Category Archives: Sci-Fi
10,000 Days
Release 2014
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Director: Eric Small
Stars: John Schneider, Riley Smith, Kim Myers, Jill Remez, Peter Wingfield
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3530690/
10,000 Days ago, Comet 23 struck Earth with the magnitude of all the nuclear weapons in the world sending the planet into a deep freeze. Now, 27 years in the future, those who survived are locked in an epic battle of life or death.
Extraterrestrial
Release 2014
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Director: Colin Minihan
Writers: Colin Minihan, Stuart Ortiz, The Vicious Brothers
Stars: Brittany Allen, Freddie Stroma, Melanie Papalia, Jesse Moss, Anja Savcic
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2960930/
A group of friends on a weekend trip to a cabin in the woods find themselves terrorized by alien visitors.
Earth to Echo
Release 2014
Genre Adventure, Family, Sci-Fi
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Director: Dave Green
Writers: Henry Gayden, Andrew Panay
Stars: Teo Halm, Astro, Reese Hartwig, Ella Wahlestedt, Jason Gray-Stanford
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2183034/
After receiving a bizarre series of encrypted messages, a group of kids embark on an adventure with an alien who needs their help.
Defiance
Release 2008
Genre Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller, War
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Director: Edward Zwick
Writers: Clayton Frohman, Edward Zwick, Nechama Tec
Stars: Daniel Craig, Liev Schreiber, Jamie Bell, Alexa Davalos, Allan Corduner
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1034303/
Jewish brothers in Nazi-occupied Eastern Europe escape into the Belarussian forests, where they join Russian resistance fighters and endeavor to build a village in order to protect themselves and about 1,000 Jewish non-combatants.
Transformers: Age of Extinction
Release 2014
Genre Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
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Director: Michael Bay
Writers: Ehren Kruger
Stars: Nicola Peltz, Mark Wahlberg, John Goodman, T.J. Miller, Stanley Tucci
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2109248/
An automobile mechanic and his daughter make a discovery that brings down the Autobots and Decepticons - and a paranoid government official - on them.
The Giver
Release 2014
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Director: Phillip Noyce
Writers: Michael Mitnick, Robert B. Weide, Lois Lowry
Stars: Jeff Bridges, Meryl Streep, Brenton Thwaites, Alexander Skarsgård, Katie Holmes
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0435651/
In a seemingly perfect community, without war, pain, suffering, differences or choice, a young boy is chosen to learn from an elderly man about the true pain and pleasure of the "real" world.
Dawn of the Dead
Release 2004
Genre Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
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Director: Zack Snyder
Writers: George A. Romero, James Gunn
Stars: Sarah Polley, Ving Rhames, Jake Weber, Mekhi Phifer, Ty Burrell
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0363547/
A nurse, a policeman, a young married couple, a salesman, and other survivors of a worldwide plague that is producing aggressive, flesh-eating zombies, take refuge in a mega Midwestern shopping mall.
X-Men: Days of Future Past
Release 2014
Genre Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
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Director: Bryan Singer
Writers: Simon Kinberg, Jane Goldman, Matthew Vaughn
Stars: Hugh Jackman, James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender, Jennifer Lawrence, Halle Berry
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1877832/
The X-Men send Wolverine to the past in a desperate effort to change history and prevent an event that results in doom for both humans and mutants.
Unbreakable
Release 2000
Genre Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
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Director: M. Night Shyamalan
Stars: Bruce Willis, Samuel L. Jackson, Robin Wright, Spencer Treat Clark, Charlayne Woodard
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0217869/
A man learns something extraordinary about himself after a devastating accident.
Edge of Tomorrow
Release 2014
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Director: Doug Liman
Writers: Christopher McQuarrie, Jez Butterworth, John-Henry Butterworth, Hiroshi Sakurazaka
Stars: Tom Cruise, Emily Blunt, Brendan Gleeson, Bill Paxton, Jonas Armstrong
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1631867/
An officer finds himself caught in a time loop in a war with an alien race. His skills increase as he faces the same brutal combat scenarios, and his union with a Special Forces warrior gets him closer and closer to defeating the enemy.