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Ready Player One – A Movie Review

April 29, 2018 B. John 423 Views 0 Comments Action, Adventure, Ben Mendelsohn, Ernest Cline, Lena Waithe, Mark Rylance, Sci-Fi, Simon Pegg, Steven Spielberg, Zak Penn

In the year 2045, the real world is a harsh place. The only time Wade Watts (Tye Sheridan) truly feels alive is when he escapes to the OASIS, an immersive virtual universe where most of humanity spends their days. In the OASIS, you can go anywhere, do anything, be anyone-the only limits are your own imagination. The OASIS was created by the brilliant and eccentric James Halliday (Mark Rylance), who left his immense fortune and total control of the Oasis to the winner of a three-part contest he designed to find a worthy heir.

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Arrival — A Movie Review

December 7, 2016June 14, 2017 B. John 378 Views 0 Comments Amy Adams, Dennis Villeneuve, Drama, Forest Whitaker, Jeremy Renner, Michael Stuhlbarg, Mystery, Sci-Fi

When mysterious spacecraft touch down across the globe, an elite team – led by expert linguist Louise Banks – is brought together to investigate. As mankind teeters on the verge of global war, Banks and the team race against time for answers – and to find them, she will take a chance that could threaten her life, and quite possibly humanity.

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Movie Review – Mad Max: Fury Road

June 7, 2015 B. John 300 Views 0 Comments Action, Adventure, Brendan McCarthy, Charlize Theron, George Miller, Hugh Keays-Byrne, Josh Helman, Nathan Jones, Nicholas Hoult, Nick Lathouris, Rosie Huntingon-Whiteley, Sci-Fi, Tom Hardy, Zoe Kravitz

An apocalyptic story set in a stark desert landscape where humanity is broken, and almost everyone is fighting for the necessities of life, especially water. I was surprised at how much I actually liked it. I was set for the disappointment that sequels usually bring. However, Mad Max: Fury Road is a visually stunning work by George Miller.

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Movie Review – Ex Machini

June 6, 2015June 6, 2015 B. John 263 Views 0 Comments Alex Garland, Alicia Vikander, Corey Johnson, Domhnall Gleeson, Drama, Oscar Isaac, Sci-Fi

Caleb, a 26 year old coder at the world’s largest internet company, wins a competition to spend a week at a private mountain retreat belonging to Nathan, the reclusive CEO of the company. But when Caleb arrives at the remote location he finds that he will have to participate in a strange and fascinating experiment in which he must interact with the world’s first true artificial intelligence, housed in the body of a beautiful robot girl. Watch this movie, it’s weird, it’s claustrophobic, it will suck you in, and it will make you stop and think.

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Movie Review – Interstellar

June 6, 2015 B. John 255 Views 0 Comments Adventure, Anne Hathaway, Christopher Nolan, Ellen Burstyn, John Lithgow, Jonathan Nolan, Mackenzie Foy, Matt Daymon, Matthew McConaughey, Sci-Fi, Topher Grace

In the near future, Earth has been devastated by drought and famine, causing a scarcity in food and extreme changes in climate. When humanity is facing extinction, a mysterious rip in the space-time continuum is discovered, giving mankind the opportunity to widen its lifespan. A group of explorers must travel beyond our solar system in search of a planet that can sustain life. I watched this one afternoon a few weeks ago on Amazon Streaming. I would like to have seen it in iMax. It was a very good movie. Well worth watching.

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Gravity – A Movie Review

October 18, 2013October 18, 2013 B. John 277 Views 0 Comments 3D, Alfonso Cuarón, Amy Warren, Astronauts, Ed Harris, Fantasy, George Clooney, Orto Ignatiussen, Paul Sharma, Sandra Bullock, Sci-Fi, Shuttle, space, Space Station

Dr. Ryan Stone (Sandra Bullock) is a brilliant medical engineer on her first shuttle mission, with veteran astronaut Matt Kowalsky (George Clooney) in command of his last flight before retiring. But on a seemingly routine spacewalk, disaster strikes. The shuttle is destroyed, leaving Stone and Kowalsky completely alone – tethered to nothing but each other and spiraling out into the blackness. On the whole, the movie just didn’t come anywhere close to the hype.

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World War Z-A Movie Review

July 29, 2013August 3, 2013 B. John 227 Views 0 Comments Anthony Mackie, Brad Pitt, David Morse, Elyes Gabel, Horror, James Badge Dale, Julia Levy-Boeken, Marc Forster, Matthew Michael Carnahan, Max Brooks, Mireille Enos, Sci-Fi, Sterling Jerins

Life for former United Nations investigator Gerry Lane and his family seems content. Suddenly, the world is plagued by a mysterious infection turning whole human populations into rampaging mindless zombies. After barely escaping the chaos, Lane is persuaded to go on a mission to investigate this disease. What follows is a perilous trek around the world where Lane must brave horrific dangers and long odds to find answers before human civilization falls. This is likely the best movie of the summer.

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Star Trek (2009) – A Movie Review

May 17, 2009 B. John 205 Views 1 Comment Action, Adventure, Ben Cross, Bruce Greenwood, Chris Pine, Fantasy, J.J. Abrams, John Cho, Leonard Nimoy, Sci-Fi, star trek, Zachary Quinto

The fate of the galaxy rests in the hands of bitter rivals. One, James Kirk, is a delinquent, thrill-seeking Iowa farm boy. The other, Spock, was raised in a logic-based society that rejects all emotion. As fiery instinct clashes with calm reason, their unlikely but powerful partnership is the only thing capable of leading their crew through unimaginable danger, boldly going where no one has gone before. I’d recommend the movie.

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The Happening – A Movie Review

June 15, 2008 B. John 150 Views 0 Comments Action, M. Night Shyamalan, Mark Wahlberg, Sci-Fi, Thriller, Zooey Deschanel

I thought the Sixth Sense was a good movie with a great plot twist. Shyamalan’s movie Signs was a true horror sci-fi classic, but I’d change the title of this movie “The Not Happening.” I view this as a complete loss of 90 plus minutes of my life.

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28 Weeks Later

November 18, 2007 B. John 197 Views 1 Comment 28 Weeks Later, Drama, Horro, Juan Carlos Fresnadillo, Sci-Fi, Thriller

Six months after the rage virus was inflicted on the population of Great Britain, the US Army helps to secure a small area of London for the survivors to repopulate and start again. But not everything goes to plan.

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Transformers

October 31, 2007 B. John 151 Views 0 Comments Action, Adventure, John Turturro, Jon Voight, Megan Fox, Michael Bay, Sci-Fi, Shia LaBeouf, Thriller

High-school student Sam Witwicky buys his first car, who is actually the Autobot Bumblebee. Bumblebee defends Sam and his girlfriend Mikaela Banes from the Decepticon Barricade, before the other Autobots arrive on Earth. They are searching for the Allspark, and the war on Earth heats up as the Decepticons attack a United States military base in Qatar. Sam and Mikaela are taken by the top-secret agency Sector 7 to help stop the Decepticons, but when they learn the agency also intends to destroy the Autobots, they formulate their own plan to save the world.

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