Scifi of the Day

Snowpiercer

is set in a future where, after a failed experiment to stop global warming, an Ice Age kills off all life on the planet except for the inhabitants of the Snowpiercer, a train that travels around the globe and is powered by a sacred perpetual-motion engine. A class system evolves on the train but a revolution brews.

Quote of the Day

Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right. 

Isaac Asimov

Scifi of the Day

“Orphan Black,” BBC America

Sarah (Tatiana Maslany, The Vow, Eastern Promises, Violet & Daisy) is an orphan who’s grown up on the streets, fending for herself. After she witnesses the suicide of a woman who looks just like her, Sarah assumes the woman’s identity, and discovers she and the woman are clones. And there are more of them/her! Co-stars Kevin Hanchard (Four Brothers, Hendrix) and Dylan Bruce (“The Bay,” Unstoppable) and premieres March 30th.

Doctor Sleep

In September we get Doctor Sleep by Stephen King (Hodder & Stoughton).

Danny Torrance was the young boy with psychic abilities at the centre of The Shining. Now, in this much-heralded sequel, he’s a middle-aged drifter using his “shining” power to comfort the dying – until a tribe of child-torturing paranormals and a young girl in peril reawaken his demons.


 

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Quote of the Dayx2

“My list of top ten movies this year is just Looper eleven times.” -Bryan Lee O’Malley

 

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Quote of the Day

“Maybe I’ll make people stand on their tippy-toes just to change it up a little. ‘Stand on your tippy-toes before Zod.’”

-Man Of Steel‘s Michael Shannon



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Movie to See

Star Trek Into Darkness

The Star Trek reboot continues May 17th with a J.J. Abrams directed take on a story that looks suspiciously like Wrath of Khan. British sensation Benedict Cumberbatch as the villain John Harrison. But is it Khan or Mitchell?

Can't wait either way!

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Movie to See

World War Z

 

Release Date: June 21

 

Zombies, zombies, zombies ...ZOMBIES!

 

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Oblivion

Release Date: April 12

 

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Quote of the Day

Garak: It’s vile

Quark: I know. It’s so bubbly and cloying and happy.

Garak: Just like the Federation.

Quark: But you know what’s really frightening? If you drink enough of it, you start to like it.

Garak: It’s insidious.

Quark: Just like the Federation.

-DS9, "The Way of the Warrior"

 

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Brazil (1985)

Terry Gilliam’s masterpiece of absurdist dystopia, Brazil is about a lowly office worker in a future city riddled by terrorists and ruled by bureaucrats. He just wants to spend his days dreaming about being a ninja who rescues a damsel in distress — until he meets the damsel in real life, discovers she’s a subversive truck driver, and is plunged into a nightmare of love and political repression. Full of the bizarre imagery that made Gilliam famous during his Monty Python animator days, Brazil will warp your mind and break your heart.

 

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Quote of the Day

“You wanted to frighten us. We’re frightened. You wanted to show us that we were inadequate. For the moment, I grant that. You wanted me to say, ‘I need you’? I need you!” (Picard to Q)

 

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The Purge

Movie synopsis

If on one night every year, you could commit any crime without facing consequences, what would you do? In The Purge, a speculative thriller that follows one family over the course of a single night, four people will be tested to see how far they will go to protect themselves when the vicious outside world breaks into their home. In an America wracked by crime and overcrowded prisons, the government has sanctioned an annual 12-hour period in which any and all criminal activity-including murder-becomes legal. The police can’t be called. Hospitals suspend help. It’s one night when the citizenry regulates itself without thought of punishment.

On this night plagued by violence and an epidemic of crime, one family wrestles with the decision of who they will become when a stranger comes knocking. When an intruder breaks into James Sandin’s (Ethan Hawke) gated community during the yearly lockdown, he begins a sequence of events that threatens to tear a family apart. Now, it is up to James, his wife, Mary (Lena Headey), and their kids to make it through the night without turning into the monsters from whom they hide. Directed by James DeMonaco (writer of Assault on Precinct 13 and The Negotiator).

 

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The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)

Released just a few years after the atomic bombs at Hiroshima and Nagasaki shocked the world, this was a rare anti-war movie at a time when the Cold War was quickly dividing the world’s nations. Full of innovative design, an alien who actually speaks an alien tongue instead of English, and a complicated message about geopolitics, The Day the Earth Stood Still was a movie that pushed its audience to think of themselves as humans rather than Americans.

 

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Quote of the Day

“Let’s make sure history never forgets the name, Enterprise!” -Picard

 

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Scifi of the Day

Looper (2012)

Rian Johnson’s gritty movie about gangsters who use time travel to commit perfect assassinations is both an incredible science fiction story and an unflinching look at how difficult it is to break cycles of violence — in families as well as societies. The final twist will leave you feeling broken inside. And you’ll like it.

 

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District 9 (2009)

Not since Brother from Another Planet has a science fiction movie dealt so openly and effectively with the problems that humans create by dividing themselves up along lines of race and class. When a giant spaceship parks over Johannesburg, explorers are dismayed to find that it’s full of thousands of diseased, helpless aliens — who are now under the care of the South African government. Wikus is a bureaucrat put in charge of relocating the “prawn” from their shantytown to a new refugee camp, and that’s when trouble begins. A dark satire with incredible effects and a gut-punching story, District 9 manages the seemingly-impossible: it’s a political allegory that feels like an action movie.

 

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Quote of the Day

“I want you to meet Jonathan Swift, the author of that evil political book, Guilliver’s Travels! And this other fellow is Charles Darwin, and this one is Schopenhauer, and this one is Einstein, and this one here at my elbow is Mr. Albert Schweitzer, a very kind philosopher indeed. Here we all are, Montag. Aristophanes and Mahatma Ghandi and Gautama Buddha and Confucius and Thomas Love Peacock and Thomas Jefferson and Mr. Lincoln, if you please. We are also Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.”

-Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

 

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X-Men: Days of Future Past

Right now it looks like Hugh Jackman, Ian McKellen, Patrick Stewart, Jennifer Lawrence, Michael Fassbender, James McAvoy and Nicholas Hault will all be returning for the sequel.

The film is based on 1981 issue of Uncanny X-Men which came from writer Chris Claremont and artists John Byrne and Terry Austin. The story is set in an alternate future where surviving mutants have been thrown in concentration camps, Sentinels are patrolling America, and most of the X-Men have been hunted down and killed. The present day X-Men are forced to stop a key event from unfolding in order to keep that future from occurring.

The movie will be released in theaters on July 18th, 2014.

 

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Pacific Rim trailer

When legions of monstrous creatures, known as Kaiju, started rising from the sea, a war began that would take millions of lives and consume humanity's resources for years on end.  To combat the giant Kaiju, a special type of weapon was devised: massive robots, called Jaegers, which are controlled simultaneously by two pilots whose minds are locked in a neural bridge.  But even the Jaegers are proving nearly defenseless in the face of the relentless Kaiju.  On the verge of defeat, the forces defending mankind have no choice but to turn to two unlikely heroes--a washed up former pilot (Charlie Hunnam) and an untested trainee (Rinko Kikuchi)--who are teamed to drive a legendary but seemingly obsolete Jaeger from the past.  Together, they stand as mankind's last hope against the mounting apocalypse.

Go here for the trailer