Category Archives: Sci-Fi
The Humanity Bureau
Release 2017
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Director: Rob W. King
Writers: Dave Schultz
Stars: Nicolas Cage, Hugh Dillon, Sarah Lind, Vicellous Shannon, Jakob Davies
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt6143568/
A dystopian thriller set in the year 2030 that sees the world in a permanent state of economic recession and facing serious environmental problems as a result of global warming.
Radius
Release 2017
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Director: Caroline Labrèche, Steeve Léonard
Stars: Diego Klattenhoff, Charlotte Sullivan, Brett Donahue, Andrea del Campo, Robert Borges
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt6097798/
Liam wakes from a car crash with no memory of who he is. As he makes his way into town to look for help, he finds only dead bodies, all with strange pale eyes. Liam's first assessment is that a virus is present in the air, but he soon discovers the horrible truth: anyone who comes within a 50-foot radius of him dies instantly.
Singularity
Release 2017
Genre Sci-Fi
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Director: Robert Kouba
Writers: Robert Kouba, Sebastian Cepeda
Stars: Carmen Argenziano, John Cusack, Eileen Grubba, Julian Schaffner, Jeannine Wacker
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt7312940/
In 2020, Elias van Dorne (John Cusack), CEO of VA Industries, the world's largest robotics company, introduces his most powerful invention--Kronos, a super computer designed to end all wars. When Kronos goes online, it quickly determines that mankind, itself, is the biggest threat to world peace and launches a worldwide robot attack to rid the world of the "infection" of man. Ninety-seven years later, a small band of humans remain alive but on the run from the robot army. A teenage boy, Andrew (Julian Schaffner) and a teenage girl, Calia (Jeannine Wacker), form an unlikely alliance to reach a new world, where it is rumored mankind exists without fear of robot persecution. But does this world actually exist? And will they live long enough to find out?
Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets(HC)
Release 2017
Genre Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
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Director: Luc Besson
Writers: Pierre Christin, Jean-Claude Mézières, Luc Besson
Stars: Dane DeHaan, Cara Delevingne, Clive Owen, Rihanna, Ethan Hawke
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2239822/
A dark force threatens Alpha, a vast metropolis and home to species from a thousand planets. Special operatives Valerian and Laureline must race to identify the marauding menace and safeguard not just Alpha, but the future of the universe.
Shortwave
Release 2016
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Director: Ryan Gregory Phillips
Writers: Thomas H. McDaniel, Ryan Gregory Phillips, Frank Ponce
Stars: Cristobal Tapia Montt, Sara Malakul Lane, Jay Ellis, Nina Senicar, Kyle Davis
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt5152640/
A modern and unrelentingly tense psychological thriller based on a theory of the origins of shortwave radio frequencies, Shortwave is an unnerving reminder that some stones are best left unturned.
The Dark Tower
Release 2017
Genre Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi
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Director: Nikolaj Arcel
Writers: Akiva Goldsman, Jeff Pinkner, Anders Thomas Jensen, Nikolaj Arcel, Stephen King
Stars: Matthew McConaughey, Idris Elba, Tom Taylor, Dennis Haysbert, Ben Gavin
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1648190/
The last Gunslinger, Roland Deschain, has been locked in an eternal battle with Walter O'Dim, also known as the Man in Black, determined to prevent him from toppling the Dark Tower, which holds the universe together. With the fate of the worlds at stake, good and evil will collide in the ultimate battle as only Roland can defend the Tower from the Man in Black.
The Emoji Movie
Release 2017
Genre Adventure, Animation, Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi
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Director: Tony Leondis
Writers: Tony Leondis, Eric Siegel, Mike White, John Hoffman
Stars: T.J. Miller, James Corden, Anna Faris, Maya Rudolph, Steven Wright
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt4877122/
Gene, a multi-expressional emoji, sets out on a journey to become a normal emoji.
War for the Planet of the Apes
Release 2017
Genre Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
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Director: Matt Reeves
Writers: Mark Bomback, Matt Reeves, Rick Jaffa, Amanda Silver, Pierre Boulle
Stars: Andy Serkis, Woody Harrelson, Steve Zahn, Karin Konoval, Amiah Miller
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3450958/
After the apes suffer unimaginable losses, Caesar wrestles with his darker instincts and begins his own mythic quest to avenge his kind.
Anti Matter
Release 2016
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Director: Keir Burrows
Stars: Yaiza Figueroa, Philippa Carson, Tom Barber-Duffy, Noah Maxwell Clarke, James Farrar
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt4881364/
Anti Matter (AKA Worm) is a sci-fi noir take on the Alice in Wonderland tale. Ana, an Oxford PhD student, finds herself unable to build new memories following an experiment to generate and travel through a wormhole. The story follows her increasingly desperate efforts to understand what happened, and to find out who - or what - is behind the rising horror in her life.
Transformers: The Last Knight
Release 2017
Genre Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
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Director: Michael Bay
Writers: Art Marcum, Matt Holloway, Ken Nolan, Akiva Goldsman
Stars: Mark Wahlberg, Anthony Hopkins, Josh Duhamel, Laura Haddock, Santiago Cabrera
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3371366/
Autobots and Decepticons are at war, with humans on the sidelines. Optimus Prime is gone. The key to saving our future lies buried in the secrets of the past, in the hidden history of Transformers on Earth.