Blade Runner (1982)
The date is November 2019. The city is Los Angeles. Earth has undergone massive population explosions in the urban areas, the city landscape is a mish-mash of every culture, and almost everywhere you go...
Tagged: futuristic
Ready Player One (2018)
In the year 2045, orphaned teenage Columbus, Ohio resident Wade Watts (Sheridan, X-Men Apocalypse) lives, like seemingly everyone else around not working in the upper echelons of a corporation, in squalor (called ‘The Stacks”, which...
Mute (2018)
The Netflix film Mute is a passion project directed and co-written by Duncan Jones, who made a splash with Moon, then solidified his fans with Source Code, which is the primary interest for most people who seek this one out...
Blade Runner 2049 (2017)
An admirable and inspired attempt to further continue the story as presented in the highly influential 1982 classic, Blade Runner, sees modern visionary Denis Villenueve (Arrival, Enemy) supplant Ridley Scott (who executive produces) as director, further...
Allegiant (2016)
At this point in the Divergent series, the makers have decided that they have little chance of actually coming out of the shadow of the Hunger Games series to be thought of as anything more than a blatant...
Ex Machina (2015)
Esteemed screenwriter Alex Garland (Dredd, Sunshine) writes and directs (his first) this fascinating science fiction drama, which plays like a futuristic chamber piece about reality, fantasy, truth, manipulation, deception, humanity and lack thereof. To avoid...
Insurgent (2015)
The Divergent series is like that stick of chewing gum you popped into your mouth before a big meeting that you keep chewing on long, long, long after the flavor has gone. You want to spit...
Edge of Tomorrow (2014)
Tom Cruise in another big-budget science fiction vehicle that’s not easy to readily separate from one of his other recent releases (Oblivion, War of the Worlds, Minority Report), but don’t let its familiar premise or generic...
Star Trek Into Darkness (2013)
Star Trek Into Darkness is director J.J. Abrams’s (Super 8, Mission Impossible III) follow-up to his commercially and critically acclaimed reboot of the iconic science fiction series, Star Trek, and should largely please fans of the more...
Looper (2012)
Another intriguing entry by writer-director Rian Johnson, who follows up the critically acclaimed Brick and The Brothers Bloomwith what is perhaps his best effort yet. It’s a nifty idea that is actually backed up with an erudite...