Sentences with phrase «over a science fiction»

In it, players choose one of three sides — Terran Republic, New Conglomerate, or Vanu Sovereignty — and fight for dominance over a science fiction setting called Auraxis.

Not exact matches

But his less - known work, a trilogy of science fiction novels, contains some of his most profound, thrilling and decidedly adult notions of the universe we live in, the reality - shifting nature of grace and the Creator who rules over it all.

For these reasons, Jews drawn to speculative writing may have an affinity for the science fiction over fantasy.

A less sophisticated illustration of this can be seen in the way that science fiction has envisioned various atheistic scientific futures: over the course of the past century such visions of the future have shifted from being utopias to being dystopias.

The James Tiptree Jr. literary prize for science fiction or fantasy published during 2014 that expands or explores our understanding of gender was announced over the Easter weekend.

As Americans marvel over Alien and Star Trek: The Motion Picture, Voyager 1 beams back pictures stranger than science fiction.

The U.S. Navy turned science fiction into reality over the summer by deploying its first laser beam weapon on the USS Ponce, a transport ship.

The Amazing Story of Quantum Mechanics By James Kakalios (Gotham) Professor and professed nerd Kakalios explains the quantum world through science fiction characters like Buck Rogers and Dr. Manhattan from Watchmen, who «gained independent control over his quantum mechanical wave function» to teleport and change his size.

«I'm trying to tackle a project that a lot of people think is science fiction,» says Laine, who has gone into foreclosure seven times over nearly a decade to keep his company, and his dream, alive.

And there is Seung himself, gazing over the shoulder of postdoc Daniel Berger, whose monitor looks like a science fiction forest, with branches and trunks colored turquoise and cherry, floating unrooted in space.

That runaway growth has given rise to fears that science is taking over (just watch any Hollywood science - fiction potboiler to see how deep - seated those feelings are).

January 19 Seattle's EMP Museum screens over a dozen sci - fi flicks at the Science Fiction + Fantasy Short Film Festival, including one that chronicles a feline space mission.

Events will include a film festival of science fiction films «before and after the discovery of DNA», in Italy, an overnight camp at the Science Museum in London for children from all over Europe, science contests in newspapers, and a «scientific ballet» organised by CERN, the centre for particle physics near science fiction films «before and after the discovery of DNA», in Italy, an overnight camp at the Science Museum in London for children from all over Europe, science contests in newspapers, and a «scientific ballet» organised by CERN, the centre for particle physics near Science Museum in London for children from all over Europe, science contests in newspapers, and a «scientific ballet» organised by CERN, the centre for particle physics near science contests in newspapers, and a «scientific ballet» organised by CERN, the centre for particle physics near Geneva.

We stand at the threshold of many exciting discoveries over the next decade, as the worlds of science fiction become part of scientific reality.

After reviewing over a dozen design submissions, a committee made up of senior Mars Society staff selected a poster created by Bill Wright, a freelance science fiction illustrator, as the first place... Read More

Over 40 dating online may sound like something out of a science fiction novel but it isn't.

Atomica's slapdash script is a hasty aggregation of screenwriting and science fiction clichés, barely feature - length and possibly written over a single weekend.

Its actors, its costume design, its music, and countless other facets of the film are drawn from all over the continent and its diaspora, in a science - fiction celebration of the imaginary country of Wakanda, a high - tech utopia that is a fictive manifestation of African potential unfettered by slavery and colonialism.

The science - fiction genre has always held a special place in the hearts of cinephiles over the decades.

Simultaneously trying to be science fiction, satire, body horror and a psychological thriller, ANTIVIRAL has a lot of moving parts that don't always mesh together; its wickedly interesting ideas and an excess of style help smooth over the many rough patches, though.

While Glazer's latest is indeed a totally trippy experience, you only need to relax and let the film glide over and pull you in to finally realize it's a pretty straight forward science - fiction story told in a completely unique way.

It doesn't hurt that Blomkamp is about to setup shop over at Fox for Alien 5, a move like this could mean even more science fiction coming from Fox in the future.

Move over Trent Reznor, Basement Jaxx is all set to provide the score for science fiction's next big sensation: Nick Frost and Joe Cornish's teenagers - vs - aliens movie Attack the Block.

Growing up in the isolated suburbs of Vancouver Island during the 80s, he obsessed over the minutiae of heavy metal, fantasy art, and science fiction horror films, which he still does to this day.

«But the thing about science fiction and fantasy is that you can never, ever say it's the end, it's over.»

Duncan Jones» latest science fiction effort was moderately budgeted at just over $ 32 million, so this will make a quiet profit and cement Jones» cult status following Moon.

Ernest Cline, author of bestselling science fiction novel Ready Player One, is undoubtedly even more pumped than your average writer, given that a large chunk of his narrative is given over to his Spielberg - fueled»80s obsession.

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.

Dark City (New Line): Like «Blade Runner,» this nightmarish bit of science fiction debuted in theaters with a studio - mandated voice - over intended to help viewers make sense of the film.

In 1939 he and an author friend joined a local Science Fiction League which was presided over by Forrest J. Ackerman.

Surrogates is a good science fiction idea that is either too shallow and underdeveloped to provide the depth necessary to make a lasting impression, or it's a case of a rich and deep story that had been stripped away of all of its high concepts due to lack of budget, studio meddling, and a director who prefers big action sequences over scenes of talking heads.

Midnight Special works because Nichols casts a spell over us, the kind that's all too rare, especially in the science - fiction genre.

But given the title, we're inclined to assume it's a science fiction tale with a Big Idea, possibly linked to a certain large piece of equipment over at CERN.

The overall science fiction idea hangs over the entire movie like a dark cloud; it has no beginning or ending, or center, and it's unchanging.

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».

Over the last 50 years, Stanley Kubrick's science - fiction masterpiece has made fans out of some of the world's greatest living directors.

Watching Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams, Amazon's new sci - fi anthology series based on the author's short stories, is a potent lesson in just what a long shadow the prolific and endlessly imaginative author has cast over the world of contemporary science fiction in all its forms.

«Chappie» is such a misconceived work from a once - celebrated science - fiction visionary that I think that all the people who were lambasting the Wachowskis a few weeks ago over «Jupiter Ascending» now owe them an apology.

And though Garland's darkly - centered sci - fi feature was in essence a talky morality play, keen FX work and an unwaveringly antagonistic score from Geoff Barrow and Ben Salisbury pushed it over the precise to become one of the decade's most unforgettable science - fiction offerings.

A road movie with a science fiction twist, Midnight Special follows Roy (Nicholas stalwart Michael Shannon) and Lucas (Joel Edgerton), estranged childhood friends reunited over the protection of Roy's son, Alton (Jaeden Lieberher), a boy who appears to have supernatural powers that manifest as a spectral white light that emanates from his eyes.

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 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 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 science fiction films in theaters in the fiction films in theaters in the future.

So far, as someone partial to science - fiction movies and the Star Wars saga, this writer has been able to chronicle an opinion on all of the movies since George Lucas signed over the franchise to producers at Disney.

The first news about the supernatural science fiction thriller film Spectral started to come out over three years ago, and big studios including Legendary Pictures and Universal Pictures were involved, yet it is only now that the film is seeing a release — and on Netflix, at that.

I'm totally geeking out over «Blade Runner 2049,» one of those «you either love it or hate it» science fiction films.

As is so often the case with notable screenwriters, Garland has further taken his destiny into his own hands, taking over the director's chair for the first time with Ex Machina, another in a line of high concept science fiction.

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.

This is the lasting appeal of Jack Finney's novel, «The Body Snatchers» and why its concept has inspired countless science fiction movies throughout the years - from three versions of the novel itself (in 1956, 1978 and 1994 as Body Snatchers by director Abel Ferrara of Bad Lieutenant fame) to Heinlein's The Puppet Masters (finally in 1994) and the 1980s remake of The Thing - all of them dealing with people being surreptitiously taken over by alien presences.

Really deserved to win for: Inception Who but Nolan could make over $ 800 million worldwide with a trippy, intricately structured, philosophically provocative science - fiction heist thriller?

The monsters vs. robots science - fiction sequel «Pacific Rim: Uprising» dethroned the superhero sensation with $ 28 million in ticket sales over the weekend, according to studio estimates Sunday.

Over the last few decades science fiction has gone from the drive - in to the most main of the mainstream.