Posts Tagged ‘technology’

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 Transformers: The Movie (1986)

Wednesday, June 3rd, 2009
Genres: Action | Adventure | Animation | Family | Sci-Fi
Countries: Japan | USA
Actors: Norman Alden | Jack Angel | Michael Bell | Gregg Berger | Susan Blu | Arthur Burghardt | Corey Burton | Roger C. Carmel
Directors: Nelson Shin
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It is the year 2005. The war between The Autobots and Decepticons has escalated all the way to Cybertron, which the Decepticons have reclaimed. The Autobots, without Optimus Prime after a conflict on Earth takes his life, must now face a destiny they know nothing of. Megatron and a group of forsaken Decepticons have been reformed by the ultimate transformer, a planet consuming demon known as Unicron into even deadlier warriors. Now Galvatron, Scourge and Cyclonus must destroy The Autobot Matrix of Leadership for Unicron’s glory or suffer the horrific destruction of Cybertron. However, Optimus Prime has decreed that an Autobot will rise from his rank and use the power of The Matrix to light the darkest hour of the Autobots. With Hot Rod facing responsibility for Prime’s death, he feels he may be able to use the power of the Matrix to turn the tide of the Cybertronian Wars and stop Unicron. Until all are one, the future of the Autobots and Decepticons is uncertain.

Demon Seed (1977)

Friday, March 13th, 2009
Genres: Horror | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Julie Christie | Fritz Weaver | Gerrit Graham | Berry Kroeger | Lisa Lu | Larry J. Blake | John O'Leary | Alfred Dennis | Davis Roberts | Patricia Wilson | E. Hampton Beagle | Michael Glass | Barbarao | Dana Laurita | Monica MacLean
Directors: Donald Cammell
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Scientist Alex Harris, doing research on artificial intelligence, is working on a special kind of computer. This computer grows more and more powerful and eventually rapes the scientist’s wife, Susan Harris.

The Conversation (1974)

Sunday, January 11th, 2009
Genres: Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Gene Hackman | John Cazale | Allen Garfield | Frederic Forrest | Cindy Williams | Michael Higgins | Elizabeth MacRae | Teri Garr | Harrison Ford | Mark Wheeler | Robert Shields | Phoebe Alexander | Ramon Bieri | Gian-Carlo Coppola | Robert Duvall
Directors: Francis Ford Coppola
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A paranoid and personally-secretive surveillance expert has a crisis of conscience when he suspects that a couple he is spying on will be murdered.

Iron Man (2008)

Monday, December 1st, 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.

Runaway (1984)

Wednesday, November 26th, 2008
Genres: Crime | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Tom Selleck | Cynthia Rhodes | Gene Simmons | Kirstie Alley | Stan Shaw | G.W. Bailey | Joey Cramer | Chris Mulkey | Anne-Marie Martin | Michael Paul Chan | Elizabeth Norment | Carol Teasdale | Jackson Davies | Paul Batten | Babs Chula
Directors: Michael Crichton
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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.

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.