Category Archives: sci-fi

Movie review: Ready Player One directed by Steven Spielberg

Posted on January 25, 2019 by portiabridget

Product info: Based on Ernest Cline’s sci-fi novel, READY PLAYER ONE takes place in a dismal 2045, where most people live in utter squalor. As technology is booming, they choose to spend most of their time online in a virtual … Continue reading →

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Movie review: Deadpool (2016) directed by Tim Miller

Posted on September 14, 2018 by portiabridget

Product info: Wade Wilson (Ryan Reynolds) is a former Special Forces operative who now works as a mercenary. His world comes crashing down when he finds out he has a cancer. His only hope is an evil scientist Ajax (Ed … Continue reading →

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Movie review: Anon (2018) directed by Andrew Niccol

Posted on August 31, 2018 by portiabridget

Product info: An unspecified English-speaking country in an unspecified future. A police detective called Sal Frieland (Clive Owen) has to find a serial murderer who is also an exceptionally good hacker and, most probably, a woman. She (Amanda Seyfried) can … Continue reading →

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Movie review: Alien: Covenant (2017) directed by Ridley Scott

Posted on February 16, 2018 by portiabridget

Product info: A manned spaceship is flying toward an unknown planet with a mission to colonize it when they intercept an echo of a message sent by humans. The captain decides to land on a far closer planet which has … Continue reading →

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Movie review: Priest (2011) directed by Scott Steward

Posted on October 20, 2017 by portiabridget

Product info: This post-apocalyptic sci-fi thriller is set in an alternate world, ravaged by centuries of war between men and vampires. Men won or so they are said by Church officials. The story revolves around a legendary Warrior Priest (Paul … Continue reading →

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Movie review: Magellan (2017) directed by Rob York

Posted on August 18, 2017 by portiabridget

Product info: After NASA picks up a trio of mysterious signals from within our own solar system, astronaut Roger Nelson (Brandon Ray Olive) is dispatched on a multi-year solo mission aboard the Magellan spacecraft to investigate the sources. My impressions: … Continue reading →

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Movie review: Splice (2009) directed by Vincenzo Natali

Posted on July 21, 2017 by portiabridget

Product info: Geneticists Clive Nicoli (Adrien Brody) and Elsa Kast (Sarah Polley) are young, successful scientists who specialize in creating hybrids of living species. When they propose the use of human DNA, their pharmaceutical company bosses forbid it, forcing them … Continue reading →

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Movie review: Idiocracy (2006) directed by Mike Judge

Posted on June 13, 2017 by portiabridget

Product info: n 2005, average in every way private Joe Bowers (Luke Wilson) who works as an Army librarian is selected to take part in a secret military experiment. They want to put him in hibernation for a year along … Continue reading →

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Movie review: Equilibrium (2002) directed by Kurt Wimmer

Posted on March 31, 2017 by portiabridget

Product info: Cast in Libria, a dystopian country of the future which outlawed emotions of any kind, the film follows John Preston (Christian Bale), an upper echelon  enforcement officer called a Grammaton Cleric. Citizens have to take daily injections of … Continue reading →

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Movie review: Interstellar (2014) directed by Christopher Nolan

Posted on March 24, 2017 by portiabridget

Product info (from Wikipedia): Sometime in the 21st century, a series of crop blights on Earth threatens humanity’s survival. Joseph Cooper (Mathew McConaughey), a widowed former NASA pilot, runs a farm with his father-in-law, son Tom (Casey Affleck), and daughter … Continue reading →

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