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The best science fiction movies from every decade.
'Mute' Review
Plot summary: Left a mute after a traumatic childhood injury, Leo (Alexander Skarsgard) bartends at a strip club in Berlin. Reunited with his true love, Naadirah, the couple’s passionate reunion is cut short when Naadirah mysteriously vanishes. After a mysterious message sets him on the hunt to track down his girlfriend, Leo uncovers the hidden life of the woman he once thought he knew.
By Christopher Rigby8 years ago in Futurism
Review: 'The Cloverfield Paradox'
I think enough of you are aware of my love for the Cloverfield franchise. The excitement and intrigue going around at the start of 2008 for this film was positively unprecedented. They created the perfect way of presenting a trailer. It explained very little and got plenty of bums on seats.
By David Grice8 years ago in Futurism
Movie Review: 'Annihilation'
Annihilation blew my mind. From the opening scene to the bizarre ambiguous ending, Annihilation is a head-trip that never quits. Directed by Alex Garland, the mastermind behind Ex Machina, Annihilation combines aliens, existential crisis, and Natalie Portman into an awesome sci-fi acid trip with hints of Ridley Scott, Stanley Kubrick, and John Carpenter in its filmic DNA.
By Sean Patrick8 years ago in Futurism
Review of 'I Thought You Would Last Forever'
I Thought You Would Last Forever - the English title of Ya dumal, ty budesh vsegda, a 2013 Russian feature-length time-travel romance, now streaming free with English subtitles on Amazon Prime -- is no Anna Karenina. But it tells a pretty good time travel story of broken hearts and quietly heroic attempts to repair them, and is imbued with the fatalistic but deeply human Russian spirit.
By Paul Levinson8 years ago in Futurism
Review of 'The Cloverfield Paradox'
Well, there really wasn't any paradox in it (things going very wrong does not equate to paradox), and the story was at least much horror as science fiction, but The Cloverfield Paradox on Netflix was pretty good science fiction of the alternate-reality variety anyway.
By Paul Levinson8 years ago in Futurism
The Next 'Planet of the Apes' Movie
On July 14th, 2017, War for the Planet of the Apes was released in theaters earning a staggering 490 million dollars at the box office. This is the third installment of the new Apes series. The movie, like its predecessors, was a commercial and financial success.
By Joseph Pecher8 years ago in Futurism
Review of 'ARQ'
Hey, I recently watched ARQ—more than a year after it was first released on Netflix—a time-loop Groundhog Day meets I don't know, Terminator movie, about a couple in a facility near the end of the world in some desperate battle, obliged to relive a few hours over and over again, because every time they're killed by masked then unmasked intruders, they wake up in the same bed, together, with memories (usually) of what happened to them in the earlier loops. This is because the guy is the programmer of a machine that can (presumably) run forever because it keeps regenerating its energy, by thrusting itself and those in its vicinity a little bit back into the past.
By Paul Levinson8 years ago in Futurism
Review of 'The Man from the Future'
This one's from Brazil, in Portuguese, from 2011, by way of Netflix in 2016, and I recently watched it as part of my time-travel movie and TV extravaganza. The Man from the Future - O Homem do Futuro in Portuguese - stars Wagner Moura as an accidental time-traveling scientist who finds himself some twenty years in his past — in 1991 — and in a position to change the course of his personal history, and get the girl (played by Alinne Moraes) he's loved all of these years, but lost for some reason at that crucial moment in 1991.
By Paul Levinson8 years ago in Futurism
'The Cloverfield Paradox' Review
In recent years, music industry PR gurus started a trend where they use ninja-like stealth to release surprise albums from major recording artists like Beyoncé and Rihanna. Their line of reasoning: As it gets harder to market albums, the buzz that comes with a surprise debut will help the record stand out. And now, with The Cloverfield Paradox, Netflix is getting in on the act. In an unexpected move, Netflix announced the film would be available to stream right after the Super Bowl. So is their decision savvy marketing meant to capitalize on the year's biggest television event or a crafty move intended to overhype a trash film before critics can tear it apart?
By Victor Stiff8 years ago in Futurism
Review of 'An Angel for May'
An Angel for May just showed up on Amazon Prime. I just saw it, and think of it as a YA (young adult) Outlander. Significantly—or not—the Melvin Burgess novel on which the 2002 movie is based was published in 1992, or just a year after Diana Gabaldon published her first Outlander novel. I have no idea if Burgess read and was inspired by Outlander, but the two stories have a lot common. Time travel in An Angel for May happens when the hero, young Tom, walks through a broken stone facade of an old building. Both stories have a foot in the Second World War—the point of departure for Claire in Outlander, the terminus for Tom. Both are UK-based. And both are, in significant part, about the time traveler trying to change history.
By Paul Levinson8 years ago in Futurism
'The Discovery'
The Discovery (2017, Netflix) is a strange, edgy, powerfully soft-spoken movie about a scientific attempt to find, map, and understand the afterlife. As such, it bears some resemblance to Kiefer Sutherland's 1990 Flatliners (coincidentally remade in 2017, but I haven't yet seen it). The Discovery sports Robert Redford in a quite central role, with Jason Segel, Rooney Mara (House of Cards), Jesse Plemons (Friday Night Lights), and Riley Keough (first season of The Girlfriend Experience) in leading and strong supporting roles.
By Paul Levinson8 years ago in Futurism
