Posts Tagged ‘Sci-Fi’

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Oct19

New Rose Hotel (1998) DVD9, DVD5

by movieworld on October 19th, 2020 at 13:39
Posted In: .Other movies, Crime, Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Mystery

New Rose Hotel (1998) DVD5
The New Rose Hotel was based on one of the short stories in "Burning Chrome", an anthology of the short fiction of William Ford Gibson. He also wrote the short story and the screenplay for "Johnny Mnemonic", and is the guy who coined the term "cyberspace" in his 1982 novel "Neuromancer", which was soon elevated to cult status as one of the first novels in a new science fiction sub-genre called Cyberpunk.

The basic premise of this film is that corporate espionage has changed. It makes no sense to steal patents and technologies in this near future, because they are all obsolete in six months. The only true value is the minds of the men who create the valuable replacement technologies. Christopher Walken and Willem Dafoe play a couple of corporate raiders/spies who specialize in getting the top minds to defect from one company to another. Asia Argento is the hooker they recruit to assist them in their biggest score. Things go wrong. Really, really wrong.

Director: Abel Ferrara
Cast: Christopher Walken, Willem Dafoe, Asia Argento, Annabella Sciorra, John Lurie, Yoshitaka Amano, Gretchen Mol
Country: USA
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
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Oct19

It Happened Here (1965) DVD9 and Blu-Ray BFI

by movieworld on October 19th, 2020 at 11:24
Posted In: .Other movies, Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, War

It Happened Here 1965
A chilling vision of what might have been had Germany conquered England during World War II, Kevin Brownlow and Andrew Mollo's It Happened Here (1966) is also a remarkable accomplishment in independent filmmaking.

The occupation of England is seen through the eyes of Pauline (Pauline Murray), a country nurse fleeing the fighting that has broken out between German troops and resistance partisans. Using Ireland as a base, the Americans and 'loyalist' English guerillas are attempting to re-invade from the West. Pauline witnesses a massacre of civilians. Believeing that the partisans were responsible, she decides like the majority of her countrymen that getting things back to normal is more important than patriotism. "After all," she sighs, "We did lose the war."

BD50, DVD9 | 1080p AVC, PAL 4:3 | 01:40:31 | 45.2 Gb + 7.73 Gb
Language: English
Subtitles: English

Directors: Kevin Brownlow, Andrew Mollo
Cast: Pauline Murray, Sebastian Shaw, Bart Allison
Country: UK
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, War
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Oct14

V: The Final Battle (1984) 2 x Blu-Ray

by movieworld on October 14th, 2020 at 11:37
Posted In: .Other movies, Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi

V The Final Battle 1984
V: The Final Battle begins several months after the first miniseries ended.

After winning its first victories against the alien Visitors, the Resistance is growing ever stronger. But the Visitors are adapting too, strengthening their armor and security measures as they harvest Earth’s water and Humanity itself for food. The good news is that there’s an alien Fifth Column that’s willing to help stop them… and the Resistance has discovered a bacteria that can kill the Visitors. Weaponized as a “red dust,” it provides the perfect means to fight back. But the Visitors have a contingency plan—they’ll use one of their “motherships” as a doomsday device to destroy the Earth if their efforts are defeated.

BD50 + BD25 | 1080p AVC | 267 min | 64 Gb + 3% rec
Language: English
Subtitles: English

Director: Richard T. Heffron
Cast: Jane Badler, Michael Durrell, Robert Englund
Country: USA
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
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Oct13

V: The Original Miniseries (1983) Blu-Ray Warner Archive Collection

by movieworld on October 13th, 2020 at 10:36
Posted In: .Other movies, Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi

V The Original Miniseries 1983
Our world changes forever with the arrival of the Visitors in mother ships. They seem friendly and human, but this familiar form hides a nasty enemy. The reptilian aliens have nefarious plans and will do anything to keep the populace from discovering them. Scientists are the primary target and are rounded up for “conversion” on the ships. Meanwhile, the Visitors mount a propaganda campaign to keep everyone subservient to their will. It’s a brilliant strategy, but individuals like investigative reporter Mike Donovan (Marc Singer) and Dr. Julie Parrish (Faye Grant) mount a resistance. Their odds of survival are slim, but the determined group has a chance if they stick together. As the casualties rise, they enact a daring mission to strike at the Visitors and discover their true plans.

The Original V Mini Series was one of the most popular Sci-fi Television events of all time. An estimated 65 million people in the US alone tuned in to watch it.

Director: Kenneth Johnson
Cast: Jane Badler, Michael Durrell, Faye Grant
Country: USA
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
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Oct07

Hasta el viento tiene miedo / Even the Wind Is Afraid (1968) Blu-Ray VCI

by movieworld on October 7th, 2020 at 16:02
Posted In: .Other movies, Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Horror, Mystery, Thriller

Even the Wind Is Afraid 1968
In "Hasta el viento tiene miedo", a group of boarding school girls suffer from the torments of a authoritarian and conniving headmistress called Bernarda, who seems to unload of all her anger on the girls. Student Claudia (Alicia Bonet) has been having repeated nightmares where she hears her name being called out in the dead of night. Her dream takes her to an old tower in the grounds of the school, where she sees the body of a girl hanging from the rafters. Along with classmates, Kitty, Yvette, Marina and Flavia, they begin to investigate the tower and the mysterious events of its past. They are suspended from the school for the antics, but Claudia learns from one of the female staff members that the person in the dream is a student who killed herself years before, and that the school principal knows the situation more than she's willing to admit. It seems the tormented and restless spirit is hell-bent on enacting her revenge.

BD25 | 1080p AVC | 01:29:59 | 21.4 Gb + 3% rec
Language: Spanish
Subtitles: English
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller

Director: Carlos Enrique Taboada
Cast: Marga Lopez, Maricruz Olivier, Alicia Bonet
Country: Mexico
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Oct07

Destination Moon (1950) DVD5

by movieworld on October 7th, 2020 at 13:44
Posted In: .Other movies, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Thriller

Destination Moon 1950
Under the ever-present menace of the Enemies of America getting there first, a group of industrialists band together to design and build a rocketship capable of traveling to the Moon and back. When legal pressures are brought to bear on the project, the lead industrialist defiantly launches without permission; the three heads of the project and one wisecracking guy from Brooklyn make it to the Moon, but then discover that they don't have enough fuel to make it back...

Destination Moon was the first film of the so-called Golden Age of Science-Fiction Cinema that lasted from around 1950 to 1957. It has an immense optimism that paved the way for every other science-fiction film of the 1950s to follow and its success was something that made producer George Pal into science-fiction cinema’s leading voice of the era.

DVD5 | PAL 4:3 | 01:31:22 | 3.61 Gb + 3% rec
Language: English, Italiano
Subtitles: none

Directors: Irving Pichel, Walter Lantz
Cast: John Archer, Warner Anderson, Tom Powers, Dick Wesson
Country: USA
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
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Oct02

Naked Lunch (1991) 2 x DVD and Blu-Ray Criterion Collection

by movieworld on October 2nd, 2020 at 15:43
Posted In: .Other movies, Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi

Naked Lunch 1991
Loosely based on the works (and less loosely on the life) of infamous author William S. Burroughs, David Cronenberg's Naked Lunch is the perfect cinematic blend of art house, crime noir, horror and surrealism. Seeing as how Naked Lunch (the novel) is a totally free form work that really hasn't got much of an actual narrative, Cronenberg made the artistic decision to base his film of the same name on parts of the titular novel and the rest on actual events from Burroughs' life.

The main character is a failed writer turned bug exterminator who discovers that he is short on bug powder because his wife, Joan (Judy Davis), has started shooting up on it. Instead of trying to get her off the powder, Bill decides to experiment with it and see if it is as good as Joan claims. Soon after, his typewriter turns into a giant talking bug that urges him to head to the Interzone, a magical place where lost souls can rebuild their lives and roam free...

Director: David Cronenberg
Cast: Peter Weller, Judy Davis, Ian Holm
Country: Canada, UK, Japan
Genre: Drama

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Oct01

Eclipse Series 37: When Horror Came to Shochiku: The X from Outer Space (1967), Goke, Body Snatcher from Hell (1968), The Living Skeleton (1968), Genocide (1968) 4 x DVD5

by movieworld on October 1st, 2020 at 16:18
Posted In: .Other movies, Asian, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Horror, Thriller

Eclipse Series 37
Japanese genre filmmakers of the late 1950s and '60s could range far ahead of what was permitted in American studio films. Japanese gangster pictures were more brutal, their juvenile delinquency pictures more frank about sex and their dramas more willing to include radical political sentiments.

For science fiction/horror fans, Japan’s Shochiku Company Limited always ran a distant third to Toho and Daiei, producers of the Godzilla and Gamera monster franchises, respectively, despite a long history of film production and distribution dating back to 1920. Over the decades, Shochiku produced hundreds of shomin-geki, arthouse, ghost, and anime films, including many by such respected directors as Yasujiro Ozu, Kenji Mizoguchi, Nagisa Oshima, Akira Kurosawa and Takashi Miike.

In 1967 the Shochiku studio launched a brief commercial foray into fantasy, horror and science fiction, hoping to break new commercial ground. The Eclipse Series 37 DVD set When Horror Came to Shochiku gathers these four eccentric thrillers into one package.

These films feature rather unique monsters and showcase distinctive aesthetic styles. Furthermore, and perhaps due to the influence of Shochiku, these flicks appear to have a unique sense of gravitas combined with somewhat dazzling and psychedelic visuals, an alluring mixture not commonly seen in other Japanese horror films of that period.

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Sep29

Metropolis (1927) 2 x Blu-Ray + DVD9 Eureka – Masters of Cinema 90th Anniversary Limited Edition

by movieworld on September 29th, 2020 at 18:04
Posted In: .Other movies, Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi

Metropolis 1927
Fritz Lang' Metropolis is one of the greatest films ever made. It's amazing set design, brilliant cinematography, groundbreaking special effects and futuristic story truly makes it one of the must-sees in cinema!

It is set in the future, in a city called Metropolis where the citizens are divided into two groups: workers (who live under the ground and are working 10 hour shifts by enormous machines that keeps Metropolis working) and the royals (living in luxury in the great city on the surfice). And over them all, is the creator of Metropolis: Joh Fredersen (Alfred Abel). His son Freder (Gustav Frohlich) falls in love with a woman of the working-class called Maria (Brigitte Helm) who preaches that a mediator will come and create peace and equality for both workers and royals. Joh Fredersen sees Maria as a big threat agains his "order", so he and the inventor Rotwang (Rudolf Klein-Rogge) kidnaps her and copies her appearence onto a robot, which will destroy the workers faith in Maria. However, Rotwang secretly plans to programme the robot to make the workers destroy the city and crush Joh Fredersen, as an act of vengeance against Fredersen for a sin he committed in the past...

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Sep29

Waxworks / Das Wachsfigurenkabinett (1924) Blu-Ray, DVD5

by movieworld on September 29th, 2020 at 16:06
Posted In: .Other movies, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Horror

Waxworks 1924
A poet (William Dieterle) takes a job to write back-stories about three exhibits in a carnival empresario's Wax Museum. He does so, and we see three stories where the poet and the empresario's daughter Eva (Olga Belajeff) play the ingenue leads. The first and longest tale is a fanciful farce in old Baghdad, where a baker becomes a criminal to impress his fickle wife, while the Caliph (Emil Jannings) goes out of his way to seduce her. In the second tale, the evil Ivan the Terrible (Conrad Veidt) poisons supposed enemies for fun, and callously uses a nobleman as a shield against assassins. But the madman's superstitions backfire on him. The final, very short third story is not a story at all, just a series of phantom illusions where the hero is threatened by Jack the Ripper.

Despite its narrative and structural imperfections, Waxworks is a prime example of German expressionism at its most vivid, comprising fantastic stories set in crazily distorted representations of familiar settings - and it is no accident that each revolves around a murderous tyrant. Influenced by Robert Wiene's The Cabinet of Dr Caligari (1920) and F.W. Murnau's Nosferatu (1922), Leni carves an unsettling dreamscape that is both freakishly absurd and subtly disturbing, the oddly proportioned sets lending a fearful manic potency to each of the villainous protagonists.
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