A robot cowboy on an unidentified planet sacrifices its life to save the last seed, a Groot-like conscious plant being that escape the evil Pteranodons and starts new life on a new planet. Short, pointed, beautiful and meaningful.
Reviews tagged ‘scifi’ by aaron white
2017
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First is made with friendly neighbourhood aliens in this remarkably well-produced sci-fi short. The story is very simple: a test pilot with a family waiting at home is making the first manned faster-than-light transit to Mars. All goes well on the outward journey, but something goes wrong on the return. It is nice to see a human and family-centric story at the heart of a sci-fi adventure in which aliens are not automatically evil.
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2022
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A trippy, well-executed sci-fi short about a world in which you swap bodies when you have sex. Bea appears to be in some kind of sisterly Order, and is sent out to accomplish this swap for the first time, yet doesn’t quite obey the rules - evidently you are always supposed to swap back. Much isn’t explained in this short - and it is easy to imagine this becoming a feature length movie - but what seems clear is that…
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2007
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A simply-plotted, clever piece of sci-fi in which Cillian Murphy plays a nuclear physicist trying to explode a bomb to prevent humanity’s destruction...Wait…
I like the fact that in this movie the humans, who are all brilliant and scientific as anything, make real human mistakes. They don’t check the numbers. They forget about important things. They take unnecessary risks and it backfires on them. They are trying to save humanity by exploding a nuclear bomb in the sun to restart…
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2012
A pair of East London brothers make a plan to rob a bank in order to rescue their grandad’s Retirement Home from being shut down. But during the robbery a zombie apocalypse breaks out. It’s pretty much as d in the title, and nobody should be looking for much more than that. It is pretty funny, decently gory, and adds a fun element of old age pensioners fighting off zombies in wheelchairs and with fake legs. They maybe could have…
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2024
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I love movies where the protagonist is isolated in an extreme environment and has to reckon with his own humanity, sanity, and purpose. Even better if it is set in space amidst a cosmic mystery. And if the story can feature a giant telepathic space spider, well now all the boxes are getting ticked. This movie is really about the exploration of love and regret, alongside endings and beginnings. Sandler is very good as usual in his dramatic roles; Carey…
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2024
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He’s not the Messiah, he’s a very naughty boy!
A staggering movie in scale, cinematography, sound, acting and story-telling. It is a narrative of the danger of religio-political manipulation, but over a vast time and distance. Paul is the ‘prophesied’ Messiah of the Fremen on Dune, but he is fully aware that it is all due to the millenia-long machinations of the Bene Gesserit, the secret society of ‘witches’ who have been preserving and determining the destiny of the powerful…
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