Interstellar

Interstellar

In some 60 odd years, the Earth has become a dry and dusty place. Some kind of biological crop killer has killed almost every product, and only corn remains.

On a small farm in a small town, we find Cooper, a former NASA pilot and an incredibly smart man who’s career has been reduced to farming (just like everyone else’s). They call themselves the caretaker generation as the world tries to sit tight, try to make as much food as possible, and hope the rain comes back next year.

But NASA knows it won’t.

When Cooper and his aspiring-scientist daughter Murph stumble upon a set of coordinates that lead them to a secret NASA base, Cooper’s old teacher Professor Brand, Brand’s daughter, and a collection of other leading scientists have a plan; a last ditch effort to try and save the human race. Just a few year’s distance away from Earth, near Saturn, a wormhole appeared 14 years ago; 10 years ago, NASA sent 12 astronauts through it to a distant galaxy with the hope that they would find a planet suitable for human life. There were a few promising finds, and now Cooper and his new crew must bring the supplies necessary to create human life on one of these planets, and hopefully, help find a way to bring those on Earth to their new home planet.

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Godzilla (2014)

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The world’s most famous monster is pitted against malevolent creatures who, bolstered by humanity’s scientific arrogance, threaten our very existence.

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Director: Gareth Edwards

Writer[s]: Max Borenstein, Dave Callaham

Starring: Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Elizabeth Olsen, Bryan Cranston, Ken Wantanabe, David Strathairn, Sally Hawkins

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Godzilla is an icon. While technically not being the first monster movie ever, it has got to be the most recognizable, and definitely the most practiced [this current film is the 29th (literally) film featuring the creature]. While being this popular, however, it has still never been truly modernized before this attempt, unless you want to include the atrocious slandering that was 1998’s Godzilla, but it would be best to soon forget that pile of garbage. It’s damn time we got a quality franchise film from the modern era, and that is what we have got ourselves here.

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Her

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A lonely writer develops an unlikely relationship with his newly purchased operating system that’s designed to meet his every need.

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Director: Spike Jonze

Writer[s]: Spike Jonze

Starring: Joaquin Phoenix, Amy Adams, Scarlett Johansson, Chris Pratt, Rooney Mara, Kristen Wiig, Olivia Wilde

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The original synopsis for Her when it was in pre-production was something along the line of: “A man falls in love with his phone operating system”. Okay, so, a guy falls in love with Siri, and the story is being written by the director of Being John Malkovich and Adapation., so it’s gonna be some weird, mind bending experience. I was honestly excited to see it, but when trailers started coming out and full plot summaries were revealed, it turns out that this is a more serious, in-depth, true, loving story than I ever imagined. It’s a love story of our near future; a prediction of what is just around the corner.

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Gravity

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A medical engineer and an astronaut work together to survive after an accident leaves them adrift in space.

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Director: Alfonso Cuarón

Writer[s]: Alfonso Cuarón, Jonás Cuarón

Starring: Sandra Bullock, George Clooney

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Alfonso Cuarón’s Children of Men might be the best visually directed movie I have ever seen. This conventionally shot film has held that title [according to me] for seven years of cinema, including the reinvention and revolution of 3D production. Not included in those seven years since Children of Men is another film written and directed by Cuarón. In that time, I have been patiently waiting for the return of the master. And then, in 2010, it was released that he was working on a movie based in space. Alfonso Cuarón and outer-space. That’s all I needed to hear.

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The World’s End

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Five friends who reunite in an attempt to top their epic pub crawl from 20 years earlier unwittingly become humankind’s only hope for survival.

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Director: Edgar Wright

Writer[s]: Edgar Wright, Simon Pegg

Starring: Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, Martin Freeman, Paddy Considine, Eddie Marsan, Rosamund Pike

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Almost a full decade ago, a trio of friends and colleagues who had produced a now cult-classic British television show Spaced decided to make a zombie movie together. A few years later, they followed it up with a a police drama in the same vein. And now, nine years later, they have completed what is now called the Three Flavors Cornetto Trilogy with an alien invasion flick. The three friends are Director/writer Edgar Wright, co-writer and co-star Simon Pegg, and co-star Nick Frost, and the three films are Sean of the Dead, Hot Fuzz, and The World’s End, and they are three of the most entertaining films created in the last decade.

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