Posts Tagged ‘robot’

D.A.R.Y.L. (1985)

Monday, September 22nd, 2008
Genres: Family | Sci-Fi
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Hurt, Mary Beth | McKean, Michael | Walker, Kathryn | Camp, Colleen | Sommer, Josef | Frazier, Ron | Ryan, Steve | Wohl, David | Corkill, Danny | Linker, Amy | Oliver, Barret | Grady, Ed | McGuire, Tucker | Hammatt, Richard | Gudger, Charlie
Directors: Simon Wincer
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A young boy is found wandering without any memory of who he is. A family takes him in and begin to look for clues to help him find his way home. In the meantime, they notice that the boy seems to have certain special abilities, not usually found in kids his age, or even fully-grown adults.

Animatrix, The (2003)

Tuesday, September 9th, 2008
Genres: Action | Animation | Drama | Sci-Fi
Countries: USA
Actors: Watson, Clayton | Ôtsuka, Akio | Carson, Terrence 'T.C.' | Davis, Dane A. | DeMita, John | Di Maggio, John | Fernandez, Alex | Fletcher, Jack | Gomez, Rick | Kenny, Tom | LaMarr, Phil | McKenzie, Matt | Reeves, Keanu | Richardson, Kevin Michael | Saulsberry, Rodney
Directors: Chung, Peter
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Anthology of nine short anime (Japanese animation) films tied in to the 1999 blockbuster “The Matrix” and its sequels. “Final Flight of the Osiris”: The crew of the hovercraft Osiris attempt to warn their city of an imminent attack. “The Second Renaissance, Parts 1 & 2″: The story behind the war between man and the machines, how mankind scorched the sky, and the creation of the Matrix. “Kid’s Story”: A teenager is contacted by Neo, and manages to escape the Matrix. “Program”: Two warriors battle in a samurai training simulation when one decides to betray his crewmates and re-enter the Matrix. “World Record”: A champion sprinter manages to break free of the Matrix by sheer physical effort during a record attempt. “Beyond”: A young girl searching for her cat discovers a haunted house caused by a glitch in the system. “A Detective Story”: Private investigator Ash tracks a hacker named Trinity through the looking glass. “Matriculated”: A group of humans capture a machine scout and insert it into a ‘human matrix’.

Iron Man (2008)

Tuesday, September 9th, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Drama | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Downey Jr., Robert | Howard, Terrence | Bridges, Jeff | Paltrow, Gwyneth | Bibb, Leslie | Toub, Shaun | Tahir, Faran | Badreya, Sayed | Smitrovich, Bill | Gregg, Clark | Guinee, Tim | Lyman, Will | Khan, Marco | Foster, Kevin | Noel, Garret
Directors: Favreau, Jon
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Tony Stark is the complete playboy who also happens to be an engineering genius. While in Afghanistan demonstrating a new missile he’s captured and wounded. His captors want him to assemble a missile for them but instead he creates an armored suit and a means to prevent his death from the shrapnel left in his chest by the attack. He uses the armored suit to escape. Back in the U.S. he announces his company will cease making weapons and he begins work on an updated armored suit only to find that Obadiah Stane, his second in command at Stark industries has been selling Stark weapons to the insurgents. He uses his new suit to return to Afghanistan to destroy the arms and then to stop Shane from misusing his research.

Ghost in the Shell (1995)

Wednesday, June 4th, 2008
Genres: Action | Animation | Fantasy | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: Japan | UK
Actors: Tanaka, Atsuko | Ôtsuka, Akio | Ôki, Tamio | Kayumi, Iemasa | Yamadera, Kôichi | Genda, Tesshô | Barnes, Richard | Blum, Steven Jay | Bulen, Steve | Cansino, Richard | Carlton, Tom | Celik, George | Chiba, Shigeru | Davis, Stephen | Epcar, Richard
Directors: Oshii, Mamoru
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The year is 2029. The world has become intensively information oriented and humans are well-connected to the network. Crime has developed into a sophisticated stage by hacking into the interactive network. To prevent this, Section 9 is formed. These are cyborgs with incredible strengths and abilities that can access any network on Earth.

Bill & Ted’s Bogus Journey (1991)

Monday, May 19th, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Comedy | Fantasy | Sci-Fi
Countries: USA
Actors: Reeves, Keanu | Winter, Alex | Sadler, William | Ackland, Joss | Grier, Pam | Carlin, George | Stock-Poynton, Amy | Martin, Jim | Landon Jr., Hal | Azcuy, Annette | Trigger, Sarah | Ross, Chelcie | Mahal, Taj | Noble, Robert | Landon Sr., Hal
Directors: Hewitt, Peter
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For many years now, at Bill and Ted University of the future, the people of the world have been excellent to each other. But fed-up with Bill and Ted’s peaceful world and even more fed up with heavy metal, Chuck De Nomolos decides to do something about it. De Nomolos creates cyborg versions of Bill and Ted, who travel back to 1990 with orders to kill the human versions of Bill and Ted, win the Battle of the Bands, and pave the way for De Nomolos to take over the future. In 1990, Bill and Ted are sent to hell by the cyborgs. Cyborg Bill and cyborg Ted make time with the real Bill and Ted’s girlfriends Joanna and Elizabeth and prepare to take the human Bill and Ted’s place in the Battle of the Bands. With the help of their friend Rufus, the human Bill and Ted are forced to find a way out of hell, deal with the Grim Reaper, and talk to God himself, in their mission to get to the Battle of the Bands and stop the two cyborgs.

Short Circuit (1986)

Monday, April 28th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Family | Sci-Fi
Countries: USA
Actors: Guttenberg, Steve | Stevens, Fisher | Sheedy, Ally | Pendleton, Austin | Bailey, G. W. | Brian McNamara
Directors: Badham, John
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Number 5, one of a group of experimental military robots, undergoes a sudden transformation after being struck by lightning. He develops self-awareness, consciousness, and a fear of the reprogramming that awaits him back at the factory. With the help of a young woman, Number 5 tries to evade capture and convince his creator that he has truly become alive.

Return to Oz (1985)

Wednesday, March 26th, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Family | Fantasy | Mystery
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Balk, Fairuza | Williamson, Nicol | Jean Marsh | Laurie, Piper | Clark, Matt | Sundin, Michael | Rose, Timothy M. | Barrett, Sean | Wilson, Mak | Bryer, Denise | Henson, Brian | Larange, Stewart | Conway, Lyle | Norrington, Stephen | Case, Justin
Directors: Murch, Walter
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It has been six months since Dorothy has returned to Kansas from Oz and she still can not sleep. She has been going on about imaginary places and people so much that Aunt Em takes her to see a doctor. Dorothy promptly escapes from the mental hospital and wakes up in Oz where her favorite chichen can now talk. There she meets a whole new bunch of friends and they set off to rescue the Scarecrow from an evil Nome King who has found her Ruby Slippers and has used them to lay waste to the Emerald city and take over Oz.

Shoot ‘Em Up (2007)

Tuesday, March 25th, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Comedy | Crime | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Owen, Clive | Giamatti, Paul | Bellucci, Monica | McHattie, Stephen | Bryk, Greg | Pilon, Daniel | Mende-Gibson, Sidney | Mende-Gibson, Lucas | Yellowlees, Kaylyn | Pringle, Ramona | Richings, Julian | Munch, Tony | McCord, Scott | Pickett, Wiley M. | Hart, Stephen R.
Directors: Davis, Michael
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Late at night, in an unnamed U.S. city, a solitary man sits at a bus stop. A pregnant woman runs by, pursued by a man with a gun. With reluctance, the man at the bus stop rescues her and assists with the baby’s delivery, while additional pursuers fire at them, including the gang’s particularly nasty leader, an intuitive man named Hertz. Our hero, known only as Smith, determines to save the child and find out why Hertz wants the baby dead. At a local bordello, he tries to employ a lactating hooker to watch the child, but things quickly escalate, and this makeshift family is soon on the run. Heavy metal music calms the baby. Why? A laboratory, a gun factory, and a presidential campaign all figure in Smith’s search for the child’s ultimate safety.

American Pie Presents Band Camp (2005)

Thursday, March 20th, 2008
Genres: Comedy
Countries: USA
Actors: Levy, Eugene | Hilgenbrink, Tad | Kebbel, Arielle | Earles, Jason | Lightning, Crystle | Lee, Jun Hee | Barr, Matt | Owen, Chris | Mayhew, Lauren C. | Little, Angela | Veltri, Rachel | Allen, Ginger Lynn | Stack, Timothy | Howard, Russell | Alapont, Carla
Directors: Rash, Steve
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All the original characters have moved on, except there will be a cameo by Sherman. Stifler’s little brother Matt, wants to join his brother’s business (Stifler has hit it big producing Girls Gone Wild videos) and after everything Matt has heard from Jim’s bandgeek wife Michelle, he plans to go back to band camp and make a video of his own…. Bandies Gone Wild

Meet the Robinsons (2007)

Monday, March 17th, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Animation | Comedy | Family | Sci-Fi
Countries: USA
Actors: Angela Bassett | Hansen, Daniel | Fry, Jordan | Josten, Matthew | Ford, John H. H. | McGarry, Dara | Kenny, Tom | Metcalf, Laurie | Hall, Don | Butcher, Paul | Miller-Zarneke, Tracey | Singerman, Wesley | Flower, Jessie | Sandler, Ethan
Directors: Anderson, Stephen J.
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Meet the Robinsons is filled with extraordinarily inappropriate and insensitive messages about adoption that will be disturbing to many children. The basic story is about an adorable baby whose birthmother leaves him on the doorstep of an orphanage. Portrayed as loving, sweet, extremely smart and overly appealing, he spends the next 12 years of his life wanting a family and being turned down by one family after another - in all, 114 couples refuse to adopt him. One disturbing scene shows a prospective dad losing interest in adopting the child because the youngster is more interested in science than sports. When he accidentally splatters them with food from his science project, both prospective parents walk out in a huff , leaving one very sad and disappointed little boy. Since no one else wants him, the child invents a time machine that will take him back in time to find his birth mother. The “bad guy” in his time travel journey turns out to be his best childhood buddy who was once his orphanage roommate. Now an emotional wreck resulting from being left behind when the orphanage was closed and shut down, the once-cute orphan is now mean and devious. The story continues with numerous monsters attacking the child as he continues to search for his birth mother.