Tag: sci-fi
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Sci-Fi Weekend: Journey to Mars!
Curiosity is scheduled to land on Mars, August 6th. Juan Pablo Zaramello, an Argentine filmmaker, produced 15 minute sci-fi animation in 2005, “Viaje a Marte.”
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Retro Sci-Fi Weekend: ‘Invaders From Mars’
A film gem, “Invaders From Mars,” is a 1953 sci-fi flick, where young boy David MacLean, played by Jimmy Hunt, is the star and hero! David, already a keen astronomer, is awakened one night by a flying saucer, viewed outside his bedroom window as it descends just over a hill in nearby sandpits. The young…
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Retro Sci-Fi Weekend: Science Fiction Theatre
“Time Is Just A Place” stars Don Defore, and Marie Windsor, who play a young couple who discover”… their neighbors, who possess a sonic broom and many other technologically advanced household items, are fugitives from the future who have fled to the past to escape an oppressive government,” according to Wikipedia.
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Sci-Fi Weekend Matinee: Earth vs. the Flyer Saucers
It’s the weekend and time to escape with the 1956 science fiction classic, Earth vs. the Flying Saucers. The film directed by Fred F. Sears, but overshadowed by the special effects wizardry of legendary Ray Harryhausen, which still entertains over fifty years later.
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Star Wreck: In The Pirkinning
A highly entertaining low budget movie, Star Wreck: In the Pirkinning, is a surprise! Viewer expectations for a movie that parodies another are frankly low. SW succeeds, however, with cheap humor, a plot and computer graphics. You get the idea if you think of a Finnish Space Balls.
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Retro Fifties Sci-Fi Weekend: ‘The Thing From Another World’
“The Thing” is Howard Hawke’s effort to capitalize on alien invasion craze of early fifties. A brief synopsis supplied by Wikipedia offers “…a 1951 science fiction film based on the 1938 novella “Who Goes There?” by John W. Campbell (writing under the pseudonym of “Don A. Stuart”). It tells the story of an Air Force…
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‘Iron Sky’ CGI Scenes and Special Effects Rendering
‘Iron Sky’ will soon be in the states. You may be a sci-fi special effects aficionado and the dark style of Fourth Reich Space Nazis on the attack may hold strong appeal.
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Retro Sci-Fi Audio Weekend: City At World’s End
It’s time to kick back and enjoy a .mp3 audio version of a 1950s science fiction classic, “City At World’s End,” by Edmond Hamilton, a pioneer of comics and sci-fi, as narrated by Mark Nelson!
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Primer: Time Travel Sci-Fi Cult Classic
Primer is a low budget science fiction film that won the grand jury prize at the Sundance Film Festival in 2004. A film produced and directed by Shane Carruth, who is also a main character with David Sullivan, in a highly-cerebral time travel drama filled with existential and moral issues.
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12/29 #defcon: ç¥∫´®ßπåç´∑å® – 404 file or directory not found
#2012 watch: the countdown begins* how the world might end in 2012 (or maybe later)* top 10 most bizarre tech stories of 2011* ten plotlines you’ll find in science fiction – over & over again* twin probes to orbit moon, study gravity field* sen. ron wyden leaps into middle of internet piracy fight* army ‘red…
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1927 metropolis: silent sci-fi movie ahead of its time
The most expensive silent movie ever made, Metropolis, a dystopia of class struggle still impresses with its special effects. History of the film is equally interesting. The original Metropolis had a running time of 153 minutes, but was cut shortly after premiere with the lost footage only having been recently recovered. A Wikipedia entry informs,…
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fifties finest sci-fi movie doubleheader
You think you have problems? Take in fifties finest sci-fi doubleheader and forget your own worries! Ray Harryhausen supplies special effects in 1956 film, “Earth vs the Flying Saucers,” starring Hugh Marlowe. Humans misunderstand and fire upon aliens, who are monitoring Project Skyhook, which leads to retaliation and full scale invasion! Wouldn’t an alien invasion…
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#NavigatingNetflix: Episode 2: ‘Idiocracy’
In this episode of Navigating Netflix, the team looks at the brilliant comedic satire “Idiocracy” and examine its plot of a future humanity that has been dumbed down to the point of near-uselessness.
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7/7 defcon: the atlantis event & awesome announcements
atlantis launch will be iconic event, the last of its kind* full range of opinions & emotions surrounds last shuttle flight* video: space shuttle atlantis’ big-screen launch events & tributes* nasa’s dramatic rescue plan in case of shuttle emergency* plans to strip mine the moon may soon be more than just sci-fi* security grifters partner-up…
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10 sci-fi predictions that came true
Truth is stranger than fiction,10 Sc-Fi Predictions That Came True only supports the notion. Moon Landing predicted by Jules Verne more than 100 years before the moonwalk in his novel, “From the Earth to the Moon.” The InnovationsNewsDaily article observes, “according to Jules Verne’s story…, the first mission to the moon was launched in December…