Category Archives: Sci-Fi
Dredd
Release 2012
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Director: Pete Travis
Writers: John Wagner, Carlos Ezquerra, Alex Garland
Stars: Karl Urban, Rachel Wood, Andile Mngadi, Porteus Xandau, Jason Cope
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1343727/
In a violent, futuristic city where the police have the authority to act as judge, jury and executioner, a cop teams with a trainee to take down a gang that deals the reality-altering drug, SLO-MO.
Looper
Release 2012
Genre Action, Crime, Sci-Fi, Thriller
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Director: Rian Johnson
Stars: Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Bruce Willis, Emily Blunt, Paul Dano, Noah Segan
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1276104/
In 2074, when the mob wants to get rid of someone, the target is sent into the past, where a hired gun awaits - someone like Joe - who one day learns the mob wants to 'close the loop' by sending back Joe's future self for assassination.
The Hunger Games
Release 2012
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Director: Gary Ross
Writers: Gary Ross, Suzanne Collins, Billy Ray
Stars: Stanley Tucci, Wes Bentley, Jennifer Lawrence, Willow Shields, Liam Hemsworth
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1392170/
Katniss Everdeen voluntarily takes her younger sister's place in the Hunger Games, a televised fight to the death in which two teenagers from each of the twelve Districts of Panem are chosen at random to compete.
The Matrix Revolutions
Release 2003
Genre Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
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Director: Andy Wachowski, Lana Wachowski
Stars: Mary Alice, Tanveer K. Atwal, Helmut Bakaitis, Kate Beahan, Francine Bell
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0242653/
The human city of Zion defends itself against the massive invasion of the machines as Neo fights to end the war at another front while also opposing the rogue Agent Smith.
Transformers: Dark of the Moon
Release 2011
Genre Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
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Director: Michael Bay
Writers: Ehren Kruger
Stars: Shia LaBeouf, Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, Josh Duhamel, John Turturro, Tyrese Gibson
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1399103/
The Autobots learn of a Cybertronian spacecraft hidden on the moon, and race against the Decepticons to reach it and to learn its secrets.
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
Release 2009
Genre Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
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Director: Michael Bay
Writers: Ehren Kruger, Roberto Orci, Alex Kurtzman
Stars: Shia LaBeouf, Megan Fox, Josh Duhamel, Tyrese Gibson, John Turturro
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1055369/
Sam Witwicky leaves the Autobots behind for a normal life. But when his mind is filled with cryptic symbols, the Decepticons target him and he is dragged back into the Transformers' war.
The Avengers
Release 2012
Genre Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
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Director: Joss Whedon
Writers: Joss Whedon, Zak Penn
Stars: Robert Downey Jr., Chris Evans, Mark Ruffalo, Chris Hemsworth, Scarlett Johansson
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0848228/
Nick Fury of S.H.I.E.L.D. assembles a team of superheroes to save the planet from Loki and his army.
The World's End
Release 2013
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Director: Edgar Wright
Writers: Simon Pegg, Edgar Wright
Stars: Thomas Law, Zachary Bailess, Jasper Levine, James Tarpey, Luke Bromley
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1213663/
Five friends who reunite in an attempt to top their epic pub crawl from 20 years earlier unwittingly become humankind's only hope for survival.
Riddick
Release 2013
Genre Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
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Director: David Twohy
Writers: David Twohy, Jim Wheat, Ken Wheat
Stars: Vin Diesel, Jordi Mollà, Matt Nable, Katee Sackhoff, Dave Bautista
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1411250/
Left for dead on a sun-scorched planet, Riddick finds himself up against an alien race of predators. Activating an emergency beacon alerts two ships: one carrying a new breed of mercenary, the other captained by a man from Riddick's past.
Inception
Release 2010
Genre Action, Adventure, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
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Director: Christopher Nolan
Stars: Leonardo DiCaprio, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Ellen Page, Tom Hardy, Ken Watanabe
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1375666/
A skilled extractor is offered a chance to regain his old life as payment for a task considered to be impossible.