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Reviewing the best science fiction movies from the past, present, and future.
Akira (Anime)
I vaguely remember seeing Katsuhiro Otomo's Akira as a child--and most likely not understanding a minute of it, but just sitting back and letting the animated images of a futuristic "Neo-Tokyo" wash over me. Decades later, watching it yet again, on a digital YouTube social media platform no one could have foreseen in 1988, I was struck by how modern and well-preserved it is, how much it set the bar for decades of similar anime films, having all the earmarks of the various conventions that define the genre.
Movie Review: The Earth Vs. The Flying Saucers.
Listen to this show wherever you stream or download your podcast. Welcome back to another episode of my podcast on 50s sci-fi. Today, I will be reviewing the classic movie, "The Earth Vs. The Flying Saucers". The film stars Hugh Marlowe and Joan Taylor and was produced by Charles H. Schneer, with a screenplay by Curt Siodmak, and directed by Fred F. Sears. The movie was released in Los Angeles on June 13, 1956, and has a runtime of 84 minutes.
Edward GermanPublished 5 months ago in FuturismBest mind bending movie that make you horrified
1. Inception Inception, American sci-fi spine chiller film, delivered in 2010, that investigates the limits among dream and reality. inception focuses on agonizing "extractor" Dom Cobb (played by Leonardo DiCaprio) — a cheat who attacks targets' fantasies through a compound prompted shared dream state to take important data. Having gained notoriety for being the most incredible in his business, Cobb is charged by well off financial specialist Mr. Saito (Ken Watanabe) to assume the extraordinary accomplishment of opposite extraction — inspiring a target to think about a thought, also called origin — to kill a business contender. Cobb gathers a group to endeavor the purportedly unimaginable errand: long-term partner Arthur (Joseph Gordon-Levitt), ace controller Eames (Tom Solid), scientist Yusuf (Dileep Rao), and "engineer" Ariadne (Ellen Page), who is responsible for making the dreamscapes the group will possess. To establish the thought, Cobb and his team should slide through a few layers of dreaming to enter the objective's psyche. All the while, notwithstanding, Cobb's own psyche begins to surface — to lamentable impact. The group is over and over frustrated by a subliminal projection of Cobb's dead spouse, Mal (Marion Cotillard), and Cobb himself is compelled to address whether his world is pretty much as genuine as it appears.
Ishan GuptaPublished 5 months ago in FuturismTron
Tron is one of my all-time favorite movies, a sci-fi feast that takes place inside a video game world ruled over by the MCP (Master Control Program), a world wherein gladiatorial "programs" battle it out for supremacy, riding rainbow-spewing laser bikes, and going up against floating robot menaces that transform their legs into giant crushing, killing presses. The world is stark, yet weirdly beautiful, an outgrowth of the imagination that conceived a cyberspace realm and brought it to life for the characters to occupy as alternate versions of their meatspace selves. It was groundbreaking stuff in 1982; hence, it flopped at the box office, only attaining cult status in the intervening years, as technology has caught up with and surpassed the virtual world envisioned by the filmmakers.
Devil Girl from Mars
Devil Girl from Mars is a 1954 British film about a flying saucer landing on the Scottish moors near a country inn. The residents are a professor, his assistant, an old couple that runs the place, another woman, some society dame, a young boy, a waitress, her escaped convict husband, and whew! I get tired just giving out that roster. Was there anyone I missed?
The 'Blade Runner' Question
Something that I find very interesting whenever I read an article about Blade Runner film theory is that they never (and I do mean NEVER) mention the book the movie is based on. It's called Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep by Philip K. Dick. Instead, everyone gets caught up in this question: Is Deckard a replicant?
Stephanie Van OrmanPublished 5 months ago in FuturismTop Stand Up Comedy Shows Online in 2023
Explore the world of stand-up comedy. Discover top online standup comedy shows currently streaming on Netflix, Amazon Prime, GUDSHO, and more, like Chappelle's Home Team and Hannah Gadsby's 'Something Special.' Learn about comedians like Manoj Prabakar and Vir Das. Find out how they make money from live performances and online platforms.
‘Her’: An Essential Revisit
When ‘Her’ initially released in 2013, its predictions about the future ahead may have seemed nebulous. In the year 2023, though, it’s a difficult film to watch without an unnerving awareness of the reality we’re marching into.
Ben UlanseyPublished 6 months ago in Futurism'Tenet': Time-Bending Masterpiece or Misfire?
Released in theaters before the arrival of coronavirus vaccines, many had hoped in September of 2020 that Tenet would be the movie that proved why theaters were still necessary. But in a world reeling from the first pandemic in a century, it never managed to achieve the acclaim it strived for. When compared with so many of Christopher Nolan’s previous films, its reception was fairly tepid.
Ben UlanseyPublished 6 months ago in FuturismThe Believable Dystopia of Black Mirror Season 5
So what if I'm doing a review for the fifth season of Black Mirror a few years late… and? Maybe I wanted to put off my fears for the future for as long as I could. Maybe I wasn't particularly excited to watch the singer of "Party in the USA" starring in a Black Mirror episode. But now that season 6 is upon us, I guess I can wait no longer.
Ben UlanseyPublished 6 months ago in FuturismA new kind of 3D-printed carrot, in the words of its Qatar-based inventors
Qatari students aim to make ‘food accessible to people all over the world’ with their newly invented 3D printer. Innovation in the heart of Qatar has birthed a groundbreaking solution to the widespread issue of food insecurity. Two visionary students, Mohammad Annan, aged 20, and Lujain Al Mansoori, aged 21, both pursuing information systems at Doha's Carnegie Mellon University, have achieved an extraordinary feat - the creation of a 3D printer capable of mass-producing vegetables, offering a potential remedy to the global food crisis.
nizam uddinPublished 6 months ago in FuturismThe Evolution of Special Effects in Film: From Practical to Digital Magic
The movie and film industry has always been something where directors and creators can show us a new world. One of the big things that helps make this happen is special effects. Special effects have been adapting and growing throughout the years and are now so advanced everything looks natural. This blog by Anthony J Mazza will go through the evolution of special effects in movies, from just minor practical effects to significant impacts of digital and visual magic.
Anthony J MazzaPublished 6 months ago in Futurism