Sentences with phrase «love for science fiction»

Not exact matches

Regardless of your political affiliations, there's no denying that Americans love turning to science fiction for what it does best — reflecting our own world back to us.

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

When Gravity came out a bit more than a year ago, a thousand science - fiction - loving bloggers leapt to their keyboards to explain why the film was a «game changer»; Boyhood doesn't have a constituency that's quite so... naturally vocal, so this post is here for the next time someone shrugs at the marvels of Boyhood.

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.

JODOROWSKY»S DUNE: Required viewing for anyone who loves science fiction and / or cinema.

Solaris is primarily recommended for those who love science fiction in its purest of forms, like 2001: A Space Odyssey or Blade Runner, and especially for those who are familiar with the novel and previous film but are curious to see another take on the subject.

Curtis, who is only 56, said science - fiction project About Time felt like «a summing up» for a career which has taken in the legendary TV comedy Blackadder, writing work on 1994's Four Weddings and a Funeral and 1999's Notting Hill, as well as the directing of 2003's Love Actually.

Writer - director Jeff Nichols is earning well - deserved praise for his fall release Loving, but less attention was paid to this highly original science - fiction thriller — because it's so difficult to categorize.

What You Need To Know: Touted as an unconventional love story that blends science fiction and romance «in a sweet tale that explores the nature of love and the ways that technology isolates and connects us all,» director Spike Jonze is seemingly making a romance picture for the iGeneration.

Much as J.R.R. Tolkien fashioned a real world out of his love for language, Whedon has developed a frontier town feel and placed it in a science fiction setting, and it works in spades.

I was going to record commentary for my play through of Ace Team's action - packed love letter to terrible «70s science fiction movies, but The Deadly Tower of Monsters brought its own, and it makes the game.

The flagship of the Festival, section Oficial Fantàstic, presents some of the most eagerly awaited movies of the year, such as Only God Forgives by Nicolas Winding Refn - director of Valhalla Rising and Drive; Jim Jarmusch's latest film Only Lovers Left Alive, an eternal love story between two vampires; A Glimpse Inside the Mind of Charles Swann III, a surrealist comedy by the hand of Roman Coppola; The Congress, a spectacular adaptation of Stanislaw Lem directed by Ari Folman - responsible for Vals with Bashir -, that combines animation with a science - fiction story starring Robin Wright and Harvey Keitel; Sitges 2013 will also represent the return of Kiyoshi Kurosawa to the fantastique genre with Real.

I mostly read science fiction and fantasy, and I'm trying to imagine my righteous indignation if KFC published a story in one of those genres — maybe a story of invading aliens who fall in love with KFC and enslave humanity to raise and cook chickens for them 24/7.

I was out with a couple friends one night, and one friend who works in television and is a voracious reader whose tastes are similar to my own (and for some unknown reason had brought his Kindle to the bar) mentioned a science fiction work he'd read and loved.

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Of course I love Steven for my science fiction and I have to give Regina at MaeIdesign.com for my New Adult cover The Only Exception.

Kevin's love for history, archeology, and science has been a tremendous source a material for his writing, feeding his fiction and giving him just the excuse he needs to read the next article, biography, or research paper.

Vera Nazarian is a two - time Nebula Award Nominee and member of Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, a writer and reader with a penchant for moral fables and stories of intense wonder, true love, and intricacy.

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In fact, it's a dream project for a guy who fell in love with comics and science fiction at the age of six and never stopped loving them.

Obsession with work, the economy and plain old love take center stage in this month's science fiction and fantasy selections.While preparing for a documentary about his life in The Atlantis Code, linguist Thomas Lourds is shown a strange artifact featuring a language that even he, the foremost authority on ancient languages, can not identify.

No one suggests that reading romance or science fiction will lead readers to DeLillo and Didion, but Brownians love to tell you how good their man's astronomical sales are for publishing.

Each story tells a complete tale in but a few short minutes with the added promise of a lifelong introduction to new indie writers.You never know, you might just find your next favorite author.Christmas in Love, the third anthology in the Flash Flood series, is a hand - picked selection of master works in romance, science fiction and fantasy themed for Christmas and guaranteed to keep you engaged...

She loves meeting and working with publishers as well as authors of all experience levels — though she has a special passion for working with independent authors and those new to the craft, as well as those writing science fiction, fantasy, horror, romance, suspense, or any combination thereof.

Looking for a good book should be fun, whether you want romantic erotica, explicit, hardcore erotica, BDSM with love, hot bisexual menage, steamy romance — or a sexy read in Science Fiction, Dark Fantasy, Mystery, or Thriller.

-- Science fiction readers love those new names for future objects.

«The 75th annual Hugo Awards — the award for science fiction fans and the books and shows they love — have recently been announced.

For instance, there are fans of science fiction who nonetheless hate post-apocalyptic writing, or who dislike stories with a romantic sub-plot, or who insist on scientific plausibility, in which case your novel about budding love between two stowaways who escape a ravaged Earth on a faster - than - light spaceship might not be well received.

Renee Regent spent most of her life writing for business, but never lost her love of writing stories, especially science fiction, romance, and fantasy.

The first thing that needs to be addressed is that Dreadnought is nothing less than pure eye candy for any science fiction fan who loves watching huge capital ships fighting.

These opening moments and the breathtaking reveal of Mira and its exotic landscape is undeniably intriguing for science - fiction geeks like me who love some space drama in their RPG.

Tony is a geek through and through, and his love for Comic Books, Science Fiction, Heavy Metal, and Video Games knows no bounds.

The game really is the culmination of my love for all things Science Fiction.

It is a very dynamic and arcade game good for people who love science fiction games.

Indulging his lifetime love of science fiction and fantasy, he's currently illustrating a new historical role - playing game for Iron Throne Publishing and developing life - sized promotional cutouts of zombies for WorldWorks Games while also putting the finishing touches on 30 oil paintings for a summer exhibition — all proof of his incredible comfort moving between the worlds of commercial and fine art.

Their miniature fake landscapes and interiors reflect a love of science fiction and dystopian entertainment, an appreciation for great architecture, and an affinity with the Sublime painters of the Hudson River School.

He has a distinct love for the fantastic and the strange, which is a fancier way of saying he has an intense love for fantasy and science fiction.