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WALL - E * was * the best Sci - Fi film of the year and it's because it was a BRILLIANT film.
One of the best sci - fi films of the year?
The hype is strong with this one, and while it didn't quite live up to it, it's still one of the best action / sci - fi films of the year.
Not exact matches
The upcoming reboot of the Ghostbusters franchise features one of the funniest ensemble casts of any film this year: Along with stars Kristen Wiig, Melissa McCarthy, Leslie Jones and Kate McKinnon, the sci - fi comedy will also feature appearances by Cecily Strong, Bill Murray, Dan Ackroyd and a bunch of other big names.
The 14 - year - old has raised over $ 20,000 in hopes of sending hundreds of young girls to see the upcoming sci - fi film A Wrinkle in Time because «representation matters,» she says.
Though Vanilla Sky's sometimes surreal trappings found the film receiving a mixed reception at the box office, the same could not be said for the following year's massively successful sci - fi chase film Minority Report, directed by Steven Spielberg, or of the historical epic The Last Samurai, directed by Edward Zwick.For his next film, Cruise picked a role unlike any he'd ever played; starring as a sociopathic hitman in the Michael Mann psychological thriller Collateral.
I've been familiar with Keir Dullea's work for over thirty years, having seen most of his important film roles and even the oddball sci - fi TV series, The Star Lost, he did in Canada in 1973.
It is also one of the best sci - fi films of the last several years.
The two time Oscar - winner has spent most of her time behind the camera for the past five years, following her last feature film starring role in Neill Blomkamp's 2013 sci - fi movie Elysium.
Matthieu Kassovitz, «Babylon A.D.» (2008) One of the more recent director - studio feuds, «La Haine» director Matthieu Kassovitz's frustrations with 20th Century Fox over «Babylon A.D.,» a sci - fi action film he'd been developing for six years before going through tremendous professional pains to shoot and cut it, is among the most notorious.
One of the only other outright sci - fi films in this year's Sundance line - up, Robot and Frank stars Frank Langella as a curmudgeonly old man who receives a caretaker robot (seen above).
One of my all - time favorite sci - fi films is returning to theaters this year for its 20th anniversary.
A film that failed to impress critics 30 years ago but which now seems eerily prescient in its depiction of a futuristic police state beset by economic instability and the increasing toxicity of TV culture (Stephen King's source novel is set in 2025, with screenwriter Steven E de Souza backdating the action to 2017), The Running Man is among the most thematically rich sci - fi offerings in the Arnie canon.
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.
Luckily, there is a strong enough story and above - average acting to carry over into the rest of the film, making it one of the best sci - fi experiences of the year.
The film is set to hit theaters in September of this year and be sure to keep an eye out for this one because it looks to be an unforgettable journey into the sci - fi genre.
«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.»
Adapted from Fanboys screenwriter Ernie Cline's debut novel of the same name, this dystopian sci - fi is absolutely jam - packed with»80s pop culture references, making it one of our most anticipated films of next year.
Pacific Rim Uprising Rated PG - 13 for sequences of sci - fi violence and action, and some language Rotten Tomatoes Score: 46 % In Theaters Years after the events of the first film, John Boyega (Finn from Star Wars) is a promising young Jaeger pilot who has abandoned his military career to explore a life of crime.
«The Shape of Water» leads all films this year with 14 nominations including Best Picture, Sally Hawkins for Best Actress, Richard Jenkins for Best Supporting Actor, Octavia Spencer for Best Supporting Actress, Guillermo del Toro for both Best Director and Best Original Screenplay alongside Vanessa Taylor, Dan Laustsen for Best Cinematography, Paul Denham Austerberry, Shane Vieau, and Jeff Melvin for Best Production Design, Sidney Wolinsky for Best Editing, Luis Sequeira for Best Costume Design, Best Hair and Makeup, Best Visual Effects, Best Sci - Fi or Horror Movie, and Alexandre Desplat for Best Score.
Animated feature «The Croods» «Despicable Me 2» WINNER: «Frozen» «Monsters University» «The Wind Rises» Action movie «The Hunger Games: Catching Fire» «Iron Man 3» WINNER: «Lone Survivor» «Rush» «Star Trek Into Darkness» Actor in an action movie Henry Cavill — «Man of Steel» Robert Downey Jr. — «Iron Man 3» Brad Pitt — «World War Z» WINNER: Mark Wahlberg — «Lone Survivor» Actress in an action movie WINNER: Sandra Bullock — «Gravity» Jennifer Lawrence — «The Hunger Games: Catching Fire» Evangeline Lilly — «The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug» Gwyneth Paltrow — «Iron Man 3» Comedy WINNER: «American Hustle» «Enough Said» «The Heat» «This Is the End» «The Way Way Back» «The World's End» Actor in a comedy Christian Bale — «American Hustle» WINNER: Leonardo DiCaprio — «The Wolf of Wall Street» James Gandolfini — «Enough Said» Simon Pegg — «The World's End» Sam Rockwell — «The Way Way Back» Actress in a comedy WINNER: Amy Adams — «American Hustle» Sandra Bullock — «The Heat» Greta Gerwig — «Frances Ha» Julia Louis - Dreyfus — «Enough Said» Melissa McCarthy — «The Heat» Sci - fi / horror movie «The Conjuring» WINNER: «Gravity» «Star Trek Into Darkness» «World War Z» Foreign language film WINNER: «Blue Is the Warmest Color» «The Great Beauty» «The Hunt» «The Past» «Wadjda» Documentary feature «The Act of Killing» «Blackfish» «Stories We Tell» «Tim's Vermeer» WINNER: «20 Feet from Stardom» Song «Atlas» — Coldplay — «The Hunger Games: Catching Fire» «Happy» — Pharrell Williams — «Despicable Me 2» WINNER: «Let It Go» — Robert Lopez and Kristen Anderson - Lopez — «Frozen» «Ordinary Love» — U2 — «Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom» «Please Mr. Kennedy» — Justin Timberlake, Oscar Isaac and Adam Driver — «Inside Llewyn Davis» «Young and Beautiful» — Lana Del Rey — «The Great Gatsby» Score WINNER: Steven Price — «Gravity» Arcade Fire — «Her» Thomas Newman — «Saving Mr. Banks» Hans Zimmer — «12 Years a Slave»
Read a recent roundtable with Industrial Light & Magic (ILM) visual effects supervisor Bill George, who oversaw the creation of the special effects in this year's Touchstone Pictures sci - fi action film «I Am Number Four.»
A Legendary Pictures production acquired by Netflix after the film parted ways with Universal earlier this year, Spectral is a big action movie with a tinge of sci - fi to it, anchored by an appealing collection of character actor or perennial supporting players at its centre (James Badge Dale, Emily Mortimer, Stephen Root and Bruce Greenwood among them).
One of the best Sci - Fi films in years, in fact.
This year continues the trend of sci - fi films that are sure to dazzle audiences of movie theaters all around the globe.
A heartrending love story tops our list of the year's best films, which also features a kids» - eye view of Florida, political horror, erotic thrills, sci - fi noir, ghosts, grief and communism
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.
I ask because some of the «sci - fi» films of the last several years are already becoming dated as a result of our real world advances with technology.
It may not have quite stuck the landing, but Alex Garland's Ex Machina was still one of the more entertaining sci - fi films of recent years, full of heady ideas and indelible performances.
The highly anticipated sequel to Ridley Scott's 1980s sci - fi classic is directed by Arrival and Sicario filmmaker Denis Villeneuve and takes place 30 years after the events of the first film.
While moviegoers have seen a lot of Teresa Palmer over the past few years in films such as The Sorcerer's Apprentice and Bedtime Stories, for her upcoming sci - fi action thriller I Am Number Four, we're going to see a new...
Though the more futuristic stuff isn't too distracting considering Hollywood's current obsession with dystopian sci - fi films like «The Hunger Games,» the decision to cast a 24 - year - old actor in the lead role (playing a 16 - year - old instead of the 12 - year - old that appears in the book) feels wrong for a number of reasons.
Whether this proves a breakout in the traditional manner (ie leading toward a sci - fi / superhero franchise in a year or two) would seem to be in some doubt, simply because Forsyth and Pollard are established visual artists for whom this film is largely an extension and enlargement of themes they'd made their careers anyway.
Fresh off taking a warmed - over Cloverfield «sequel» and polishing it into the marketing triumph of this year's Super Bowl, Netflix has scooped up another discarded sci - fi project for its ever - growing roster of original films.
By far the best sci - fi film I've seen yet this year, and proof that international films make for more interesting dynamics, Snowpiercer is easily the original action film a summer full of big budget explosions needs.
This has the potential to not only be the best Predator film yet, but also the single best sci - fi action flick of the year.
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!).
I've lost count of how many «versions» there now are of his early sci - fi masterpiece Blade Runner (1982) and, after years of threats, that film will have a sequel this October, Blade Runner 2049, though Scott opted to pass the directorial reigns over to Denis Villeneuve (Arrival).
Last year Ridley Scott delivered the crowd - pleasing sci - fi survival drama The Martian, and now he's busy shooting Alien: Covenant, the first film in what is supposed to be a new trilogy that will lead up to the events of the original Alien from 1979.
South Korea's Bong Joon - ho delivers a star - studded, dystopian sci - fi thriller — one of the best films of the year.
Michelle Monaghan has shown her versatility in a wide variety of films over the years, from comedies like «Kiss Kiss Bang Bang» and «Made of Honor» to dramas like «Gone Baby Gone» and «North Country» to sci - fi thrillers like «Source Code» and «Eagle Eye.»
There are a number of elements which appear to have been influenced by sci - fi films from the last thirty years or so.
Other highlights from 2016 (and also must see films) have included the very informative and poignant documentary, «Maya Angelou and Still I Rise,» by Rita Coburn Whack and Bob Hercules; Mick Jackson's «Denial,» the gripping Holocaust denial tale with compelling performances from Rachel Weisz and Timothy Spall; Paul Verhoeven's «Elle,» with its great Isabelle Huppert performance; the remarkably thoughtful sci - fi film, «Arrival,» by Denis Villeneuve; Tom Ford's «Nocturnal Animals,» with its outstanding performances from Amy Adams, Jake Gyllenhaal and Michael Shannon; David Mackenzie's «Hell or High Water,» this summer's sleeper hit; Cristian Mungiu's «Graduation,» winner of the Best Director prize at Cannes; and Cristi Puiu's «Sieranevada,» winner of the top prize at this year's Chicago International Film Festival.
He followed that film with one hugely disappointing sequel / rehash, 2007's «Hostel: Part II,» and in intervening years has flirted with a host of projects which never came to pass (the Stephen King adaptation «Cellular,» a feature - length expansion of his «Grindhouse» short, a sci - fi film called «Endangered Species,» etc.), stepped in front of the camera for friends («Inglourious Basterds,» «Aftershock «-RRB- and helped bring the Netflix series «Hemlock Grove» to life.
They've also announced dates for some forthcoming films like the sequels to Fifty Shades of Grey, and also shifted some films arriving over the next few years, such as the video game adaptation Warcraft from Duncan Jones, the sci - fi sequel Pacific Rim 2 from Guillermo del Toro and the first official movie that kicks off Universal's classic movie monsters franchise reboot, The Mummy.
Synchronicity — Sci - fi can be a tricky bet at smaller festivals like this (especially when you hear them being compared to much larger budget and classic films like Blade Runner), but TAD has chosen a few good ones the last couple of years and with director Jacob Gentry's track record of The Signal behind him, there's at least some solid talent involved.
Best known previously for Paddy Considine «s short «Dog Altogether» (the basis for «Tyrannosaur «-RRB- and Samantha Morton «s «The Unloved,» he shoots the film with the perfect mix of urban grit and sci - fi sheen, with some of the most striking lighting of the year.
After a six - year hiatus, Niccol went back to original sci - fi for In Time, a mediocre film with echoes of Gattaca that disappointed stateside but performed well overseas.
A lot of noise has been made this year over how fans of Science Fiction should go see some of the larger studio - produced Sci - Fi flicks like Jupiter Ascending and Chappie if they want to see more «original» science fiction films in theaters in the future.