Sentences with phrase «set in a near future»

«This novel is set in the near future and tells a horrifying story of a government takeover by an ultra-extreme religious group dominated by men and supported by their passive wives.

Set in the near future, it follows Wolverine and an ailing Professor X (Patrick Stewart), who leaving their hiding place on the Mexican border to help a young mutant (Dafne Keen).

In Dave Eggers's The Circle (a 2013 novel and 2017 movie), set in the near future, an eponymous social media monopoly embodying the worst elements of Apple, Google, and Facebook combined prepares to restructure the American electoral process.

Set in the near future, the film also recreates the sense of deep isolation in those movies as Sam (Rockwell) runs a mining operation alone on the far side of the moon.

«Interstellar,» the latest blockbuster film by Christopher Nolan that opened Friday, is a science - fiction movie set in the near future when humanity must depart Earth and find a new home.

Set in the near future, Futuristic Violence and Fancy Suits; tells the story of the mundane, slightly overweight, Zoey Ashe and her smelly cat.

Those are the supposedly surefire selling points behind this entertaining, something - for - everyone contrivance, set in the near future and embellished with flagrant product placement for Dr. Pepper.

Set in the near future, this thought - provoking, action - filled though inconsistent time - travel tale centers on a mob hitman (Joseph Gordon - Levitt) who kills people sent back in time from the even more distant future, only to hesitate when one of those targets turns out to be his older self (played by Bruce Willis).

Set in the near future, Jake Paltrow's post-apocalyptic western stars Michael Shannon as a father trying to keep his children alive on a nearly barren planet where water has become the most valuable resource.

Repo Men (R for profanity, graphic violence, grisly images, sexuality and nudity) Sci - fi thriller, set in the near future, about an ex-collections enforcer (Jude Law) who fell behind on payments on an artificial heart who finds himself on the run from another repossession man (Forest Whitaker) ready to rip the life - saving device right out of his chest.

While set in the near future, Robocop is absolutely a product of the 80's.

Featuring an impressive cast including Colin Farrell, Rachel Weisz, Léa Seydoux, John C Reilly, Ben Whishaw, Olivia Colman and Michael Smiley, The Lobster is a blackly funny love story set in a near future where finding love is a matter of life or death.

Into the Forest Rated R for a scene of violence involving rape, language and some sexuality / nudity Rotten Tomatoes Score: 79 % Set in the near future, two sisters (Evan Rachel Wood and Ellen Page) who have moved off the grid must figure out how to stay alive after an apocalyptic event takes place.

Set in a near future when water has become the most precious and dwindling resource on the planet, one that dictates everything from the macro of political policy to the detailed micro of interpersonal family and romantic relationships.

The story is set in a near future, where anyone who doesn't fit the government's idea of clean is marked as a «dirty computer.»

Set in a near future where the government ruthlessly enforces a «one child» policy, «What Happened to Monday» has Rapace playing illegal siblings who've been raised by their grandfather Terrence Settman (Willem Dafoe) to take turns pretending to be the same woman.

Official Premise: Set in the near future, Frank, a retired cat burglar, has two grown kids who are concerned he can no longer live alone.

The film is set in the near future and centers on an elderly ex-jewel thief (Frank Langella) whose kids (James Marsden and...

It's set in a near future where overpopulation and global climate change has been catastrophic for the food supply and the culture has become hostile to science, as if it's the cause of the problems rather than the only hope to solve them.

Starring Colin Farrell, Rachel Weisz, Lea Seydoux, John C Reilly, Ben Whishaw, Olivia Colman and Michael Smiley, The Lobster is a blackly funny love story set in a near future where finding love is a matter of life or death.

«Secret America»: Set in the near future, this series explores a society where the threat of terrorism has turned the US government into an autocratic state.

Spike Jonze's ingenious and funny romantic comedy used a story set in the near future to examine the impact of technology on our lives.

Set in the near future, Christopher Nolan's film depicts a time when an agricultural crisis has brought the world to its knees and a team of explorers are tasked with a mission to journey into the universe to find a new home for humankind.

Set in the near future, the film depicts a time when an agricultural crisis has brought the world to its knees and a team of explorers are tasked with a mission to journey into the universe to find a new home for humankind.

Set in the near future where water...

Set in the near future, the film centers on a man who decides to shrink himself.

The story is set in the near future, where humans live in isolation and interact vicariously through surrogate robots who are better - looking versions of themselves.

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The film is based on a bestselling 2011 novel by Ernest Cline, and is set in a near future where life has become predictably grim.

Set in a near future that feels remarkably authentic (well, except for the high - waisted pants that dominate the fashion), «Her» is a subtle but effective commentary on the role that technology plays in our increasingly anti-social lives; one where we're more connected to our gadgets than the people around us.

«God Particle,» directed by Nigerian - American filmmaker Julius Onah with a screenplay by Oren Uziel and Doug Jung, is set in the near future and tells the story of a team of astronauts on a space station who make a terrifying discovery involving a new energy source — the «God Particle» — and their desperate fight for survival.

The show, «set in the near future and centers on a young man trapped in Manhattan, which has been turned into a demilitarized zone (DMZ)», has landed at SyFy.

WHAT: Set in the near future, when Earth's resources have all but been depleted, former astronaut Cooper (Matthew McConaughey) joins a group of explorers — Dr. Amelia Brand (Anne Hathaway), Doyle (Wes Bentley) and Romilly (David Gyasi)-- on a secret NASA expedition through a newly discovered wormhole in the hopes of finding an inhabitable planet for mankind.

Set in a near future, the film follows a family as it scrambles for supplies in an abandoned town.

Set in a near future where human contact sports have been outlawed - evidently brain cells are a protected human element in our future - the world turns to robot boxing, giant hulks of metal and circuitry battling it out while human managers control them.

I'm generally not a science fiction fanatic, but this is sci - fi I really like, set in the near future in a society that looks like the world we know but full of these little details that catch you off - guard.

Gamer (R for nudity, sexuality, profanity and pervasive graphic violence) Sci - fi thriller, set in the near future, revolving around the attempt of a human gladiator (Gerard Butler) to free himself from the clutches of a deadly mind - control game invented by a voyeuristic, reclusive billionaire (Michael C. Hall) which pits people against each other.

Set in the near future, when the fear of terrorism has escalated into absolute, media - stoked hysteria (i.e., after the next successful Stateside terror attack), Eyeborgs posits a world where, in order to deal with the paranoia, robotic cameras are everywhere — in people's homes, on the streets, in the workplace — in order to monitor things, and keep everyone safe.

It's set in the near future, and features one of the most realistic depictions of barely - futuristic technology I've seen in a while.

Horror - action drama set in the near future about vampire hunter Vanessa Helsing (Kelly Overton), who has the unique genetic ability to turn vampires back into humans.

Set in the near future, this action shooter tank battle game lets players experience the most intense battle action they've ever seen!

Jed Mercurio does a future Frankenstein, set in the near future — after a super-volcano covers the world with ash, presumably to allow for nighttime shooting and a small number of outdoor shots.

Set in the near future where everybody is a dick and plays Society, a sim game gone wrong, the creator, Ken Castle (oddly enough played Michael C. Hall of Dexter fame) creates a new game in which deathrow prisoners are controlled via a computer to kill each other.

Set in a near future where corporations wield unlimited power, «Incorporated» stars Sean Teale, Eddie Ramos, Dennis Haysbert and Julia Ormond.

Set in the near future, mankind has been reduced to small herds of people living off the land.

Penned by Pearce and set in the near future, Hotel Artemis follows a nurse (Foster) who runs an underground hospital for Los Angeles» most sinister criminals, and finds that one of her patients is actually there to assassinate another.

Showing out of competition, Masked and Anonymous (aka the Dylan movie), directed by Larry Charles and pseudonymously written by Charles and Bob Dylan, is set in the near future when the U.S. resembles a crumbling Banana Republic — a concept given a certain credibility by the current administration's loot «n» pollute policies.

Set in the near future, the film stars Frank Langella as an aging jewel thief whose memory is fading.

RoboCop is set in near future Detroit, where the city streets are just about completely dominated by the criminal element, while the police are neither respected nor welcome; they are virtually walking targets out there.

Since they have already put out handsome releases for Metropolitan and Last Days of Disco, I smell a definitive box set in the near future.