Now what’s the most daunting aspect of bringing Frank Herbert’s renowned sci fi masterpiece, “Dune,” to life? World building? Sure! But what’s even more intimidating is to adapt it to film, considering the novel itself was a trailblazer for all space empire sagas. Fortunately, Denis Villeneuve’s rendition surpassed what we anticipated. Dune delves deeply into ...
From 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) to Interstellar (2014), here are 15 brilliant movies like Dune. In 1965, a landmark text in sci-fi literature was published, which changed the face of the genre for good. Frank Herbert’s masterpiece Dune, has influenced countless works in sci-fi, fantasy, and other genres. Dune is set in the distant ...
Denis Villeneuve’s Blade Runner 2049 (2017) is the long-awaited sequel to Ridley Scott’s sci-fi cult classic, Blade Runner (1982). The original film was loosely based on Philip K Dick’s 1968 novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? Though Scott’s Blade Runner didn’t do well at the box-office, it was considered as the foundational film in ...
From Metropolis (1927) to Blade Runner (1982), here’s ranking the best cyberpunk movies. In 1980, Bruce Bethke wrote a short story about a gang of unruly teenage hackers. The story was titled ‘Cyberpunk’. Bruce Bethke coined the term by combining the words ‘cybernetics’ and ‘punk’. The former is a scientific term indicating the study of control and ...
From Alphaville (1965) to Akira (1988), here are 15 great sci-movies like Blade Runner. Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner (1982) is based on Philip K Dick’s 1968 dystopian science-fiction novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? While the film didn’t do well at the box office, it set the visual palette for the cyberpunk movie subgenre of sci-fi. A ...
From Alien (1979) to The Platform (2019), here are some of the best sci fi horror movies of all time. The intersection of science fiction and horror genres sounds so perfect since both share a similar theme. Fear. Of course, the horror genre has supernatural elements that are beyond the explanation of science. Similarly, science-fiction ...
From Solaris (1972) to Arrival, here are 13 movies like Interstellar every Nolan fan will love. In a very short span of time, Christopher Nolan has established himself as one of the most influential directors of our times. He redefined the superhero genre with The Dark Knight trilogy creating layered characters and action set pieces ...
From Blade Runner 2049 to Dune, here are all Denis Villeneuve films, ranked. French-Canadian director Denis Villeneuve debuted as a filmmaker in 1998. His early feature films were made in French for Canadian production studios. Although his first two Canadian features didn’t garner much acclaim, Villeneuve’s breakthrough came with the black-and-white drama Polytechnique (2009). The ...
From Cube (1997) to Vast of Night (2020), here’s our pick of the best indie sci-fi movies. When we think of an art-house or indie film we expect films with artistic values, uncompromising vision and a narrative that serves value beyond entertainment. Most of these films are slow-paced human dramas with naturalistic dialogue and performances targeted ...
If I were to talk of the greatest films in the last decade that changed the very idea of what cinematography could accomplish, Christopher Nolan’s Inception (2010) would undoubtedly count among them. It marked a perfect union between original storytelling and practical cinematography that was previously unheard of. The story of a dream extractor Cobb (played ...
Cinematographer Roger Deakins’ ground-breaking work in Blade Runner 2049 won him multiple accolades, including his first Oscar for Best Cinematography. Denis Villeneuve’s Blade Runner 2049 was a sequel to Ridley Scott’s 1982 sci-fi noir. Based on Philip K. Dick’s 1968 novel ‘Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?’, the film was set in a dystopian future ...
The story revolves around a linguist expert-and-college lecturer Louise Banks (Amy Adams), who is caught up with traumatic memories of her daughter and is called upon for help by the government when twelve extraterrestrial objects (nicknamed ‘Shells’) appear across the planet. With a willingness to interact with the ET (tremendous use of VFX) to figure ...
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