Category Archives: Sci-Fi
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.
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.