Sentences with phrase «high concept sci»

Extracted Directed by: Nir Paniry Starring: Sasha Roiz, Dominic Bogart, Jenny Mollen Rating: Not Yet Rated Release Date: TBA TRAILER SCORE: 7/10 Thoughts by TSR: Selling a high concept sci - fi film like this is hard enough.

Director Pete Travis and screenwriter Alex Garland have managed to mix a grindhouse movie, high concept sci - fi and character study into one film.

This high concept sci - fi keeps you guessing how it will end it until it does and suddenly it seems obvious.

The latest venture from Andy and Lana Wachowski's looks a lot better from a trailer point of view as a high concept sci - fi event movie, instead of positioning the film as a sort of space adventure love story.

When Alex Garland's high concept sci - fi movie flopped at the US box office, some hacks sounded the death knell for the kind of adult mid-budget movie it represents.

Not exact matches

After two high - concept sci - fi epics (Inception and Interstellar), filmmaker Christopher Nolan returns with historic WWII epic about a dramatic rescue.

That's all the more impressive given his fixation on high - concept sci - fi — but he knows how to give it a good hook.

Antiviral is a high - concept sci - fi film debut from Brandon Cronenberg, son of legendary director David Cronenberg.

«Westworld,» the 1973 sci - fi film conceived by novelist Michael Crichton that marked his directorial debut, is often regarded a high - concept precursor to his later work, «Jurassic Park,» in which a high - tech amusement park descends into chaos when its primary attractions — in this case automated denizens of an idealized Old West, rather than T - Rexes and velociraptors — turn on the attendees.

It's an almost exceptionally high - concept premise that is, at the outset, employed to agreeable effect by filmmaker Alexander Payne, as the director, working from a script cowritten with Jim Taylor, delivers a briskly - paced opening stretch that's rife with uncommonly compelling elements - including a typically engaging turn by Damon and a proliferation of sci - fi - themed ideas and interludes.

It's the stuff of a 1980s high - concept, sci - fi comedy — except it -LSB-...]

Like much sci - fi, it expands on a high - concept short story — in this case, All You Zombies by Robert A Heinlein.

Most of the ingredients are here for something special - a decent enough cast, the man behind the visuals of most of Christopher Nolan's works, and a high - concept sci - fi thriller that delves into such heady topics as «neo-ludites» and the...

I did not expect this after Never Let Me Go, which was heavy drama and emotionally just devastating, and Sunshine, which was a high concept psycho - sci - fi - thriller.

Or can it be successfully positioned as a high - concept, commercially mainstream sci - fi entertainment?

«In Time» is one of those high - concept sci - fi movies that are too complex to explain in a single paragraph — the easiest way to describe it is as a less crazy version of «Logan's Run» — but it's a pretty cool concept that, if executed correctly, could make for a really fun piece of escapism entertainment.

The two regular engage in what Morty's father / Rick's son - in - law calls «high - concept sci - fi rigmarole.»

HBO has released the trailer of its high - concept sci - fi TV series Westworld season 2's trailer.

Already a bestselling novelist and one half of a long collaborative partnership with Danny Boyle that included writing screenplays for «28 Days Later» and «Sunshine» after Boyle adapted Garland's «The Beach» in 2000, Garland's debut is unsurprisingly a talky, high - concept sci - fi story set in a contained environment, essentially functioning as a three - hander.

First - time screenwriter Jack Paglen provides this high - concept story, which borrows many concepts from quite a few popular classic sci - fi works, including «Star Trek: TNG».

High - concept sci - fi?

He's staged a crowd - pleasing game of cat - and - mouse, jazzed up by sci - fi flourishes and a high concept.

One of a recent wave of high - concept sci - fi films, Morgan tries hard to be compelling and, to its credit, succeeds a bit better than most such efforts.

The first, Midnight Special, which may or may not be named after the Clearwater Creedence Revival song, is a high - concept sci - fi tackling themes of fatherhood and the supernatural.

Since its PC release, Warframe has boasted what's probably the most kickass high concept on the market; a F2P yet massively expanded take on Mass Effect 3's cooperative multiplayer, which casts us as ancient spacefaring ninjas free to bring death to power - armoured marines, robots and zombies with outlandish guns and Sci - Fi samurai gear.

Sci - fi author, roboticist and polymath Daniel H. Wilson is apparently obsessed with voice - controlled apparatus — this is a high - concept, voice - control - only game written by Wilson and programmed by the five - dude team at Mountain Machine.

The Fall Nintendo Switch Developed By: Over the Moon Published By: Over the Moon Category: Action, Adventure, Platformer, Puzzle Release Date: 5.10.18 High - concept sidescrolling sci - fi point»n' click adventure?

High - concept sidescrolling sci - fi point»n' click adventure?