Category Archives: Sci-Fi
Beyond Skyline
Release 2017
Genre Action, Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
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Director: Liam O'Donnell
Stars: Frank Grillo, Bojana Novakovic, Iko Uwais, Callan Mulvey, Valentine Payen
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1724970/
A tough-as-nails detective embarks on a relentless pursuit to free his son from a nightmarish alien warship.
Flatliners
Release 2017
Genre Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
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Director: Niels Arden Oplev
Writers: Peter Filardi, Ben Ripley
Stars: Ellen Page, Diego Luna, Nina Dobrev, James Norton, Kiersey Clemons
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2039338/
Five medical students, obsessed by what lies beyond the confines of life, embark on a daring experiment: by stopping their hearts for short periods, each triggers a near-death experience - giving them a firsthand account of the afterlife.
Alien Invasion: S.U.M.1
Release 2017
Genre Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
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Director: Christian Pasquariello
Writers: Christian Pasquariello, Gabrielle Pfeiffer
Stars: Iwan Rheon, André Hennicke, Rainer Werner, Zoe Grisedale, Niels-Bruno Schmidt
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt4279116/
An aggressive race of aliens took over Planet Earth and humanity's at its end, living in giant bunkers below ground. Young Military rookie S.U.M.1 (Iwan Rheon) is sent to the surface to save a group of unprotected survivors.
Geostorm
Release 2017
Genre Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
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Director: Dean Devlin
Writers: Dean Devlin, Paul Guyot
Stars: Gerard Butler, Jim Sturgess, Abbie Cornish, Alexandra Maria Lara, Daniel Wu
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1981128/
When the network of satellites designed to control the global climate starts to attack Earth, it's a race against the clock to uncover the real threat before a worldwide Geostorm wipes out everything and everyone.
The Humanity Bureau
Release 2017
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Director: Rob W. King
Writers: Dave Schultz
Stars: Nicolas Cage, Hugh Dillon, Sarah Lind, Vicellous Shannon, Jakob Davies
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt6143568/
A dystopian thriller set in the year 2030 that sees the world in a permanent state of economic recession and facing serious environmental problems as a result of global warming.
Radius
Release 2017
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Director: Caroline Labrèche, Steeve Léonard
Stars: Diego Klattenhoff, Charlotte Sullivan, Brett Donahue, Andrea del Campo, Robert Borges
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt6097798/
Liam wakes from a car crash with no memory of who he is. As he makes his way into town to look for help, he finds only dead bodies, all with strange pale eyes. Liam's first assessment is that a virus is present in the air, but he soon discovers the horrible truth: anyone who comes within a 50-foot radius of him dies instantly.
Singularity
Release 2017
Genre Sci-Fi
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Director: Robert Kouba
Writers: Robert Kouba, Sebastian Cepeda
Stars: Carmen Argenziano, John Cusack, Eileen Grubba, Julian Schaffner, Jeannine Wacker
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt7312940/
In 2020, Elias van Dorne (John Cusack), CEO of VA Industries, the world's largest robotics company, introduces his most powerful invention--Kronos, a super computer designed to end all wars. When Kronos goes online, it quickly determines that mankind, itself, is the biggest threat to world peace and launches a worldwide robot attack to rid the world of the "infection" of man. Ninety-seven years later, a small band of humans remain alive but on the run from the robot army. A teenage boy, Andrew (Julian Schaffner) and a teenage girl, Calia (Jeannine Wacker), form an unlikely alliance to reach a new world, where it is rumored mankind exists without fear of robot persecution. But does this world actually exist? And will they live long enough to find out?
Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets(HC)
Release 2017
Genre Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
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Director: Luc Besson
Writers: Pierre Christin, Jean-Claude Mézières, Luc Besson
Stars: Dane DeHaan, Cara Delevingne, Clive Owen, Rihanna, Ethan Hawke
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2239822/
A dark force threatens Alpha, a vast metropolis and home to species from a thousand planets. Special operatives Valerian and Laureline must race to identify the marauding menace and safeguard not just Alpha, but the future of the universe.
Shortwave
Release 2016
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Director: Ryan Gregory Phillips
Writers: Thomas H. McDaniel, Ryan Gregory Phillips, Frank Ponce
Stars: Cristobal Tapia Montt, Sara Malakul Lane, Jay Ellis, Nina Senicar, Kyle Davis
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt5152640/
A modern and unrelentingly tense psychological thriller based on a theory of the origins of shortwave radio frequencies, Shortwave is an unnerving reminder that some stones are best left unturned.
The Dark Tower
Release 2017
Genre Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi
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Director: Nikolaj Arcel
Writers: Akiva Goldsman, Jeff Pinkner, Anders Thomas Jensen, Nikolaj Arcel, Stephen King
Stars: Matthew McConaughey, Idris Elba, Tom Taylor, Dennis Haysbert, Ben Gavin
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1648190/
The last Gunslinger, Roland Deschain, has been locked in an eternal battle with Walter O'Dim, also known as the Man in Black, determined to prevent him from toppling the Dark Tower, which holds the universe together. With the fate of the worlds at stake, good and evil will collide in the ultimate battle as only Roland can defend the Tower from the Man in Black.