Sentences with phrase «of classic science fiction»
This is how he discovered Isaac Asimov, Robert Heinlein, Arthur C. Clarke and the other masters of classic science fiction.
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Time travel is a common trope of classic science fiction.
The game combines the intense action of a third - person shooter, with the persistence and scale of a massive online game, while its television counterpart exudes the sweeping scope and heroic characters of classic science fiction dramas.
Yet the characters» lives are utterly defined and guided by science fiction elements (of the sort that could soon be science reality), and the kind of ethical questions implicitly explored are those of classic science fiction going back to Asimov and Wells, here told with a poignant humanism and thoughtfulness rarely found on the screen today.
On This Week's Show: Like the return of the classic science fiction film Tron to theaters, Neil makes a triumphant return to the Magical Studio in the Sky.
In fact an early scene in which the mythology and back - story of the inhabitants of Barsoom is laid out in voice - over sent shivers up my spine recalling the opening scene of David Lynch's misbegotten 1984 film Dune, a failed big budget adaptation of classic science fiction literature hailed at the time as the «new Star Wars».
Sid Meier's Starships is a good and replayable turn based strategy experience that will certainly appeal to lovers of classic science fiction franchises and to those who appreciate the way the leader of Firaxis managed to make player choices relevant.
Netflix has released the first official teaser of its upcoming reboot of the classic science fiction TV series Lost in Space, which is slated to debut on April 13.
A new exhibition and season of events at the Barbican Centre in London offers a fun, frantic sprint through the scenery of classic science fiction.
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Whereas the tales of Aslan are classic fairy stories all shot through with the light of the new life of Christ, The Space Trilogy is the science fiction epic subjected to the same treatment.
Although generally categorized as a novel for young readers, this Newbery award - winner and science fiction classic, grapple with adult - sized questions about the nature of God and the existence of evil.
The remake of The Day the Earth Stood Still closely parallels Robert Wise's 1951 science fiction film classic that was a Cold War warning shrouded in a Christ allegory.
Our core areas of focus are science - informed fiction, educational non-fiction, and unearthed classics.
In 1938, when Orson Welles broadcasted a radio drama based on the science fiction classic War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells, enough people believed in the tale of invading Martians to cause a near panic.
In the classic 1973 Arthur C. Clarke science fiction novel «Rendezvous With Rama,» a mysterious object is detected outside the orbit of Jupiter as it rapidly approaches the inner solar system.
About Blog Becky reviews all sorts of fiction ranging from classics to science fiction to young adult fiction.
It may not contain any elements of «hard science - fiction» but it is no less a science - fiction films than the classic films I mentioned in my review.
Synopsis: Director Tim Burton («Batman») reinvents one of the most acclaimed and beloved works of science fiction, Pierre Boulle's classic novel «Planet of t...
Critic Consensus: Technically brilliant and emotionally wrenching, District 9 has action, imagination, and all the elements of a thoroughly entertaining science - fiction classic.
Now that I'm an old man of 32, perhaps I have the wisdom and perspective that will fully let me appreciate Kubrick's science fiction classic.
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) is a landmark, science fiction classic - and probably the best science - fiction film of all time about exploration of the unknown.
From A Trip to the Moon (1902) to Arrival (2016), science fiction cinema has produced a body of classics with a broader range of styles, stories, and subject matter than perhaps any other film genre.
Your evening kicks off with The Day the Earth Stood Still, an enduring classic and easily one of the most influential science fiction films of all time.
Per The Hollywood Reporter, this Jennifer Juniper Stratford film is a «science fiction tale told in the style of classic B - movies and outfitted with practical special effects, laser beams and lunatic ideas which are guaranteed to make it the next big midnight movie hit.»
Both David Tennant and Mark Gatiss appeared in The Quartermass Experiment, a live 2005 re-staging of the 1953 science - fiction classic, so they did have experience on the acting side of live science fiction.
Imitation of Life (published on Parallax View here) A comprehensive interpretation of Don Siegel's Invasion of the Body Snatchers, the masterpiece of the classic era in science — fiction cinema By Robert C. Cumbow plus
In the late 1920s, Fritz Lang was the star director of Germany's Ufa Studios, the biggest film studio outside of Hollywood, and one of the most celebrated filmmakers in the world for such ambitious epic visions as Destiny (1921), the Die Nibelungen (1924) films and especially Metropolis (1927), his allegorical science fiction classic that is still considered one of the great films of the silent era.
Forging a strong link in the evolution of modern science fiction films, this classic was nominated for an Oscar, and won an honorary award for outstanding makeup.
A 50th - anniversary 70 mm rerelease of Stanley Kubrick's classic science fiction epic, overseen by Christopher Nolan.
EXCLUSIVE: Charlie Kaufman has been signed to do a page one rewrite of I.Q. 83, an adaptation of Arthur Herzog's classic 1978 science fiction novel that Paramount is now developing as a star vehicle for Steve Carell.
After all, here is a truly visionary film - maker who has been behind some of science fiction cinema's most bona fide classics.
Tobe Hooper's 1986 Invaders From Mars is a remake of William Cameron Menzies» 1953 science - fiction / horror classic, though at times it plays like a direct response to the movies of Steven Spielberg — including the Hooper / Spielberg collaboration Poltergeist.
Despite employing the most hallowed, and yet derided, visual icon in science fiction: that of the Statue of Liberty in the midst of a post-apocalyptic desert landscape, Planet of the Apes remains a modern science fiction classic.
While the story is not exactly something that offers a fresh perspective on science fiction horror, it is executed brilliantly and together with the gameplay, provides an experience that shouldn't be missed by those who enjoyed some of the cult classics like Bioshock and System Shock.
«The World's End» is a proper climax, that's in equal parts a wry, hilarious love - letter to classic British science - fiction and a unique view on maturity and the value of moving forwards, not backwards.
The latest installment in the series based on the classic science fiction film «Planet of the Apes,» War for the Planet of the Apes, is available on DVD and Blu - ray.
Pixels (Blu - ray + Ultraviolet) Details: 2015, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment Rated: PG - 13, suggestive comments, language The lowdown: A science fiction comedy about aliens who misinterpret video feeds of classic arcade games as a declaration of war and retaliate by attacking our planet with games such as Pac - Man, Donkey Kong, Centipede, Space Invaders and Galaga.
The classic Nintendo franchise, Metroid, envisioned through the lens of 60s - 70s science fiction cinema such as 2001, Alien, and Solaris: this was the concept for Rainfallâ $ ™ s most recent production.
Subsequent to Village of the Damned (1995), an uninspired remake of the 1960 classic science fiction film, Carpenter directed three films that virtually deconstruct, reinvent and cross-fertilize the western genre.
Close Encounters of the Third Kind Steven Spielberg's 1977 science fiction classic stars Richard Dreyfuss as a man on a mission after a brush with a UFO.
Hailee Steinfeld, who came to prominence as a girl hunting her father's killer in the Coen brothers» remake of True Grit will have another chance to hone her action chops playing female child soldier Petra in the adaptation of science fiction classic Ender's Game.
Although generally listed in the science - fiction section, Philip Kaufman's adaptation of the classic Jack Finney story easily qualifies as one of the most effective horror films of the late 20th century.
As the title is simply «Godzilla,» and The Scaly One doesn't lift his head for the first third, it seems to have hopes of becoming a science fiction classic.
Horror, science fiction, fantasy and comedy combine in this enjoyable series of stories that channel the tone of the classic»60s TV show — in part because three of the four tales are remakes of Twilight Zone episodes.
1984 is based on the classic science fiction novel by George Orwell, which offered a bleak vision of a future dystopia where one's thoughts and actions were controlled by a totalitarian government ruled by an entity known simply as «Big Brother».
As such, though set in modern times, the film takes a decidedly spoof - y look at science fiction of the 1950s and 1960s, with nods to such classics as The War of the Worlds and The Day the Earth Stood Still.
His contemplative, self - serious sci - fi epic Interstellar certainly doesn't match up to its own lofty comparisons to 2001 and other science fiction classics; that being said, it's still a work of tremendous ambition and heart, with staggering visuals, a powerful Hans Zimmer score, and a commitment to its thematic core over plot minutiae that I personally admire.
Neil Marshall's acclaimed British horror - thriller «The Descent» draws on plenty of other genre classics for visual inspiration, from otherworldly mysteries («Picnic at Hanging Rock») to oudoor adventure («Deliverance,» «Jaws») to science - fiction («Alien») and straight - out horror («The Blair Witch Project»).
With its stunning visual style, sly subversion science - fiction and horror genre conventions and one of the most terrifying and memorable monsters in screen history, «Alien» became an instant film classic from the moment it burst forth — literally — in the summer of 1979.
BUYSOUNDTRAX Records presents STARCRASH, featuring music composed and conducted by John Barry for the 1978 camp science fiction classic directed by Luigi Cozzi (aka Lewis Coates) and starring the beautiful Caroline Munro as Stella Star, Marjoe Gortner as Akton, Christopher Plummer as The Emperor of the Galaxy, introducing David Hasselhoff as his son, Simon, Robert Tessier as Thor and featuring the voice talent of Hamilton Camp as the android Elle, versus the evil might of Count Zarth Arn, played by Joe Spinell.