Category Archives: Sci-Fi
Titane
Release 2021
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Director: Julia Ducournau
Writers: Julia Ducournau, Jacques Akchoti, Simonetta Greggio
Stars: Vincent Lindon, Agathe Rousselle, Garance Marillier, Laïs Salameh, Mara Cisse
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10944760/
Following a series of unexplained crimes, a father is reunited with the son who has been missing for 10 years. Titane: A metal highly resistant to heat and corrosion, with high tensile strength alloys.
Warning
Release 2021
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Director: Agata Alexander
Writers: Agata Alexander, Jason Kaye, Rob Michaelson
Stars: Annabelle Wallis, Kylie Bunbury, Alice Eve, Thomas Jane, Alex Pettyfer
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8956324/
The meaning of life explored through multiple interconnected lives set in the near future.
Needle in a Timestack
Release 2021
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Director: John Ridley
Writers: John Ridley, Robert Silverberg
Stars: Leslie Odom Jr., Freida Pinto, Orlando Bloom, Laysla De Oliveira, Alessandro Juliani
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7099280/
Nick and Janine live in marital bliss until Janine's ex-husband warps time to try to tear them apart. As Nick's memories disappear, he must decide what he's willing to sacrifice in order to hold onto - or let go of - everything he loves.
Zone 414
Release 2021
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Director: Andrew Baird
Writers: Bryan Edward Hill
Stars: Travis Fimmel, Guy Pearce, Matilda Anna Ingrid Lutz, Ned Dennehy, Jóhannes Haukur Jóhannesson
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8545482/
Set in the near future, private detective David Carmichael is hired by Marlon Veidt, an eccentric businessman, to track down his missing daughter. David teams up with Jane, a highly advanced A.I. to solve the mystery.
Reminiscence
Release 2021
Genre Mystery, Romance, Sci-Fi
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Director: Lisa Joy
Writer: Lisa Joy
Stars: Hugh Jackman, Rebecca Ferguson, Thandiwe Newton, Cliff Curtis, Daniel Wu
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3272066/
Nick Bannister, a private investigator of the mind, navigates the alluring world of the past when his life is changed by new client Mae. A simple case becomes an obsession after she disappears and he fights to learn the truth about her.
Risen
Release 2021
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Director: Eddie Arya
Stars: Terri Purchase, Natalie Rose, Buffy Anne Littaua, Kenneth Trujillo, Nicole Sharrock
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4940336/
Disaster unfolds when a meteor strikes a small town, turning the environment uninhabitable and killing everything in the surrounding area.
Batman: The Long Halloween, Part Two
Release 2021
Genre Action, Animation, Crime, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
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Director: Chris Palmer
Writers: Jeph Loeb, Tim Sheridan
Stars: Jensen Ackles, Troy Baker, Laila Berzins, Billy Burke, Zach Callison
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt14402926/
The killer known as Holiday continues to stalk the Falcone crime family while a new class of costumed criminal rises in Gotham City. Batman suspects that a former ally might be the serial killer.
Ascendant
Release 2021
Genre Fantasy, Mystery, Sci-Fi
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Director: Antaine Furlong
Writers: Antaine Furlong, Kieron Holland
Stars: Charlotte Best, Jonny Pasvolsky, Susan Prior, Karelina Clarke, Andrew Jack
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10370042/
A young environmentalist wakes, trapped, kidnapped in the elevator of a super high-rise building at the mercy of her tormentors
Settlers
Release 2021
Genre Sci-Fi
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Director: Wyatt Rockefeller
Writer: Wyatt Rockefeller
Stars: Sofia Boutella, Jonny Lee Miller, Nell Tiger Free, Brooklynn Prince, Ismael Cruz Cordova
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9373688/
Mankind's earliest settlers on the Martian frontier do what they must to survive the cosmic elements and each other.
Black Widow
Release 2021
Genre Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
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Director: Cate Shortland
Writers: Eric Pearson, Jac Schaeffer, Ned Benson
Stars: Scarlett Johansson, Florence Pugh, Rachel Weisz, David Harbour, Ray Winstone
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3480822/
A film about Natasha Romanoff in her quests between the films Civil War and Infinity War.