Mar
16
Creating a World: Aeon Flux
March 16, 2010 | Leave a Comment
Creating a World: Aeon Flux (2006)
IMDB rating: 5.30
Plot: The sci-fi actioner is set 400 years in the future, when disease has wiped out the majority of the earth’s population except for one walled, protected city-state, Bregna, ruled by a congress of scientists. The story centers on Aeon Flux(Theron), the top operative in the underground ‘Monican’ [...]
Mar
10
Forgotten, The
March 10, 2010 | Leave a Comment
Forgotten, The (2004)
IMDB rating: 5.80
Plot: A grieving mother, Telly Paretta, is struggling to cope with the loss of her 9-year-old son. She is stunned when her psychiatrist and her husband tell her that she has created eight years of memories of a son she never had. But when she meets the father of one of [...]
Feb
27
Day After Tomorrow, The
February 27, 2010 | Leave a Comment
Day After Tomorrow, The (2004)
IMDB rating: 6.20
Plot: This movie takes a big-budget, special-effects-filled look at what the world would look like if the greenhouse effect and global warming continued at such levels that they resulted in worldwide catastrophe and disaster, including multiple hurricanes, tornadoes, tidal waves, floods and the beginning of the next Ice Age. [...]
Feb
23
The Last Sentinel
February 23, 2010 | Leave a Comment
The Last Sentinel (2007)
IMDB rating: 3.50
Plot: No emotion. No fear. No pain. They were the perfect soldiers to protect civilization-until the drone police became the perfect enemy. With little hope left for mankind, Tallis, an electronically enhanced soldier, rescues a rebel beauty from a failed resistance mission. A force to be reckoned with, she will [...]
Feb
20
Enemy Mine
February 20, 2010 | Leave a Comment
Enemy Mine (1985)
IMDB rating: 6.50
Plot: On a far distant planet, at the height of the war between the Dracon and Terran Empires, two military pilots crash in the heat of battle. One is Terran, one is Drac. Each is a repulsive alien to the other. Each is a professional warrior, filled with hatred for his [...]
Feb
13
Code 46
February 13, 2010 | Leave a Comment
Code 46 (2003)
IMDB rating: 6.30
Plot: Code 46 is a love story set in a Brave New World-type near-future where cities are heavily controlled and only accessible through checkpoints. People cannot travel unless they have “papelles,” a special travel permit issued by the totalitarianistic government, the “Sphinx”. Outside these cities, the desert has taken over and [...]
Feb
6
Until the End of the World
February 6, 2010 | Leave a Comment
Until the End of the World (1991)
IMDB rating: 6.60
Plot: Sometimes-muddled road movie-turns-sci fi. Hurt plays a man who is traveling the world taking pictures with a special camera that will enable the blind to see (specifically, his blind mother). He meets up with Dommartin on the way, and they predictably hit it off. Set in [...]
Jan
10
Fantastic Planet, The
January 10, 2010 | Leave a Comment
Fantastic Planet, The (1973)
IMDB rating: 7.60
Plot: La Planete sauvage AKA Fantastic Planet is a surrealist story based on the Soviet occupation of Czechoslovakia. Set in a far distant world human beings or “Oms”have been domesticated by the gigantic Draags. Wild Oms however are a problem and are exterminated by the dozen. One domesticated om Terr [...]
Jan
9
RoboCop 3
January 9, 2010 | Leave a Comment
RoboCop 3 (1993)
IMDB rating: 3.10
Plot: Omni Consumer Products (OCP) begins its plan for the creation of Delta City. As part of this program, a special Rehab squad leaded by Commander Paul McDaggett is deployed as they evacuate the city in a forced manner tearing down part of the city. In this chaos, a young girl [...]
Jan
1
Mission to Mars
January 1, 2010 | Leave a Comment
Mission to Mars (2000)
IMDB rating: 5.00
Plot: Commander Luke Graham is selected to lead the first manned mission to Mars. Upon setting foot on the red planet, the team discovers an ancient, domelike structure which appears to be a beacon. The dome destroys the team and leaves Luc injured. The recently widowed Jim McConnell leads the [...]
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