Posts Tagged ‘technology’

Naqoyqatsi: Life as War (2002)

Saturday, November 29th, 2008
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.

Runaway (1984)

Wednesday, November 26th, 2008
Genres: Crime | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: USA
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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.

Future by Design (2006)

Wednesday, October 29th, 2008
Genres: Documentary
Countries: USA
Actors: Jacque Fresco | Roxanne Meadows | Larry King
Directors: William Gazecki
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Future by Design shares the life and far-reaching vision of Jacque Fresco, considered by many to be a modern day Da Vinci. Peer to Einstein and Buckminster Fuller, Jacque is a self-taught futurist who describes himself most often as a “generalist” or multi-disciplinarian — a student of many inter-related fields. He is a prolific inventor, having spent his entire life (he is now 90 years old) conceiving of and devising inventions on various scales which entail the use of innovative technology. As a futurist, Jacque is not only a conceptualist and a theoretician, but he is also an engineer and a designer.

Iron Man (2008)

Tuesday, September 9th, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Drama | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Robert Downey Jr. | Terrence Howard | Jeff Bridges | Gwyneth Paltrow | Leslie Bibb | Shaun Toub | Faran Tahir | Sayed Badreya | Bill Smitrovich | Clark Gregg | Tim Guinee | Will Lyman | Marco Khan | Kevin Foster | Garret Noel
Directors: Jon Favreau
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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: 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.

THX 1138 (1971)

Wednesday, August 20th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Sci-Fi
Countries: USA
Actors: Robert Duvall | Donald Pleasence | Don Pedro Colley | Ian Wolfe | Marshall Efron | Sid Haig | John Pearce | Gary Alan Marsh | John Seaton | Eugene I. Stillman | Jack Walsh | Mark Lawhead | Robert Feero | Johnny Weissmuller Jr. | James Wheaton
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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: Anthony Michael Hall | Ilan Mitchell-Smith | Bill Paxton | Robert Downey Jr. | Robert Rusler | Vernon Wells | Britt Leach | Michael Berryman | Ivor Barry | John Kapelos | Fred D. Scott | Vince Townsend Jr. | Chino 'Fats' Williams | Wallace Langham | Johnny Timko
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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.

I, Robot (2004)

Wednesday, September 19th, 2007
Genres: Action | Mystery | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Will Smith | Bridget Moynahan | Alan Tudyk | James Cromwell | Bruce Greenwood | Adrian Ricard | Chi McBride | Jerry Wasserman | Fiona Hogan | Peter Shinkoda | Terry Chen | David Haysom | Scott Heindl | Sharon Wilkins | Craig March
Directors: Alex Proyas
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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: Kristen Bell | Tate Hanyok | Ian Somerhalder | Christina Milian | Rick Gonzalez | Riki Lindhome | Jonathan Tucker | Amanda Tepe | Samm Levine | Steve Talley | Joseph Gatt | Corryn Cummins
Directors: Jim Sonzero
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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: Sean Connery | Catherine Zeta-Jones | Ving Rhames | Will Patton | Maury Chaykin | Kevin McNally | Terry O'Neill | Madhav Sharma | David Yip | Tim Potter | Eric Meyers | Aaron Swartz | William Marsh | Tony Xu | Rolf Saxon
Directors: Jon Amiel
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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?