Category Archives: Sci-Fi
The Ascent
Release 2019
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Director: Tom Paton
Writer: Tom Paton
Stars: Rachel Warren, Simon Meacock, Bentley Kalu, Samantha Schnitzler, Toby Osmond
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8439934/
Special ops squad "Hell's Bastards" are sent to infiltrate a civil war to retrieve intel. The unit soon find themselves trapped on a never-ending stairwell forced to climb or die. To survive, they must revisit their past sins if they ever want to get off.
Possessor
Release 2020
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Director: Brandon Cronenberg
Writer: Brandon Cronenberg
Stars: Sean Bean, Andrea Riseborough, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Tuppence Middleton, Christopher Abbott
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5918982/
Possessor follows an agent who works for a secretive organization that uses brain-implant technology to inhabit other people's bodies - ultimately driving them to commit assassinations for high-paying clients.
Butt Boy
Release 2019
Genre Comedy, Sci-Fi, Thriller
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Director: Tyler Cornack
Writers: Tyler Cornack, Ryan Koch
Stars: Angela Jones, Kristina Clifford, Tyler Cornack, Gail Bloyd, Tyler Rice
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7879442/
Chip Gutchel, a bored married IT Engineer, has a reawakening after a routine prostate exam. What starts as a harmless rectal kink, soon grows into a dangerous addiction as he becomes responsible for a missing child. Chip eventually buries his desires in Alcoholics Anonymous and tries to move on with his life. Years later, he becomes the sponsor of Russell Fox, a newly sober detective. After Chip relapses, Russell is brought in to investigate another missing child at Chip's office. Russell begins to suspect that Chip's addiction may not be to alcohol, but something much more sinister. It's up to Russell now to prove that Chip is responsible for the child's disappearance. But who's going to believe his wild theory?
Sea Fever
Release 2019
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Director: Neasa Hardiman
Writer: Neasa Hardiman
Stars: Connie Nielsen, Hermione Corfield, Dougray Scott, Olwen Fouéré, Dag Malmberg
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2716382/
The crew of a West of Ireland trawler, marooned at sea, struggle for their lives against a growing parasite in their water supply.
The Platform
Release 2019
Genre Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
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Director: Galder Gaztelu-Urrutia
Writers: David Desola, David Desola, Pedro Rivero
Stars: Ivan Massagué, Zorion Eguileor, Antonia San Juan, Emilio Buale, Alexandra Masangkay
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8228288/
A vertical prison with one cell per level. Two people per cell. One only food platform and two minutes per day to feed from up to down. An endless nightmare trapped in The Pit.
The Invisible Man
Release 2020
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Director: Leigh Whannell
Writers: Leigh Whannell, Leigh Whannell, H.G. Wells
Stars: Elisabeth Moss, Oliver Jackson-Cohen, Harriet Dyer, Aldis Hodge, Storm Reid
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1051906/
When Cecilia's abusive ex takes his own life and leaves her his fortune, she suspects his death was a hoax. As a series of coincidences turn lethal, Cecilia works to prove that she is being hunted by someone nobody can see.
Contagion
Release 2011
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Director: Steven Soderbergh
Writers: Scott Z. Burns
Stars: Marion Cotillard, Matt Damon, Laurence Fishburne, Jude Law, Gwyneth Paltrow
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1598778/
The CDC races against time to develop a vaccine against an extremely lethal virus.
Superman: Red Son
Release 2020
Genre Action, Animation, Sci-Fi
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Director: Sam Liu
Writers: J.M. DeMatteis, Mark Millar, Dave Johnson
Stars: Jason Isaacs, Amy Acker, Diedrich Bader, Vanessa Marshall, Phil Morris
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10985510/
What if baby Kal-El's rocket landed, not in Kansas, but in the Soviet Union? That is the premise of this Elseworld's tale from DC Comics.
Color Out of Space
Release 2019
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Director: Richard Stanley
Writers: Scarlett Amaris, H.P. Lovecraft, Richard Stanley
Stars: Nicolas Cage, Joely Richardson, Q'orianka Kilcher
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5073642/
A town is struck by a meteorite and the fallout is catastrophic.
Terminator: Dark Fate
Release 2019
Genre Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
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Director: Tim Miller
Writers: James Cameron, Charles H. Eglee, Josh Friedman, David S. Goyer, Justin Rhodes, Billy Ray, Gale Anne Hurd
Stars: Linda Hamilton, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Mackenzie Davis
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6450804/
An augmented human and Sarah Connor must stop an advanced liquid Terminator, from hunting down a young girl, whose fate is critical to the human race.