Opinion as a Movie-freak: SF

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Summary
Two years after the afterlife is scientifically proven, a man attempts to help a young woman break away from her dark past.

Genre : SF
Country : USA

Cast :
Robert Redford : Thomas

Jason Segel : Will
Rooney Mara : Isla

Director :
Charlie McDowell

6.5/10 SF

Passengers (2016)

zaterdag, april 15, 2017

Summary
The spaceship, Starship Avalon, in its 120-year voyage to a distant colony planet known as the "Homestead Colony" and transporting 5,258 people has a malfunction in one of its sleep chambers. As a result one hibernation pod opens prematurely and the one person that awakes, Jim Preston is stranded on the spaceship, still 90 years from his destination.

Genre : SF
Country : USA

Cast :
Chris Pratt : Jim Preston

Jennifer Lawrence : Aurora Lane
Michael Sheen : Arthur

Director : Morten Tyldum

5/10 SF

Bokeh (2017)

zondag, april 02, 2017

Summary
On a romantic getaway to Iceland, a young American couple wake up one morning to discover every person on earth has disappeared. Their struggle to survive and to reconcile the mysterious event lead them to reconsider everything they know about themselves and the world.

Genre : SF/Drama
Country : Iceland

Cast :
Maika Monroe : Jenai

Matt O’Leary : Riley

Director : Geoffrey Orthwein,Andrew Sullivan

6.5/10 SF

Spectral (2016)

zondag, maart 05, 2017

Summary
Civil Unrest in the European country of Moldova has US forces engaging the insurgents however there is a new threat who has decided both are their enemy. This new threat resides in an alternative spectrum that makes them invisible to the naked eye and instant death to anyone confronting them. Locals believe they are Spirits of War but others believe they are superior arms technology fabricated by the Moldova government.

Genre : SF
Country : USA

Cast :
James Badge Dale : Clyne

Emily Mortimer : Fran madison
Bruce Greenwood : General Orland

Director : Nic Mathieu

6/10 SF

iBoy (2017)

vrijdag, februari 10, 2017

Summary
After being shot while calling for help trying to stop a violent attack on his high school girl, a 16 year old boy awakens from a coma to discover that fragments of his smart phone have embedded in his brain, giving him superhero powers. He uses this knowledge and technology to exact revenge on the gang responsible for the attack.

Genre : SF/Crime
Country : UK

Cast :
Bill Milner : Tom

Maisie Williams : Lucy
Rory Kinnaer : Ellman

Director : Adam Randall

7/10 SF

Arrival (2016)

zondag, februari 05, 2017

Summary
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.

Genre : SF
Country : USA

Cast :
Amy Adams : Louise Banks

Jeremy Renner : Ian Donnelly
Forest Whitaker : Colonel Weber

Director : Denis Villeneuve

5/10 SF

Morgan (2016)

zaterdag, januari 28, 2017

Summary
A corporate risk-management consultant must decide whether or not to terminate an artificially created humanoid being.

Genre : SF
Country : USA

Cast :
Anya Taylor-Joy : Morgan

Kate Mara : Lee Weathers
Toby Jones : Dr. Simon Ziegler

Director : Luke Scott

3/10 SF

The Thinning (2016)

maandag, januari 02, 2017

Summary
"The Thinning" takes place in a post-apocalyptic future where population control is dictated by a high-school aptitude test. When two students discover the test is smoke and mirrors hiding a larger conspiracy, they must fight the system to expose it and take it down.

Genre : SF
Country : USA

Cast :
Peyton List : Laina Michaels

Logan Paul : Blake Redding
Calum Worthy : Kellan Woods

Director : Michael J. Gallagher

7/10 SF

Star Trek Beyond (2016)

woensdag, december 21, 2016

Summary
After stopping off at Starbase Yorktown, a remote outpost on the fringes of Federation space, the USS Enterprise, halfway into their five-year mission, is destroyed by a powerful, unstoppable wave of unknown aliens. With the crew stranded on an unknown planet and with no apparent means of rescue, they find themselves against a ruthless enemy with a well-earned hatred of the Federation and what it stands for. Only a rebellious alien warrior can help them reunite and leave the planet to stop this deadly menace from a possible galactic war.

Genre : SF
Country : USA

Cast :
Chris Pine : Captain James T. Kirk

Zachary Quinto : Spock
Karl Urban : Doctor McCoy

Director : Justin Lin

1/10 SF

Let's Be Evil (2016)

vrijdag, november 04, 2016

Summary
Three chaperones are hired to supervise an advanced learning program for gifted children, who wear Augmented Reality Glasses to assist in their education. Contained within a secure, underground facility, events quickly spiral out of control.

Genre : SF
Country : UK

Cast :
Elizabeth Morris : Jenny

Kara Tointon : Tiggs
Elliot James Langridge : Darby

Director : Martin Owen

3/10 History SF

Capsule (2015)

maandag, oktober 10, 2016

Summary
Guy is an experienced British fighter pilot who is in command of Britain's first manned mission to space. He has trained for this for three years at the height of the Cold War and now he is alone in space with a malfunctioning capsule. He has limited contact with the UK, some unusual communication with the US and some unorthodox communication with Tyuratam deep in Soviet Russia. Who will help him? Will he make the right choice?

Genre : SF/History
Country : UK

Cast :
Edmund Kingsley : Guy Taylor

Lisa Greenwood : Charlotte Taylor
David Wayman : Harry

Director : Andrew Martin

6/10 SF

Independence Day : Resurgence (2016)

zaterdag, oktober 01, 2016

Summary
Two decades after the freak alien invasion that nearly destroyed mankind a new threat emerges. This Alien mothership is more than twice the size as the last one and once again, the world's armies must band together to save the world. Do they have enough firepower or will this battle change and will aliens take over?

Genre : SF
Country : USA

Cast :
Liam Hemsworth : Jake Morrison

Jeff Goldblum : David Levinson
Bill Pullman : President Whitmore

Director : Roland Emmerich

1/10 SF

Andròn : The Black Labyrinth (2015)

dinsdag, september 27, 2016

Summary
In the year 2154, a group of young men and women awake in a dark claustrophobic maze. They don't remember who they are or how they got stuck in this labyrinth. The group must learn to decipher codes, understand the signals and beat the tests in this mysterious and bizarre place. Out of necessity they struggle to form a bond to survive, while the outside world watches and wagers on their fate.

Genre : SF
Country : Italy/UK/Malta

Cast :
Skin : Anita

Alec Baldwin : Adam
Danny Glover : Cancellor Gordon

Director : Francesco Cinquemani

6/10 SF

Kill Command (2016)

maandag, september 26, 2016

Summary
Set in a near future, technology-reliant society is creating killing machines. Against this backdrop an elite army unit is helicoptered in to a remote, off-the-grid island training facility, to test the capabilities of the latest prototypes. They set up positions and make short work of the AI targets in the killing field. However, overnight their sentry goes missing, and when they find the corpse the next day they find themselves in the killing field and the tables have turned.

Genre : SF
Country : UK

Cast :
Vanessa Kirby : Mills

Thure Lindhardt : Captain Bukes
David Ajala : Drifter

Director : Steven Gomez

7/10 SF

Equals (2015)

zaterdag, juli 30, 2016

Summary :
In an emotionless utopia, two people fall in love when they regain their feelings from a mysterious disease, causing tensions between them and their society.

Genre : SF/Romance
Country : USA

Cast :
Nicholas Hoult : Silas
Kristan Stewart : Nia
Guy Pearce : Jonas

Director : Drake Doremus

7/10 SF

Midnight Special (2016)

vrijdag, juli 22, 2016

Summary :
Alton Meyer is a boy unlike any other in the world with bizarrely powerful abilities and strange weaknesses. In the middle of the night, his father, Roy, spirits him away from the isolated cult that practically worships him and is determined to regain him at all costs. At the same time, Alton's abilities have been noticed by the US government as well and they are equally insistent on getting to the bottom of this mystery with Paul Sevier of the National Security Agency leading the Federal pursuit with his own questions. These rival hunts force father and son into a desperate run towards a looming date with destiny that could change everything.

Genre : SF
Country : USA/Greece

Cast :
Jaeden Lieberher : Alton
Michael Shannon : Roy
Allira Jaques : Lucas

Director : Chris Sun

5/10 Horror SF

Cell (2016)

maandag, juni 27, 2016

Summary :
When a strange signal pulsates through all cell phone networks worldwide, it starts a murderous epidemic of epic proportions when users become bloodthirsty creatures, and a group of people in New England are among the survivors to deal with the ensuing chaos after.

Genre : SF/Horror
Country : USA

Cast :
John Cusack : Clay Riddell
Samuel L. Jackson : Tom McCourt
Isabelle Fuhrman : Alice Maxwell

Director : Tod Williams

3/10 SF

Approaching the unknown (2016)

woensdag, juni 08, 2016

Summary :

Captain William Stanaforth is on a one-way solo mission to take the first steps in colonizing Mars. Like all pioneers throughout history, Stanaforth will face insurmountable odds and life and death decisions as he rockets bravely through space.

Genre : SF
Country : USA

Cast :
Mark Strong : William Stanaforth
Luke Wilson : Skinny
Sanaa Lathan : Emily Maddox

Director : Mark Elijah Rosenberg

6/10 SF

Star Wars VII : The force Awakens (2015)

woensdag, april 27, 2016

Summary :
30 years after the defeat of Darth Vader and the Empire, Rey, a scavenger from the planet Jakku, finds a BB-8 droid that knows the whereabouts of the long lost Luke Skywalker. Rey, as well as a rogue stormtrooper and two smugglers, are thrown into the middle of a battle between the Resistance and the daunting legions of the First Order.

Genre : SF
Country : USA

Cast :
Daisy Ridley : Rey
John Boyega : Finn
Oscar Isaac : Poe Dameron

Director : J.J. Abrams

2/10 SF Thriller

The Subjects (2015)

maandag, april 25, 2016

Summary :
Eight strangers go into a locked room for clinical trials on a new drug that gives them superpowers.

Genre : SF / Thriller
Country : Australia

Cast :
Paul O'Brien : John
Carlotte Nicdao : Lilly
Frank Magree : Giggles

Director : Robert Mond