothing offensively terrible about it.This is a low - budget (8 million dollars) original sci - fi concept starring two women and multiple people of color, there's credit to be given to Scott Free Productions, 20th Century Fox, and Scott for producing a movie that seemed to approach film - making exactly the way it should be done with diversity.

But it's not all strategizing and superheroes — they're only producing a Mandarin sci - fi film that's only rumored to be about superheroes, and the TV series...

Taking from a popular sci - fi novel about a virtual, 80's - drenched scavenger hunt, Steven Spielberg has yet again shown his talent by turning the fun, flawed novel into another incredibly enjoyable film to add to his impressive filmography.

Though it can technically be labeled as a time travel film, «Safety Not Guaranteed» is more about its characters» relationships than the veracity of the sci - fi premise, and that's thanks to Derek Connolly's excellent script and the fantastic cast.