Category Archives: Sci-Fi
Scorched Earth
Release 2018
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Director: Peter Howitt
Writers: Kevin Leeson, Bobby Mort
Stars: Gina Carano, John Hannah, Stephanie Bennett, Patrick Gilmore
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2392748/
A bounty hunter named Atticus Gage tracks down criminals in a post-apocalyptic Earth.
Mute
Release 2018
Genre Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
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Director: Duncan Jones
Writers: Michael Robert Johnson
Stars: Alexander Skarsgård, Paul Rudd, Justin Theroux, Seyneb Saleh
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1464763/
A mute bartender goes up against his city's gangsters in an effort to find out what happened to his missing partner.
Bleeding Steel(HC)
Release 2017
Genre Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
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Director: Leo Zhang
Writers: Siwei Cui, Erica Xia-Hou, Leo Zhang
Stars: Jackie Chan, Callan Mulvey, Tess Haubrich, Damien Garvey
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt5813366/
Chan stars as a hardened special forces agent who fights to protect a young woman from a sinister criminal gang. At the same time he with feels a special connection to the young woman, like they met in a different life.
Cold Skin
Release 2017
Genre Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi
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Director: Xavier Gens
Writers: Jesús Olmo
Stars: Ray Stevenson, David Oakes, Aura Garrido, Winslow Iwaki
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1034385/
A young man who arrives to a remote island finds himself trapped in a battle for his own life.
The Cloverfield Paradox
Release 2018
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Director: Julius Onah
Writers: Oren Uziel
Stars: Elizabeth Debicki, Daniel Brühl, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Chris O'Dowd
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2548396/
After a scientific experiment aboard the space station involving a particle accelerator has unexpected results, the astronauts find themselves isolated. Following their horrible discovery, the space station crew must fight for survival.
Downsizing
Release 2017
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Director: Alexander Payne
Writers: Alexander Payne, Jim Taylor
Stars: Matt Damon, Christoph Waltz, Hong Chau, Kristen Wiig
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1389072/
A social satire in which a guy realizes he would have a better life if he were to shrink himself.
The Man from Earth: Holocene
Release 2017
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Director: Richard Schenkman
Writers: Emerson Bixby
Stars: Michael Dorn, Brittany Curran, Vanessa Williams, William Katt
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt5770864/
14,000 year-old "Man from Earth" John Oldman is now comfortably hiding in plain sight as a college professor in Northern California. But his existence comes crashing down when four students discover his deepest secret, putting his life in grave danger and potentially shaking mankind to its very soul.
The Lucky Man
Release 2018
Genre Action, Crime, Drama, Sci-Fi
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Director: Norman Gregory McGuire
Stars: Jesse James, Mariana Paola Vicente, Burton Gilliam, Brad Hawkins
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3458760/
A young charismatic preacher and his hot Latina girlfriend travel Route 66 scamming the small churches along the way only to find that the bogus healing powers he portrays become real. The healing powers serve as a blessing and a curse.
The Beyond
Release 2017
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Director: Hasraf Dulull
Stars: David Bailie, Jane Perry, Brian Deacon, Kosha Engler
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt5723416/
Set in 2019, The Beyond chronicles the groundbreaking mission which sent astronauts - modified with advanced robotics, through a newly discovered wormhole known as the Void. When the mission returns unexpectedly, the space agency races to discover what the astronauts encountered on their first of its kind interstellar space journey.
Blade Runner 2049
Release 2017
Genre Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
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Director: Denis Villeneuve
Writers: Hampton Fancher
Stars: Ryan Gosling, Dave Bautista, Robin Wright, Mark Arnold
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1856101/
A young blade runner's discovery of a long-buried secret leads him to track down former blade runner Rick Deckard, who's been missing for thirty years.