Starring: Keanu Reeves, Laurence Fishburne, Carrie-Ann Moss, Hugo Weaving
Directed by: The Wachowski brothers
Plot: A computer hacker learns from mysterious rebels about the true nature of his reality and his role in the war against the controllers of it.
But is it any good?
At the end of the last millenium, posters began springing up, and billboards, asking: […]
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Starring: Brigitte Helm, Alfred Abel, Gustav Fröhlich
Directed by: Fritz Lang
Plot: It is the future, and humans are divided into two groups: the thinkers, who make plans (but don’t know how anything works), and the workers, who achieve goals (but don’t have the vision). Completely separate, neither group is complete, but together they make a […]
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Starring: A few actors, a few planets
Directed by: Stanley Kubrick
Plot: A monkey throws a bone into the air. Some music goes dum-dum-dum-dum. Some planets spin. A computer turns nasty. A man dies in a room. Don’t ask questions.
But is it any good?
I first watched A Space Odyssey pre-2001, a whole millenium ago in 1999. […]
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Starring: Sigourney Weaver, Bill Paxton, Paul Reiser, Carrie Henn
Directed by: James Cameron (he of the big ship)
Plot: The only survivor of the Nostromo, Ellen Ripley is discovered in deep sleep over half a century later by a salvage ship. When she is taken back to Earth, she learns that a human colony was founded […]
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Starring: Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer, Darryl Hannah
Directed by: Ridley Scott (Alien, Gladiator, Thelma and Louise, Black Hawk Down…)
Plot: In a cyberpunk vision of the future, man has developed the technology to create Replicants, human clones used to serve in the colonies outside Earth but with fixed lifespans. In Los Angeles, 2019, Rick Deckard is […]
