Posts Tagged ‘science’

Planet of the Apes (2001)

Wednesday, May 9th, 2007
Genres: Action | Sci-Fi
Countries: USA
Actors: Wahlberg, Mark | Roth, Tim | Bonham Carter, Helena | Duncan, Michael Clarke | Giamatti, Paul | Warren, Estella | Tagawa, Cary-Hiroyuki | Warner, David | Kristofferson, Kris | Avari, Erick | Elliott, Lucas | Parke, Evan | Shadix, Glenn | Shen, Freda Foh | Ellis, Chris
Directors: Burton, Tim
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It is the year 2029: Astronaut Leo Davidson (Mark Wahlberg) boards a pod cruiser on a Space Station for a “routine” reconnaissance mission. But an aburupt detour through a space time wormhole lands him on a strange planet where talking apes rule over the human race. With the help of a sympathetic chimpanzee activist named Ari (Helena Bonham-Carter) and a small band of human rebels, Leo leads the effort to evade the advancing Gorilla Army led by General Thade (Tim Roth) and his most trusted warrior Attar (Michael Clarke Duncan). Now the race is on to reach a sacred temple within the planet’s Forbidden Zone to discover the shocking secrets of mankind’s past - and the key to its future.

Planets, The (1999)

Monday, April 2nd, 2007
Genres: Documentary
Countries: UK
Actors: Stone, Karen | West, Samuel
Directors: McNab, David
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Interesting narrative, excellent computer generated images (for its time), extensive interviews with numerous scientists (mostly Americans and Russians-thank goodness this documentary isn’t biased towards any country) and a memorable soundtrack combined to make compelling viewing for anyone interested in astronomy.

Twister (1996)

Thursday, February 15th, 2007
Genres: Action | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Hunt, Helen | Paxton, Bill | Elwes, Cary | Gertz, Jami | Hoffman, Philip Seymour | Smith, Lois | Ruck, Alan | Whalen, Sean | Thomson, Scott | Field, Todd | Slotnick, Joey | Josepher, Wendle | Davies, Jeremy | Grenier, Zach | Sporleder, Gregory
Directors: Bont, Jan de
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TV weatherman Bill Harding is trying to get his tornado-hunter wife, Jo, to sign divorce papers so he can marry his girlfriend Melissa. But Mother Nature, in the form of a series of intense storms sweeping across Oklahoma, has other plans. Soon the three have joined the team of stormchasers as they attempt to insert a revolutionary measuring device into the very heart of several extremely violent tornados.

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?

Primer (2004)

Saturday, February 3rd, 2007
Genres: Drama | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Carruth, Shane | Sullivan, David | Gooden, Casey | Upadhyaya, Anand | Crawford, Carrie | Butler, Jay | Carruth, John | Tapia, Juan | Warren, Ashley | Thomson, Samantha | Carruth, Chip | Price, Delaney | Pyland, Jack | Bradshaw, Keith | Upadhyaya, Ashok
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At night and on weekends, four men in a suburban garage have built a cottage industry of error-checking devices. But, they know that there is something more. There is some idea, some mechanism, some accidental side effect that is standing between them and a pure leap of innovation. And so, through trial and error they are building the device that is missing most. However, two of these men find the device and immediately realize that it is too valuable to market. The limit of their trust in each other is strained when they are faced with the question, If you always want what you can’t have, what do you want when you can have anything?