Posts Tagged ‘astronaut’

Naqoyqatsi: Life as War (2002)

Friday, June 5th, 2009
Genres: Documentary | War
Countries: USA
Actors: Troy Aikman | The Beatles | Osama Bin Laden | Marlon Brando | Fidel Castro | Warren Christopher | Bill Clinton | Thomas A. Edison | Albert Einstein | Adolf Hitler | Elton John | Nikita Khrushchev | Martin Luther King | Henry Kissinger | Dalai Lama
Directors: Godfrey Reggio
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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.

The Day After Tomorrow (2004)

Friday, June 5th, 2009
Genres: Action | Adventure | Drama | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Dennis Quaid | Jake Gyllenhaal | Emmy Rossum | Dash Mihok | Jay O. Sanders | Sela Ward | Austin Nichols | Arjay Smith | Tamlyn Tomita | Sasha Roiz | Ian Holm | Nassim Sharara | Carl Alacchi | Kenneth Welsh | Michael A. Samah
Directors: Roland Emmerich
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This movie takes a big-budget, special-effects-filled look at what the world would look like if the greenhouse effect and global warming continued at such levels that they resulted in worldwide catastrophe and disaster, including multiple hurricanes, tornadoes, tidal waves, floods and the beginning of the next Ice Age. At the center of the story is a paleoclimatologist (a scientist who studies the ways weather patterns changed in the past), Professor Jack Hall (Quaid), who tries to save the world from the effects of global warming while also trying to get to his son, Sam (Gyllenhaal), who was in New York City as part of a scholastic competition, when the city was overwhelmed by the chilling beginnings of the new Ice Age. In addition to all of the other challenges Dr. Hall faces, he’s also going against the flow as humanity races south to warmer climes, and he’s nearly the only one going north…

Robinson Crusoe on Mars (1964)

Monday, June 1st, 2009
Genres: Sci-Fi
Countries: USA
Actors: Paul Mantee | Victor Lundin | Adam West | Barney
Directors: Byron Haskin
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Commander Kit Draper and Colonel Dan McReady are orbiting Mars in an exploritory surveyor. A malfunction forces them to eject with only Draper and a monkey named Mona surviving. Draper must learn to survive in this hostile environment fighting thirst, hunger and even hostile aliens if he expects to see home again.

Moon Zero Two (1969)

Friday, February 27th, 2009
Genres: Crime | Sci-Fi | Western
Countries: UK
Actors: James Olson | Catherine Schell | Warren Mitchell | Adrienne Corri | Ori Levy | Dudley Foster | Bernard Bresslaw | Neil McCallum | Joby Blanshard | Michael Ripper | Robert Tayman | Sam Kydd | Keith Bonnard | Leo Britt | Carol Cleveland
Directors: Roy Ward Baker
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A space salvage expert and his partner become involved with a group of criminals intent on hijacking a small asteroid made of sapphire and crashing it into the moon for later recovery. The only place that they can bring the asteroid down without drawing attention to themselves is a far side mining claim. But first they must dispose of the miner. Little known to them, however, is the fact that the miners sister has hired the same salvage team to help her locate her missing brother.

Escape from the Planet of the Apes (1971)

Thursday, February 26th, 2009
Genres: Action | Drama | Sci-Fi
Countries: USA
Actors: Roddy McDowall | Kim Hunter | Bradford Dillman | Natalie Trundy | Eric Braeden | William Windom | Sal Mineo | Albert Salmi | Jason Evers | John Randolph | Harry Lauter | M. Emmet Walsh | Roy Glenn | Peter Forster | Norman Burton
Directors: Don Taylor
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The third chapter of the Apes saga. Two intelligent simians from the future, Cornelius and Zira travel to present-day Earth. They become instant sensations, wined and dined and treated like celebrities — until a high-level plot forces them to run for their lives!

Beneath the Planet of the Apes (1970)

Thursday, February 26th, 2009
Genres: Action | Drama | Sci-Fi
Countries: USA
Actors: James Franciscus | Kim Hunter | Maurice Evans | Linda Harrison | Paul Richards | Victor Buono | James Gregory | Jeff Corey | Natalie Trundy | Thomas Gomez | David Watson | Don Pedro Colley | Tod Andrews | Gregory Sierra | Eldon Burke
Directors: Ted Post
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An astronaut, named Brent, is sent on a mission to find the missing astronaut crew from the first film, and he also lands on the planet of the apes where he stumbles upon an underground city where the last humans have hold up in hiding from the dreaded ape army now out to exterminate mankind.

Planet of the Apes (1968)

Thursday, February 26th, 2009
Genres: Action | Adventure | Drama | Mystery | Romance | Sci-Fi
Countries: USA
Actors: Mark Wahlberg | Tim Roth | Helena Bonham Carter | Michael Clarke Duncan | Paul Giamatti | Estella Warren | Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa | David Warner | Kris Kristofferson | Erick Avari | Lucas Elliott | Evan Parke | Glenn Shadix | Freda Foh Shen | Chris Ellis
Directors: Tim Burton
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After having their ship crash on a mysterious planet, two US astronauts wander across the desert plain. Thinking they are alone, the surprise comes when life forms appear, not just as mute human but as apes. Walking, talking apes. The apes see themselves as the original beings on the planet and do anything to keep all humans locked up.

2010 (1984)

Thursday, August 28th, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Mystery | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Roy Scheider | John Lithgow | Helen Mirren | Bob Balaban | Keir Dullea | Douglas Rain | Madolyn Smith Osborne | Dana Elcar | Taliesin Jaffe | James McEachin | Mary Jo Deschanel | Elya Baskin | Saveli Kramarov | Oleg Rudnik | Natasha Shneider
Directors: Peter Hyams
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In the year 2001, Dave Bowman was taken by the Jupiter monolith and transformed into a powerful being. Now, in the year 2010, Dr. Heywood Floyd, the man held responsible for Discovery’s failure, is going to Jupiter. He and his crewmates must reactivate the psychotic HAL-9000 computer, so they may learn what happened, and they must find out the meaning of Dave Bowman’s last transmission… “My God, it’s full of stars…”

2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)

Thursday, August 28th, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Sci-Fi
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Keir Dullea | Gary Lockwood | William Sylvester | Daniel Richter | Leonard Rossiter | Margaret Tyzack | Robert Beatty | Sean Sullivan | Douglas Rain | Frank Miller | Bill Weston | Ed Bishop | Glenn Beck | Alan Gifford | Ann Gillis
Directors: Stanley Kubrick
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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.

Mission to Mars (2000)

Wednesday, July 16th, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Drama | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Gary Sinise | Tim Robbins | Don Cheadle | Jerry O'Connell | Peter Outerbridge | Kavan Smith | Robert Bailey Jr. | Jeffrey Ballard | Anson Woods | Sugith Varughese | Story Musgrave | Mina E. Mina | Carlo Rota | Dmitry Chepovetsky | McCanna Anthony Sinise
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Commander Luke Graham is selected to lead the first manned mission to Mars. Upon setting foot on the red planet, the team discovers an ancient, domelike structure which appears to be a beacon. The dome destroys the team and leaves Luc injured. The recently widowed Jim McConnell leads the rescue mission. When they arrive, they find Lke surprisingly alive, and he has spent the time alone learning the secrets of the mysterious construct. The question now becomes: do they enter the dome and answer humanity’s oldest question, perhaps risking their lives in doing so, or return to Earth with what they do know and return in force with equipment and supplies?