Posts Tagged ‘astronaut’

Naqoyqatsi: Life as War (2002)

Sunday, November 16th, 2008
Genres: Documentary | War
Countries: USA
Actors: Aikman, Troy | Beatles, The | Bin Laden, Osama | Brando, Marlon | Castro, Fidel | Christopher, Warren | Clinton, Bill | Edison, Thomas A. | Einstein, Albert | Hitler, Adolf | John, Elton | Khrushchev, Nikita | King, Martin Luther | Kissinger, Henry | Lama, Dalai
Directors: Reggio, Godfrey
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In this cinematic concert, mesmerizing images are plucked from everyday reality, then visually altered with state-of-the-art digital techniques. The result is a chronicle of the shift from a world organized by the principles of nature to one dominated by technology, the synthetic and the virtual. Extremes of intimacy and spectacle, tragedy and hope fuse in a tidal wave of visuals and music, giving rise to a unique, artistic experience that reflects the vision of a brave new globalized world.

Day After Tomorrow, The (2004)

Sunday, November 16th, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Drama | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Quaid, Dennis | Gyllenhaal, Jake | Rossum, Emmy | Mihok, Dash | Sanders, Jay O. | Ward, Sela | Nichols, Austin | Smith, Arjay | Tomita, Tamlyn | Roiz, Sasha | Holm, Ian | Sharara, Nassim | Alacchi, Carl | Welsh, Kenneth | Samah, Michael A.
Directors: Emmerich, Roland
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This movie takes a big-budget, special-effects-filled look at what the world would look like if the greenhouse effect and global warming continued at such levels that they resulted in worldwide catastrophe and disaster, including multiple hurricanes, tornadoes, tidal waves, floods and the beginning of the next Ice Age. At the center of the story is a paleoclimatologist (a scientist who studies the ways weather patterns changed in the past), Professor Jack Hall (Quaid), who tries to save the world from the effects of global warming while also trying to get to his son, Sam (Gyllenhaal), who was in New York City as part of a scholastic competition, when the city was overwhelmed by the chilling beginnings of the new Ice Age. In addition to all of the other challenges Dr. Hall faces, he’s also going against the flow as humanity races south to warmer climes, and he’s nearly the only one going north…

2010 (1984)

Thursday, August 28th, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Mystery | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Scheider, Roy | Lithgow, John | Mirren, Helen | Balaban, Bob | Dullea, Keir | Rain, Douglas | Osborne, Madolyn Smith | Elcar, Dana | Jaffe, Taliesin | McEachin, James | Deschanel, Mary Jo | Baskin, Elya | Kramarov, Saveli | Rudnik, Oleg | Shneider, Natasha
Directors: Hyams, Peter
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In the year 2001, Dave Bowman was taken by the Jupiter monolith and transformed into a powerful being. Now, in the year 2010, Dr. Heywood Floyd, the man held responsible for Discovery’s failure, is going to Jupiter. He and his crewmates must reactivate the psychotic HAL-9000 computer, so they may learn what happened, and they must find out the meaning of Dave Bowman’s last transmission… “My God, it’s full of stars…”

2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)

Thursday, August 28th, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Sci-Fi
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Dullea, Keir | Lockwood, Gary | Sylvester, William | Richter, Daniel | Rossiter, Leonard | Tyzack, Margaret | Beatty, Robert | Sullivan, Sean | Rain, Douglas | Miller, Frank | Weston, Bill | Bishop, Ed | Beck, Glenn | Gifford, Alan | Gillis, Ann
Directors: Kubrick, Stanley
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2001 is a story of evolution. Sometime in the distant past someone or something nudged evolution by placing a monolith here on earth (presumably elsewhere throughout the universe as well) Evolution then enabled man to reach the moon’s surface where he finds yet another monolith, one which signals the monolith-placers that we have evolved that far. Now a race begins between computers (HAL) and man (Bowman) to reach the monolith-placers, the winner will achieve the next step in evolution, whatever that may be.

Mission to Mars (2000)

Wednesday, July 16th, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Drama | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Sinise, Gary | Robbins, Tim | Cheadle, Don | O'Connell, Jerry | Outerbridge, Peter | Smith, Kavan | Bailey Jr., Robert | Ballard, Jeffrey | Woods, Anson | Varughese, Sugith | Musgrave, Story | Mina, Mina E. | Rota, Carlo | Chepovetsky, Dmitry | Sinise, McCanna Anthony
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Commander Luke Graham is selected to lead the first manned mission to Mars. Upon setting foot on the red planet, the team discovers an ancient, domelike structure which appears to be a beacon. The dome destroys the team and leaves Luc injured. The recently widowed Jim McConnell leads the rescue mission. When they arrive, they find Lke surprisingly alive, and he has spent the time alone learning the secrets of the mysterious construct. The question now becomes: do they enter the dome and answer humanity’s oldest question, perhaps risking their lives in doing so, or return to Earth with what they do know and return in force with equipment and supplies?

Species II (1998)

Tuesday, July 8th, 2008
Genres: Horror | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Madsen, Michael | Justin Lazard | Harris, Baxter | Williamson, Mykelti | Helgenberger, Marg | Dzundza, George | Cromwell, James | Wynter, Sarah | Henstridge, Natasha | Myriam Cyr
Directors: Medak, Peter
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Mykelti Williamson and Justin Lazard are a pair of astronauts who make the first successful manned mission to Mars. Lazard’s character gets infected by an alien and slowly begins to mutate. When they get back to Earth all he has on his mind is to have sex with Henstridge!

Superman II (1980)

Wednesday, May 21st, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Fantasy | Romance | Sci-Fi
Countries: UK
Actors: Hackman, Gene | Reeve, Christopher | Beatty, Ned | Cooper, Jackie | Douglas, Sarah | Kidder, Margot | O'Halloran, Jack | Perrine, Valerie | York, Susannah | James, Clifton | Marshall, E.G. | McClure, Marc | Stamp, Terence | Willoughby, Leueen | Pappas, Robin
Directors: Donner, Richard
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This time, the Man of Steel has his hands full with a trio of super-powered villains who escape from their Phantom Zone prison (remember the weird flying diamond-shaped mirror that scooped them up from the planet Krypton?) and land on Earth, where all three have powers to rival Superman’s own. How does it all come out? With a fabulous duel above the streets of Metropolis, and a startling plot twist that neatly ties in Superman’s explosive past. Arch-criminal Lex Luthor plays both ends gleefully against the middle in hopes of a modest reward: Australia.

Sunshine (2007)

Thursday, November 22nd, 2007
Genres: Adventure | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: UK
Actors: Curtis, Cliff | Evans, Chris | Garity, Troy | Macdonald, Archie | Murphy, Cillian | Sanada, Hiroyuki | Strong, Mark | Wong, Benedict | Baeza, Paloma | Byrne, Rose | Macdonald, Sylvia | Yeoh, Michelle
Directors: Boyle, Danny
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50 years into the future, the Sun begins to die, and Earth is dying as a result. A team of astronauts are sent to revive the Sun - but the mission fails. Seven years later, a new team are sent to finish the mission as they are Earth’s last hope.

Astronaut Farmer, The (2006)

Friday, October 19th, 2007
Genres: Adventure | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Thornton, Billy Bob | Madsen, Virginia | Thieriot, Max | Polish, Jasper | Polish, Logan | Dern, Bruce | Polish, Mark | Gries, Jon | Nelson, Tim Blake | Lopez, Sal | J.K. Simmons | Kiersten Warren | Overton, Rick | Edson, Richard | Eberle, Elise
Directors: Polish, Michael
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Texan Charles Farmer left the Air Force as a young man to save the family ranch when his dad died. Like most American ranchers, he owes his bank. Unlike most, he’s an astrophysicist with a rocket in his barn - one he’s built and wants to take into space. It’s his dream. The FBI puts him under surveillance when he tries to buy rocket fuel; the FAA stalls him when he files a flight plan - it’s post-9/11, after all. His wife is angry when she finds out their bank is initiating foreclosure. Charlie fears failure and decides, precipitously, to launch. Are twenty-first century American dreams just a sign of insanity? Are those who believe in dreamers only fools?

Fountain, The (2006)

Friday, October 19th, 2007
Genres: Action | Drama | Romance | Sci-Fi
Countries: USA
Actors: Jackman, Hugh | Weisz, Rachel | Burstyn, Ellen | Margolis, Mark | McHattie, Stephen | Hernandez, Fernando | Curtis, Cliff | Thomas, Sean Patrick | Murphy, Donna | Suplee, Ethan | McMillan, Richard | Brass, Lorne | Aronofsky, Abraham | Asofsky, Renee | Majumdar, Anish
Directors: Aronofsky, Darren
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Three stories - one each from the past, present, and future - about men in pursuit of eternity with their love. A conquistador in Mayan country searches for the tree of life to free his captive queen; a medical researcher, working with various trees, looks for a cure that will save his dying wife; a space traveler, traveling with an aged tree encapsulated within a bubble, moves toward a dying star that’s wrapped in a nebula; he seeks eternity with his love. The stories intersect and parallel; the quests fail and succeed.