Chappie, a 2015 film directed by Neill Blomkamp and co-written with Terri Tatchell, was released in 2015. Blomkamp sets the film in a futuristic Johannesburg, South Africa, where he combines emotional elements with advanced technology. The film focuses on the issues of identity, learning, family, and artificial intelligence. Plot Summary In this futuristic setting, Johannesburg […]
Passengers is a 2016 film blending science fiction and romance. It deals with interstellar travel and human emotions set in the future, highlighting the issues of human loneliness and social relations, as well as the motive of enduring for one’s ethics set in hope. Directed by Morten Tyldum and written by Jon Spaihts, the film
Flatliners is a modern science fiction drama that revolves around medical students trying to understand life after death. It is part of a much larger genre that focuses on ambition, and guilt, and explores the idea of life after death, but it also delves deeper beyond the mere superficial plot of a typical thriller. Inspired
During the course of the siblings’ exploration, Phoebe learns to her amazement that her grandfather was Egon Spengler, one of the original Ghostbusters. She discovers phantom-hunting gear, enigmatic blueprints, and other relics that establish a direct connection to the ghostbusters. She, along with her new classmate Podcast, who records everything and brims with excitement, and
Synopsis The central character in the British science fiction drama, ‘iBoy’, is a teenager called Tom Harvey who is described as being quite intelligent, although withdrawn and introverted. Tom, who is a highschool student living in the suburbs of London, is a very calm and quite, indeed very much a non-confrontational person, and prefers to
Synopsis The film ARQ is a time-warp science fiction narrative with its unpolished narrative woven with human errors and memories. Though mostly set within a single residence, boundaries perceived in ARQ, set in a scarred and socially polarized world in the proximity of tomorrow, touch the abysmal depths of intricacy and emotion. The narrative has
Synopsis Elysium is a 2013 film written and directed by Neill Blomkamp. It is a sci-fi drama film set in the year 2154 and portrays a dystopian futuristic world divided into two spaces—Earth and a space colony. In the movie, the majority of the population lives on Earth which is overpopulated, heavily industrialized, and in a state of desperate economic
Synopsis Spiderhead stands as a psychological science-fiction thriller interrogating the tenuous boundary between autonomy and coercion. Adapted from George Saunders’ dystopic short parable “Escape from Spiderhead,” the motion picture unfurls within a plausible near-term setting where neurochemical engineering has advanced dramatically. Its locus—the minimalist, high-tech penitentiary dubbed Spiderhead—occupies a forbidding archipelago, isolated from the surveillance
Overview Acide is a dystopian fantasy drama film released in 2023 as a collaboration between France and Belgium, directed by Just Philippot who also co-wrote the film with Yacine Badday. Acide is based on Philippot’s 2018 short film titled Acid, and this sequel further elaborates on the horrifying concept of acid rain which systematically causes
Economic Overview and Context: Looper is an American science fiction action thriller film released in 2012. It is directed and written by Rian Johnson. Johnson is known for his inventive storytelling that blends different genres for Looper. In the film, he tells a gritty character-driven time travel story that deals with morality, choice, and the
