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The best science fiction movies from every decade.
Review of 'I Thought You Would Last Forever'
I Thought You Would Last Forever - the English title of Ya dumal, ty budesh vsegda, a 2013 Russian feature-length time-travel romance, now streaming free with English subtitles on Amazon Prime -- is no Anna Karenina. But it tells a pretty good time travel story of broken hearts and quietly heroic attempts to repair them, and is imbued with the fatalistic but deeply human Russian spirit.
Paul LevinsonPublished 6 years ago in FuturismReview of 'The Cloverfield Paradox'
Well, there really wasn't any paradox in it (things going very wrong does not equate to paradox), and the story was at least much horror as science fiction, but The Cloverfield Paradox on Netflix was pretty good science fiction of the alternate-reality variety anyway.
Paul LevinsonPublished 6 years ago in FuturismThe Next 'Planet of the Apes' Movie
On July 14th, 2017, War for the Planet of the Apes was released in theaters earning a staggering 490 million dollars at the box office. This is the third installment of the new Apes series. The movie, like its predecessors, was a commercial and financial success.
Joseph PecherPublished 6 years ago in FuturismReview of 'ARQ'
Hey, I recently watched ARQ—more than a year after it was first released on Netflix—a time-loop Groundhog Day meets I don't know, Terminator movie, about a couple in a facility near the end of the world in some desperate battle, obliged to relive a few hours over and over again, because every time they're killed by masked then unmasked intruders, they wake up in the same bed, together, with memories (usually) of what happened to them in the earlier loops. This is because the guy is the programmer of a machine that can (presumably) run forever because it keeps regenerating its energy, by thrusting itself and those in its vicinity a little bit back into the past.
Paul LevinsonPublished 6 years ago in FuturismReview of 'The Man from the Future'
This one's from Brazil, in Portuguese, from 2011, by way of Netflix in 2016, and I recently watched it as part of my time-travel movie and TV extravaganza. The Man from the Future - O Homem do Futuro in Portuguese - stars Wagner Moura as an accidental time-traveling scientist who finds himself some twenty years in his past — in 1991 — and in a position to change the course of his personal history, and get the girl (played by Alinne Moraes) he's loved all of these years, but lost for some reason at that crucial moment in 1991.
Paul LevinsonPublished 6 years ago in FuturismScorecard Weekly - 'The Cloverfield Paradox'
Guess who’s back? Back again— That’s obviously a rhetorical question, but hey, I bet those lyrics are racing through your mind right now.
Donovan BarlowPublished 6 years ago in Futurism'The Cloverfield Paradox' Review
In recent years, music industry PR gurus started a trend where they use ninja-like stealth to release surprise albums from major recording artists like Beyoncé and Rihanna. Their line of reasoning: As it gets harder to market albums, the buzz that comes with a surprise debut will help the record stand out. And now, with The Cloverfield Paradox, Netflix is getting in on the act. In an unexpected move, Netflix announced the film would be available to stream right after the Super Bowl. So is their decision savvy marketing meant to capitalize on the year's biggest television event or a crafty move intended to overhype a trash film before critics can tear it apart?
Victor StiffPublished 6 years ago in FuturismReview of 'An Angel for May'
An Angel for May just showed up on Amazon Prime. I just saw it, and think of it as a YA (young adult) Outlander. Significantly—or not—the Melvin Burgess novel on which the 2002 movie is based was published in 1992, or just a year after Diana Gabaldon published her first Outlander novel. I have no idea if Burgess read and was inspired by Outlander, but the two stories have a lot common. Time travel in An Angel for May happens when the hero, young Tom, walks through a broken stone facade of an old building. Both stories have a foot in the Second World War—the point of departure for Claire in Outlander, the terminus for Tom. Both are UK-based. And both are, in significant part, about the time traveler trying to change history.
Paul LevinsonPublished 6 years ago in Futurism'The Discovery'
The Discovery (2017, Netflix) is a strange, edgy, powerfully soft-spoken movie about a scientific attempt to find, map, and understand the afterlife. As such, it bears some resemblance to Kiefer Sutherland's 1990 Flatliners (coincidentally remade in 2017, but I haven't yet seen it). The Discovery sports Robert Redford in a quite central role, with Jason Segel, Rooney Mara (House of Cards), Jesse Plemons (Friday Night Lights), and Riley Keough (first season of The Girlfriend Experience) in leading and strong supporting roles.
Paul LevinsonPublished 6 years ago in FuturismReview of 'The Time We're In'
Stopping time is a highly effective but not often used technique in the time-travel genre, rich in possibilities for mischief as well as the most profound changes in human life. Nicholson Baker's masterpiece, The Fermata, is an example mostly of the mischief variety—erotic mischief, to be more exact—in which the hero stops time to undress women (see my brief review here). Likely because Baker is not seen as a science fiction writer, The Fermata is not usually considered to be science fiction or time travel, though Neil Gaiman and Robert Zemeckis are reportedly working on a screenplay.
Paul LevinsonPublished 6 years ago in FuturismThe Weirdest Sex Scenes in Sci-Fi History
Sci-fi is certainly not afraid of exploring areas of the human mind others would shy away from. Between the infamous and incestuous Star Wars kiss between Luke Skywalker and Princess Leia, and multiple movies that dabble in human-alien intimacy, there are a lot of candidates for a list of weirdest sex scenes in sci-fi history. For the purposes of this list, we've narrowed it down to ten.
Evelyn StarrPublished 6 years ago in Futurism- Top Story - January 2018
Expect More than the Unexpected at the 2018 Philip K. Dick Science Fiction Film Festival
It's almost—no, could it be? A dimension as vast as space and infinite as timelessness. It's the only known setting that actually beckons randomized oddities, without a single isotope of negative cynicism.