Posts Tagged ‘mathematics’

Sphere (1998)

Thursday, September 11th, 2008
Genres: Horror | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Jackson, Samuel L. | Hoffman, Dustin | Stone, Sharon | Latifah, Queen | Schreiber, Liev | Coyote, Peter | Marga Gomez
Directors: Levinson, Barry
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1000 feet below the ocean, navy divers discover an object half-a-mile long. A crack team of scientists are deployed to the site in Deepsea Habitats. What they find boggles the mind as they discover a perfect metal sphere. What is the secret behind the sphere? Will they survive the mysterious ‘manifestations’? Who or what is creating these? They may never live to find out.

I.Q. (1994)

Monday, May 26th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Robbins, Tim | Ryan, Meg | Matthau, Walter | Jacobi, Lou | Saks, Gene | Maher, Joseph | Fry, Stephen | Shalhoub, Tony | Whaley, Frank | Durning, Charles | Curtis, Keene | Playten, Alice | Zorn, Danny | Hanft, Helen | Berlind, Roger
Directors: Schepisi, Fred
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Edward Walters, an auto mechanic, falls for the intelligent and beautiful Catherine Boyd. It is love at first sight. There is however a problem, she’s engaged to jerk James Moreland. Fortunately, Catherine’s uncle likes Ed, and with his friends they scheme to make Catherine fall for Ed. The comedy in this movie stems from the fact that Catherine’s uncle is none other than Albert Einstein, who’s portrayed as a fun loving genius, as are his mischievous colleagues, Nathan, Kurt and Boris.

Mean Girls (2004)

Monday, March 17th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Chabert, Lacey | Lohan, Lindsay | McAdams, Rachel | Amanda Seyfried | Tina Fey | Lizzy Caplan
Directors: Waters, Mark S.
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Raised in African bush country by her zoologist parents, Cady Heron thinks she knows about survival of the fittest. But the law of the jungle takes on a whole new meaning when the home-schooled 15-year-old enters public high school for the first time and encounters psychological warfare and unwritten social rules that teenage girls face today.

Sneakers (1992)

Monday, January 21st, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Comedy | Crime | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Marr, Jo | Hershberger, Gary | Redford, Robert | Poitier, Sidney | Strathairn, David | Aykroyd, Dan | River Phoenix | Elfman, Bodhi | Dowse, Denise | Hanyee | Busfield, Timothy | Jones, Eddie | Winters, Time | McDonnell, Mary | Asai, Jun
Directors: Phil Alden Robinson
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A group of security analysts are offered a job by the CIA and when they are reluctant, pressure is brought to bear by the threat to disclose the identity of their leader, a 60s radical with outstanding warrants. A chip exists that will allow any computer to be cracked, and organized crime will soon control it, though sudden changes in their police records suggest that it is already operational.

Cube (1997)

Thursday, January 3rd, 2008
Genres: Drama | Horror | Mystery | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: Canada
Actors: de Boer, Nicole | Guadagni, Nicky | Hewlett, David | Miller, Andrew | Richings, Julian | Robson, Wayne | Wint, Maurice Dean
Directors: Natali, Vincenzo
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Six different people, each from a very different walk of life, awaken to find themselves inside a giant cube with thousands of possible rooms. Each has a skill that becomes clear when they must band together to get out: a cop, a math whiz, a building designer, a doctor, an escape master, and a disabled man. Each plays a part in their thrilling quest to find answers as to why they’ve been imprisoned.

Event Horizon (1997)

Thursday, January 3rd, 2008
Genres: Horror | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Fishburne, Laurence | Neill, Sam | Quinlan, Kathleen | Richardson, Joely | Jones, Richard T. | Noseworthy, Jack | Isaacs, Jason | Pertwee, Sean | Marinker, Peter | Chant, Holley | Wright, Barclay | Huntley, Noah | Jezek, Robert | Booth, Emily | May, Teresa
Directors: Anderson, Paul W.S.
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A rescue crew in space comes to investigate and if possible, rescue a government spaceship gone missing for seven years. When they board the ship, they learn that the ship has been somewhere beyond space and brought something back with it that is an unspeakable evil.

Proof (2005)

Thursday, October 4th, 2007
Genres: Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Paltrow, Gwyneth | Hopkins, Anthony | Gyllenhaal, Jake | Davis, Hope | McCarthy, Danny | Daszkjewicz, Tobiasz | Houston, Gary | Wittman, Anne | Zimmerman, Leigh | Stinton, Colin | Burnett, Leland | Keefe, John | Chung, Chipo | Harris, C. Gerod | Seth, Roshan
Directors: Madden, John
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The daughter of a brilliant but mentally disturbed mathematician (recently deceased) tries to come to grips with her possible inheritance: his insanity. Complicating matters are one of her father’s ex-students who wants to search through his papers and her estranged sister who shows up to help settle his affairs.

Cube Zero (2004)

Sunday, August 19th, 2007
Genres: Drama | Horror | Mystery | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: Canada
Actors: Bennett, Zachary | Moore, Stephanie | Riley, Michael | Martin Roach | Huband, David | Nahrgang, Mike 'Nug' | McMillan, Richard | Hawkes, Terri | Munch, Tony | Geljo, Jasmin | Klattenhoff, Diego | Filippeos, Alexia | Cursione, Fernando | Arslanian, Araxi | Peace, Joshua
Directors: Ernie Barbarash
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A young man whose job is to watch over the Cube endeavours to rescue an innocent woman trapped in one of its rooms.

Spider-Man 2 (2004)

Sunday, May 6th, 2007
Genres: Action | Fantasy | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Maguire, Tobey | Dunst, Kirsten | Franco, James | Molina, Alfred | Harris, Rosemary | J.K. Simmons | Murphy, Donna | Gillies, Daniel | Baker, Dylan | Nunn, Bill | Ferlito, Vanessa | Mandvi, Aasif | Dafoe, Willem | Robertson, Cliff | Raimi, Ted
Directors: Raimi, Sam
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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 so bad for him that he is pushed past his breaking point, so he decides that he doesn’t want to be Spiderman anymore, until a freak accident transforms Dr. Otto Octavius into Dr. Octopus, a super-villian with four metal tentacles coming out of him. Peter realizes that only Spiderman can stop him, but of course, problems arise. Mary Jane gets caught in the middle, and Harry Osborn, who still blames Spiderman for the death of his father, Norman Osborn, also the Green Goblin, wants him dead. Spiderman will have to push himself past his limits if he’s going to survive.

Contact (1997)

Monday, February 12th, 2007
Genres: Drama | Mystery | Sci-Fi
Countries: USA
Actors: Malone, Jena | Morse, David | Foster, Jodie | Blake, Geoffrey | Fichtner, William | Chester, Sami | McNeil, Timothy | Surillo, Laura Elena | McConaughey, Matthew | Skerritt, Tom | Strozier, Henry | Chaban, Michael | Martini, Max | King, Larry | Garner, Thomas
Directors: Zemeckis, Robert
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Contact, based on the novel of the same name by Carl Sagan, is the story of a free thinking radio astronomer (Jodie Foster) who discovers an intelligent signal broadcast from deep space. She and her fellow scientists are able to decipher the Message and discover detailed instructions for building a mysterious Machine. Will the Machine spell the end of our world, or the end of our superstitions? Will we take our place among the races of the Galaxy, or are we just an upstart species with a long way to go?