Deconstructing the machinery of cinema.
Seven miles beneath the ocean's surface, a large-scale mining operation is devastated by an unexpected earthquake. Engineer Norah Price, her captain Lucien (Vincent Cassel), and a small band of survivors desperately work to reach safety before the entire facility collapses. Something has emerged from deep beneath the ocean floor, however, and has started to hunt ...
A message is transmitted through space: Emperor Palpatine (Ian McDiarmid), ruler of the once-defeated Empire, has somehow survived certain death and now threatens the galaxy again. While the First Order's Supreme Leader Kylo Ren (Adam Driver) races to hunt Palpatine down, members of the Resistance - Rey (Daisy Ridley), Poe (Oscar Isaac), and Finn (John ...
Death row prisoner Callum Lynch (Michael Fassbender) is kidnapped after a faked execution and wakes up in a secret facility in Madrid. There he is plugged into "the Animus" - a cutting edge technology that allows people to experience the lives of their ancestors - and forced to help an ancient conspiracy of Templars in ...
Hollywood is, if nothing else, opportunistic. Take as an example Lamont Johnson’s 1983 science fiction adventure Spacehunter: Adventures In the Forbidden Zone. One-part space opera, one-part Mad Max pastiche, it took advantage of a then-new technique for shooting feature films in stereoscopic 3D – a novelty that had been popular in the 1950s but proved ...
Here's a thing: if you are reading this from North America and are of a sufficient age, you probably remember a 1984 made-for-television film named The Ewok Adventure. It was a spin-off from 1983's Star Wars sequel Return of the Jedi, and saw two human children get rescued from a crashed spaceship by the cuddlesome Ewoks of Endor ...
Five years after Godzilla levelled half of San Francisco, an outpost for the global monster-monitoring outfit Monarch is attacked: scientist Emma Russell (Vera Farmiga) and her daughter Madison (Millie Bobby Brown) are kidnapped along with Russell's experimental device ORCA, which can communicate and even influence giant monsters. Once this technology is used to awaken the ...
A bright yellow tentacled alien with an eerie smiling, spherical head blows a hole through the moon. He then happily announces it's going to do the same to the Earth in one year, unless a classroom of 15 year-old Japanese high schoolers can assassinate him first. That's the premise of Assassination Classroom, a serialised manga by ...
