Mar
17
Creating a World: Aeon Flux
March 17, 2010 | Leave a Comment
Creating a World: Aeon Flux (2006)
IMDB rating: 5.30
Plot: The sci-fi actioner is set 400 years in the future, when disease has wiped out the majority of the earth’s population except for one walled, protected city-state, Bregna, ruled by a congress of scientists. The story centers on Aeon Flux(Theron), the top operative in the underground ‘Monican’ [...]
Mar
16
Virus
March 16, 2010 | Leave a Comment
Virus (1999)
IMDB rating: 4.20
Plot: After losing their payload the ramshackle, sinking, ocean-going salvage tug “Sea Star” takes refuge in the eye of a typhoon in an attempt to make repairs. Whilst trying to find help the tug, captained by Robert Everton (‘Donald Sutherland’ (qv)), discovers a Russian science vessel adrift in the eye. The crew [...]
Mar
16
Virus
March 16, 2010 | Leave a Comment
Virus (1999)
IMDB rating: 4.20
Plot: After losing their payload the ramshackle, sinking, ocean-going salvage tug “Sea Star” takes refuge in the eye of a typhoon in an attempt to make repairs. Whilst trying to find help the tug, captained by Robert Everton (‘Donald Sutherland’ (qv)), discovers a Russian science vessel adrift in the eye. The crew [...]
Mar
12
Lawnmower Man, The
March 12, 2010 | Leave a Comment
Lawnmower Man, The (1992)
IMDB rating: 4.90
Plot: A trip into virtual reality. Angelo has developed a virtual reality system, which truly immerses the user into the world of computer make-believe. The lawnmower man, Jobe, who is retarded, is put ‘into’ the system to find out if his intelligence can be improved. It can, but not without [...]
Feb
21
20 Million Miles to Earth
February 21, 2010 | Leave a Comment
20 Million Miles to Earth (1957)
IMDB rating: 6.30
Plot: When the first manned flight to Venus returns to Earth, the rocket crash-lands in the Mediterranean near a small Italian fishing village. The locals manage to save one of the astronauts Colonel Calder, the mission commander. A young boy also recovers what turns out to be a [...]
Feb
21
Blade Runner (Final cut)
February 21, 2010 | Leave a Comment
Blade Runner (Final cut) (2007)
IMDB rating: 8.30
Plot: Deckard is a Blade Runner, a police man of the future who hunts down and terminates replicants, artificially created humans. He wants to get out of the force, but is drawn back in when 4 “skin jobs”, a slang term for replicants, hijack a ship back to Earth. [...]
Feb
13
Spider-Man 2
February 13, 2010 | Leave a Comment
Spider-Man 2 (2004)
IMDB rating: 7.90
Plot: Peter Parker (Tobey McGuire) can’t seem to catch any kind of break. Being Spiderman has brought him nothing but problems as far as his personal life is concerned. Not only that, Mary Jane Watson (Kirsten Dunst) is engaged to astronaut John Jameson, and Peter may lose her forever. Things are [...]
Feb
5
Matrix, The
February 5, 2010 | Leave a Comment
Matrix, The (1999)
IMDB rating: 8.60
Plot: In the near future, a computer hacker named Neo (Keanu Reeves) discovers that all life on Earth may be nothing more than an elaborate facade created by a malevolent cyber-intelligence, for the purpose of placating us while our life essence is “farmed” to fuel the Matrix’s campaign of domination in [...]
Feb
4
Futurama: The Beast with a Billion Backs
February 4, 2010 | Leave a Comment
Futurama: The Beast with a Billion Backs (2008)
IMDB rating: 7.40
Plot: The Planet Express crew must work to fix rips between their universe and another inhabited by a planet-sized, tentacle alien which soon takes over the Earth and uses it’s ability to control Fry to command an entire religion which takes over and convinces the inhabitants [...]
Jan
14
Cloverfield
January 14, 2010 | Leave a Comment
Cloverfield (2008)
IMDB rating: 7.60
Plot: Cloverfield follows five New Yorkers from the perspective of a hand-held video camera. The movie is exactly the length of a DV Tape and a sub-plot is established by showing bits and pieces of video previously recorded on the tape that is being recorded over. The movie starts as a monster [...]