Posts Tagged ‘technology’

Naqoyqatsi: Life as War (2002)

Saturday, December 13th, 2008
Genres: Documentary | War
Countries: USA
Actors: Aikman, Troy | Beatles, The | Bin Laden, Osama | Brando, Marlon | Castro, Fidel | Christopher, Warren | Clinton, Bill | Edison, Thomas A. | Einstein, Albert | Hitler, Adolf | John, Elton | Khrushchev, Nikita | King, Martin Luther | Kissinger, Henry | Lama, Dalai
Directors: Reggio, Godfrey
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In this cinematic concert, mesmerizing images are plucked from everyday reality, then visually altered with state-of-the-art digital techniques. The result is a chronicle of the shift from a world organized by the principles of nature to one dominated by technology, the synthetic and the virtual. Extremes of intimacy and spectacle, tragedy and hope fuse in a tidal wave of visuals and music, giving rise to a unique, artistic experience that reflects the vision of a brave new globalized world.

Runaway (1984)

Wednesday, November 26th, 2008
Genres: Crime | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Selleck, Tom | Rhodes, Cynthia | Simmons, Gene | Alley, Kirstie | Shaw, Stan | Bailey, G.W. | Cramer, Joey | Mulkey, Chris | Martin, Anne-Marie | Chan, Michael Paul | Norment, Elizabeth | Teasdale, Carol | Davies, Jackson | Batten, Paul | Chula, Babs
Directors: Crichton, Michael
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A police officer specializes in runaway robots in the near future. When a robot becomes homicidal, he begins to unravel a mastermind’s plot to create killer robot weapons, and then the policeman becomes a target himself.

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.

2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)

Thursday, August 28th, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Sci-Fi
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Dullea, Keir | Lockwood, Gary | Sylvester, William | Richter, Daniel | Rossiter, Leonard | Tyzack, Margaret | Beatty, Robert | Sullivan, Sean | Rain, Douglas | Miller, Frank | Weston, Bill | Bishop, Ed | Beck, Glenn | Gifford, Alan | Gillis, Ann
Directors: Kubrick, Stanley
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2001 is a story of evolution. Sometime in the distant past someone or something nudged evolution by placing a monolith here on earth (presumably elsewhere throughout the universe as well) Evolution then enabled man to reach the moon’s surface where he finds yet another monolith, one which signals the monolith-placers that we have evolved that far. Now a race begins between computers (HAL) and man (Bowman) to reach the monolith-placers, the winner will achieve the next step in evolution, whatever that may be.

THX 1138 (1971)

Wednesday, August 20th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Sci-Fi
Countries: USA
Actors: Duvall, Robert | Pleasence, Donald | Colley, Don Pedro | Wolfe, Ian | Efron, Marshall | Haig, Sid | Pearce, John | Marsh, Gary Alan | Seaton, John | Stillman, Eugene I. | Walsh, Jack | Lawhead, Mark | Feero, Robert | Weissmuller Jr., Johnny | Wheaton, James
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The human race has been relocated to a underground city located beneath the Earth’s surface. In the underground city, the population are entertained by holographic TV which broadcasts sex and violence and robotic police force enforces the law. In the underground city, society controls all life, all citizens are drugged to control their emotions and their behavior and sex is a crime. Factory worker THX-1138 stops taking the drugs and he breaks the law when he finds himself falling in love with his room-mate LUH 3417 and is imprisoned when LUH 3417 is pregnant. Escaping from jail with illegal programmer SEN 5241 and a hologram named SRT, THX 1138 goes in search of LUH 3417 and escape to the surface, whilst being pursued by robotic policemen.

Weird Science (1985)

Thursday, July 10th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Fantasy | Romance | Sci-Fi
Countries: USA
Actors: Hall, Anthony Michael | Mitchell-Smith, Ilan | Paxton, Bill | Downey Jr., Robert | Rusler, Robert | Wells, Vernon | Leach, Britt | Berryman, Michael | Barry, Ivor | Kapelos, John | Scott, Fred D. | Townsend Jr., Vince | Williams, Chino 'Fats' | Langham, Wallace | Timko, Johnny
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Two unpopular teenagers, Gary and Wyatt, fail at all attempts to be accepted by their peers. Thier desperation to be liked leads them to “create” a woman via their computer. Their living and breathing creation is a gorgeous woman, Lisa, who’s purpose is to boost their confidence level by putting them into situations which require Gary and Wyatt to act like men. On their road to become accepted they encounter many hilarious obstacles which gives the movie an overall sense of silliness.

Brazil (1985)

Thursday, June 5th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Fantasy | Sci-Fi
Countries: UK
Actors: Pryce, Jonathan | De Niro, Robert | Helmond, Katherine | Holm, Ian | Hoskins, Bob | Palin, Michael | Richardson, Ian | Vaughan, Peter | Greist, Kim | Broadbent, Jim | Hicks, Barbara | McKeown, Charles | O'Connor, Derrick | Pogson, Kathryn | Pringle, Bryan
Directors: Gilliam, Terry
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Sam Lowry is a harried technocrat in a futuristic society that is needlessly convoluted and inefficient. He dreams of a life where he can fly away from technology and overpowering bureaucracy, and spend eternity with the woman of his dreams. While trying to rectify the wrongful arrest of one Harry Buttle, Lowry meets the woman he is always chasing in his dreams, Jill Layton. Meanwhile, the bureaucracy has fingered him responsible for a rash of terrorist bombings, and both Sam and Jill’s lives are put in danger.

I, Robot (2004)

Wednesday, September 19th, 2007
Genres: Action | Mystery | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Smith, Will | Moynahan, Bridget | Tudyk, Alan | Cromwell, James | Greenwood, Bruce | Ricard, Adrian | McBride, Chi | Wasserman, Jerry | Hogan, Fiona | Shinkoda, Peter | Chen, Terry | Haysom, David | Heindl, Scott | Wilkins, Sharon | March, Craig
Directors: Proyas, Alex
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Set in a future Earth (2035 A.D.) where robots are common assistants and workers for their human owners, this is the story of “robotophobic” Chicago Police Detective Del Spooner’s (Smith) investigation into the murder of Dr. Alfred Lanning (James Cromwell), who works at U.S. Robotics, in which a robot, Sonny (Tudyk), appears to be implicated, even though that would mean the robot had violated the Three Laws of Robotics, which is apparently impossible. It seems impossible because.. if robots can break those laws, there’s nothing to stop them from taking over the world, as humans have grown to become completely dependent upon their robots. Or maybe… they already have? Aiding Spooner in his investigation is a psychologist, Dr. Susan Calvin (Moynahan), who specializes in the psyches of robots.

Pulse (2006)

Tuesday, May 8th, 2007
Genres: Horror | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Bell, Kristen | Hanyok, Tate | Ian Somerhalder | Milian, Christina | Gonzalez, Rick | Lindhome, Riki | Tucker, Jonathan | Tepe, Amanda | Levine, Samm | Talley, Steve | Gatt, Joseph | Cummins, Corryn
Directors: Sonzero, Jim
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Imagine our wireless technologies made a connection to a world beyond our own. Imagine that world used that technology as a doorway into ours. Now, imagine the connection we made can’t be shut down. When you turn on your cell phone or log on to your e-mail, they’ll get in, you’ll be infected and they’ll be able to take from you what they don’t have anymore — life.

Entrapment (1999)

Tuesday, May 8th, 2007
Genres: Comedy | Crime | Romance | Thriller
Countries: Germany | UK | USA
Actors: Connery, Sean | Zeta-Jones, Catherine | Rhames, Ving | Patton, Will | Chaykin, Maury | McNally, Kevin | O'Neill, Terry | Sharma, Madhav | Yip, David | Potter, Tim | Meyers, Eric | Swartz, Aaron | Marsh, William | Xu, Tony | Saxon, Rolf
Directors: Amiel, Jon
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Following the theft of a highly-secured piece of artwork, an agent convinces her insurance agency employers to allow her to wriggle into the company of an aging but active master thief. Connery’s burglar takes her on suspiciously and demands rigorous training before their first job together—stealing a highly-valued mask from a chichi party. Their deepening attraction and distrust could tear apart their partnership but the promise of a bigger prize (some eight billion odd dollars) by Zeta-Jones keeps the game interesting. Only, who’s playing with whom?