Sentences with phrase «on a science fiction film»

I'm working on a science fiction film with Steven that's based on a treatment I coauthored with the producer Lynda Obst.

But it's certainly not a riff on anything; it's a science fiction film, but it's not a comment on science fiction films.

Not exact matches

At the time, O'Connell was working on a poster for a science - fiction and horror film festival featuring John Carpenter's 1988 cult classic «They Live» about aliens living incognito among humans.

Questions which the body politic or the academic world are unwilling to confront head - on are often dealt with through the medium of, say, science fiction: think of the Matrix films, or a novel such as Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go.

James Dashner, the author of «The Maze Runner,» a top - selling dystopian science fiction series that was turned into a film trilogy, has been dropped by his publisher, Random House, due to his inclusion on a list of authors who allegedly engaged in harassment.

If the server decides that there are objects with geographic coordinates that fall within the camera's field of view, it superimposes these objects on the picture from the phone camera, in a fashion similar to the way the director of a science fiction movie might use special effects to add a spacecraft to a filmed scene.

In the recent science fiction film Passengers, a huge spaceship flies at half the speed of light on a 120 - year - long journey toward the distant planet Homestead II, where its 5000 passengers are to set up a new home.

The world's last unexplored continent — not a bad setting for a new science fiction movie, once Cameron returns from filming the further adventures of the Na «vi on their native Pandora, in the Alpha Centauri star system.

Stepping inside the pristine education and research space at the Houston Methodist Institute for Technology, Innovation & Education (MITIE) is akin to walking on the set of a science fiction film.

It's a science fiction film that gives you a lot of plot to chew on and some genuine moral dilemmas — about sacrifice, guilt, heinous crimes to protect the greater good and what not.

It was also excellent marketing that drew in all the WOMEN who love space and rockets, who devour science fiction, who flocked to all the Star Wars and Star Trek films when they were growing up, who fought hard to be part of NASA's astronaut program, and on and on.

In fact, Kubrick had to fight the studio in order to not have their idea of science fiction music imposed on the film.

Released in theatres on August 24,1966, «Fantastic Voyage» was not only a film of authentic wonder but a science fiction masterpiece with amazing special effects... the team enters the body of a man where they see first hand the oceans of life within the human body that contains the «corpuscles», «the heart», «the lungs» and other features of the human body through which the crew move through are exquisitely designed in great detail with artistic quality.

Beginning his career as an author and responsible for the source material of Danny Boyle's The Beach in 2000, Alex Garland then directly ventured into the film industry by doing screenplay's - again with Boyle on 28 Days Later and Sunshine - before he eventually took the reigns himself by making his directorial debut with the magnificent science fiction film Ex Machina in 2014.

Commercially, of course, it's prudent to venture into avant garde science fiction territory on a smallish budget, the way Jonathan Glazer did with his truly disorienting and memorable 2013 alien visitation film «Under the Skin.»

The breathtaking, richly eloquent, and visually - poetic film - deliberately filmed at a slow pace - about space travel and the discovery of extra-terrestrial intelligence (many years before Star Wars (1977), Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977), and E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial (1982)-RRB-, was based on the published 1951 short story The Sentinel, written in 1948 by English science fiction author Arthur C. Clarke.

Various Clarke, Kubrick, and science fiction authorities are interviewed throughout the video, providing interesting commentary on their favorite scenes in the movie, as well as insights into the specific personalities of the creators of the film and the book.

But there's one Science Fiction film that towers above all others of the genre, as well as all other films, and that is Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey, which Warner Brothers barely released in time to actually be seen on a big screen during the relevant year.

Not likely to appeal to a wide range audience (this is not a film dependent on special effects or action sequences), the international thriller is the type of science fiction film we don't see often enough.

It's the three pillars of science - fiction as defined by J.G. Ballard; the film plays like a western set on Mars, starring bugs pretending to be men.

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.

its a hard science fiction film that very realistically portrays being stranded on mars.

Q: A lot of science fiction films have to balance being informative about their worlds while also not pandering or relying too heavily on exposition.

This film would go on to inspire and influence how science fiction and action films are made today.

What science fiction films do best is warp our deepest concerns and immediate dangers, so that we can watch them bloom into larger than life stories on the big screen.

OK, maybe not necessary, but it does serve as a reminder that the film (based on the popular book from Andy Weir) may be filled with science... but it's also fiction — hence the label Science - Fscience... but it's also fiction — hence the label Science - Ffiction — hence the label Science - FScience - FictionFiction.

His appearance in the 2006 film, A Scanner Darkly, based on the dystopian science fiction novel by Philip K. Dick, received favorable reviews, and The Lake House, his romantic outing with Sandra Bullock, did not do well at the box office.

Although the genre leans heavy in the science fiction category, and Ridley Scott's Alien historically leans toward horror, the film definitely stands on its own, balancing quite well both genres.

After twenty years of film - making defined by gritty Batman movies, twisty crime thrillers, and trippy science fiction, Christopher Nolan again re-invents himself with what is on the surface is a gripping war movie, but in actuality an exercise in...

All that time hanging out with Nolan has obviously rubbed off: Franklin's directorial debut, The Escape, is a handsomely filmed science - fiction short that wears its influences on its sleeve: it feels like something that Nolan might make over a few days while waiting for Hans Zimmer to finish scoring his latest blockbuster.

When it comes to science fiction, there is one director whose films are on many critics» «best of» lists.

Based on the novel of the same name by Andy Weir, Scott's latest science fiction film sees Damon as Mark Watney, an astronaut who's presumed dead and left behind by his crew on the red planet.

After his first film, the seminal science fiction comedy Dark Star (1974) and his second, the legendary action thriller Assault On Precinct 13 (1976), Carpenter cemented his place in pop culture with the terrifying Halloween (1978), the film widely credited with bringing the slasher sub-genre into the mainstream.

On the one hand, a big budget original science fiction film from director Brad...

«Children Of Men» For a film which is, ostensibly at least, science fiction (it creates one of the most coherent, fascinating futuristic dystopias ever seen on screen), «Children of Men» sums up our War - on - Terror, immigration - panic era better than any contemporary drama could.

It presents a future in 2022 that seems unlikely not because we're not currently on the verge of some great ecological disaster, but because rough math suggests that the Heston character would've been born the year before the film's 1973 release and thus his declaration that he'd never seen a grapefruit (or grass, or cows) should worm its way into the audience consciousness as Soylent Green's statement that it's not serious, thoughtful science - fiction, but rather soapbox and screed timed to coincide with, in 1972, the first international conference on climate change.

Fans of science fiction are in for a treat on cable channel TNT, as alongside a night of Ridley Scott programming, the network is moving ahead with its original series based on the 2013 film Snowpiercer.

Amped - Up Scope And Scale In the first film, the arena where the games are held seemed like a magically science fiction - y realm, where it seemed like the godlike architects of the games (alongside the nefarious President Snow) could reconfigure land, sea, and air, almost on a whim.

With an underrated film comes an underrated actor in Sam Rockwell (Frost / Nixon, Iron Man 2) who pairs up with one of my favorites in Kevin Spacey to deliver a science fiction movie hell bent on breaking all the rules of genre - specific filmmaking.

Rise of the Planet of the Apes isn't a genius piece of science fiction, nor is it on par with the original film for sheer audacity.

Ex Machina is a science - fiction horror film that, like so many others, plays on fears of the future: of artificial intelligence, of the blurred line between human life and its imitations, of online surveillance shaping our experiences.

At least, the historical value excuses most of the shortcomings, this hailing from the end of film noir's height, revealing much on public tastes of the time and even touching upon the Cold War paranoia for which the decade and its parabolic science fiction are recalled.

The fact that the military is fighting aliens is almost a gimmick, as the intensely noisy and destructive scenes of military operations on the ground are nearly identical to other films without a science fiction premise to drive up the special effects quotient.

Give credit to Soderbergh for not turning a thoughtful science fiction story into some Hollywood - ized roller coaster ride or tacking on some ridiculous ending to try to explain everything about the film.

On this episode, the GeekScholars host a spoiler - free discussion and review of Annihilation, a science - fiction, mystery, quasi-horror film about an alien anomaly that forms its own unusual ecosystem on Earth, drastically changing all life within iOn this episode, the GeekScholars host a spoiler - free discussion and review of Annihilation, a science - fiction, mystery, quasi-horror film about an alien anomaly that forms its own unusual ecosystem on Earth, drastically changing all life within ion Earth, drastically changing all life within it.

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.

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.

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A lonely poster on the wall of an EFM booth for the film «Homo Sapiens,» described as a «science fiction [film] and documentary in equal measure.»

The festival focuses on genre films such as horror, science fiction, fantasy, action, Asian, and cult.