• Director:Andrew Stanton
• Taglines:Lost in Our World. Found in Another.
• Genres:Action | Adventure | Fantasy | Sci-Fi
• Release Date:9 March 2012 (USA)

Cast

Bryan Cranston : Powell
Taylor Kitsch : John Carter
Mark Strong : Matai Shang
Willem Dafoe : Tars Tarkas
Ciarán Hinds : Tardos Mors

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The film is largely based on A Princess of Mars, the first novel to feature John Carter. It was originally serialized in 1912 over multiple issues of the pulp magazine All Story, under the title “Under the Moons of Mars,” and then collected as a hardcover book in 1917. In the novel John Carter is a former American Civil War Confederate Army officer who is miraculously transported to Mars, known to its inhabitants as Barsoom. He learns that the planet is dying from the loss of its atmosphere and water, and that only a peaceful alliance of its intelligent inhabitants can save the species of Barsoom from extinction.

• Director:Brad Peyton
• Genres:Action | Adventure | Family | Fantasy | Sci-Fi
• Taglines:Believe the impossible. Discover the incredible.
• Release Date:10 February 2012 (USA)

Cast

Josh Hutcherson : Sean Anderson
Dwayne Johnson : Hank Parsons
Vanessa Hudgens : Kailani
Michael Caine : Grandfather
Kristin Davis : Liz Anderson

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Sean Anderson is caught by police escaping from a satellite research centre where he was attempting to access a signal broadcast that was too faint to pick up outside of the facility. Escorted home by his step father, Hank Parsons, he eventually reveals that the mysterious broadcast he was attempting to access was a set of indistinguishable words that he is trying to decode. Hank, in an attempt to bond with his step son, solves the code which eventually reveals the co-ordinates for the Mysterious Island, which were hidden in three novels- Treasure Island, Gulliver’s Travels and Verne’s Mysterious Island. Sean believes that his long lost grandfather was the one behind the transmission, and that he has discovered the island. Sean and Hank immediately set out for the island of Palau. Both Hank and his wife, Liz, don’t believe anything that Sean is convinced of, such as the fact that the Mysterious Island could exist and that his grandfather discovered it, but after Hank considers that this trip could help bring him closer to his usual anti-social step son, the couple decide it would be ideal. Once arriving at Palau, they board a private helicopter run by Gabato and his daughter Kailani, whom Sean immediately develops a crush on. The four travel to the co-ordinates until their helicopter is hit by a freak storm, causing them to crash on the island. Eventually they manage to make their way inland where they finally meet Sean’s grandfather. He leads them back to his hut where they spend the night. Once it is determined that a radio signal for a distress call can only be sent once a fortnight, it is decided that the group will stay put until then. The next day the five travel to the lost city of Atlantis, buried far back in the jungles. There Hank finds evidence to believe that the island is slowly sinking. It is revealed through Sean’s grandfather that the island sinks underwater once every 140 years or so due to shifting tectonic plates, and that they still have years before the next cycle begins. Hank’s recent discovery however shows that his Sean’s grandfather’s calculations are wrong and that the island will sink in a few days. From there the group set out to Captain Nemo’s tomb, which contains his journal holding the whereabouts of the legendary submarine, The Nautilus, their only hope of escaping on time. Once the journal is uncovered, they set out towards Nautilus, encountering various obstacles in their path. Sean’s foot is dislocated after a dog fight involving a giant bird, and the group is slowed down considerably.

The next morning it is discovered that Gabato has left the group to return to a previously passed volcano of gold, which he believes is his and Kailani’s only hope of living a decent life. Kailani and Sean’s grandfather set out to find him while Hank and Sean continue to find the Nautilus. Once at the submarine’s entrance, the two are disheartened to find that the rising sea level has buried the cave underwater, and that they two must dive without assistance down to where it is located. Using a simple breathing device, they manage to reach the submarine and open the entrance hatch, narrowly avoiding a nasty encounter with a giant electric eel. Kailani and Sean’s grandfather eventually find Gabato and convince him to return to the submarine. Once there, they are distraught to discover that Hank and Sean are nowhere in sight. Unbeknownst to them, the pair are attempting to start the submarine, although the batteries are long exhausted. Hank devises a plan to use the eel to conduct enough electricity to kick start the Nautilus, and equipping a basic diving suit, exits the sub to confront the eel and throw a harpoon at it. Once the submarine starts, they quickly travel to the surface and retrieve the other three. Six months later, Gabato is head of a successful tourism movement back on Palau, and has enough money to send Kailani overseas to the states where she is dating Sean and attending college. Read more

• Director:Kazuya Murata
• Taglines:Finally tell the story of forbidden bonds
• Genres:Animation | Action | Adventure | Fantasy | Sci-Fi
• Runtime:110 min

Cast

Shelley Calene-Black : Miranda (voice: English version)
Rie Kugimiya : Alphonse Elric (voice)
Shinichirô Miki : Roy Mustang (voice)
Fumiko Orikasa : Riza Hawkeye (voice)
Romi Pak : Edward Elric (voice)

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After a mysterious prisoner with only a few weeks left on his sentence breaks out of prison in Central City, the Elric brothers attempt to track him down. The search leads them to Table City in the southwestern country of Creta, where Alphonse rescues a young alchemist named Julia from the very man they are trying to capture. In the thick of the fight, they literally tumble into Julia’s home turf, the slums of Milos Valley, and are embroiled in the grassroots rebellion of her people. Read more

• Director:Xavier Gens
• Taglines:To survive the end of the world you must first survive each other.
• Genres:Sci-Fi | Thriller
• Release Date:13 January 2012 (USA)

Cast

Lauren German : Eva
Michael Biehn : Mickey
Milo Ventimiglia : Josh
Michael Eklund : Bobby
Ashton Holmes : Adrien

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Set in the the near future, the film opens with pandemonium and a chaotic sprint towards the basement of a New York apartment building, just moments before the city outside is decimated…

When a cataclysmic explosion devastates New York, eight strangers take refuge in the basement of their apartment building, a converted fallout shelter designed by their paranoid superintendent Mickey. With just three connecting rooms it’s barely big enough, but with stockpiles of food and water, the group are at least safe from the horrors outside, and they settle in and attempt to fathom the catastrophe that has ended the lives of so many of their loved ones.

But suddenly men in HAZMAT suits storm their shelter and open fire. The strangers join forces in a desperate bid to take on this enemy, with no-one understanding what these HAZMATS are looking for, and what drives them to be so merciless.

With fatalities on both sides and the remaining HAZMATS temporarily pushed back and locked out, the worst is yet to come for the group. Cabin fever sets in as the perception of the shelter shifts from safe-haven to claustrophobic rat-trap. Fear of radiation-poisoning and dwindling supplies play on their minds, while the young, beautiful Eva has more immediate worries… Her fiancé Sam is weaker than the other males, who are slowly starting to regress into ruthless, violent, predators.

As tension mounts their sanctuary becomes a living hell, and with Sam powerless to protect Eva, she must rely on her wits to save herself from becoming the mercy of the pack in a thrilling final act. Read more

• Director:Chris Gorak
• Genres:Action | Horror | Sci-Fi | Thriller
• Release Date:25 December 2011 (USA)

Cast

Olivia Thirlby : Natalie
Rachael Taylor : Anne
Joel Kinnaman : Skyler
Max Minghella : Ben
Dato Bakhtadze : Sergei

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In Russia, a group of young adults struggle to survive after an alien invasion.

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• Director:Lars von Trier
• Taglines:Enjoy it while it lasts
• Genres:Drama | Sci-Fi
• Runtime:136 min

Cast

Kirsten Dunst : Justine
Charlotte Gainsbourg : Claire
Kiefer Sutherland : John
Charlotte Rampling : Gaby
John Hurt : Dexter

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The film begins with a dream-like introductory sequence involving several of the main characters and images from space. A giant planet is shown threateningly approaching Earth, eventually destroying it in a planetary collision. The film is then divided into two parts.

In part one, called “Justine”, the young couple Justine and Michael are getting married at the castle-like home of Justine’s sister, Claire, and her husband. The glamorous and expensive party is far from successful, as Justine’s divorced parents are openly fighting at the dinner. Justine herself is alienated from her sister, her new husband, her advertising-executive boss and her parents. She drifts away from the party, and becomes increasingly sad and desperate during the night. At several occasions, she looks at a specific star, which seems to shine brighter than normal. Claire’s husband John says it is the star Antares, and later in the film the star disappears. At the end of the party, Michael leaves Justine, implying that their marriage is called off.

In part two, called “Claire”, Justine has become severely depressed. She comes to stay with Claire and John, who live in the castle where the party took place with their son Leo. Justine is unable to carry out normal everyday activities like taking a bath or even eating, but gets better over time. It turns out that the reason for Antares’ disappearance was the rogue planet Melancholia, which had eclipsed the star. Melancholia, a massive blue telluric planet (or super-earth), becomes visible in the sky, approaching Earth. John, who is keen on astronomy, is excited about the planet, and looks forward to the “fly-by” expected by scientists, who have assured the public that Earth and Melancholia will pass by each other without colliding.

Claire is very fearful and believes the end of the world is imminent. She does a search on the Internet and finds a site describing the movements of the planet Melancholia around Earth as a “dance of death” in which the apparent passage of Melancholia initiates a slingshot orbit that will bring the planets into collision soon after. On the night of the fly-by, it seems like John was right, as Melancholia indeed passes by Earth in a near-miss. After the fly-by, background birdsong abruptly ceases, recalling the falling leaves and dead birds glimpsed behind Justine in the opening frames of the film. Horses calm down from an earlier state of agitation. Read more

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• Director:Andrew Niccol
• Taglines:Time Is Power
• Genres:Crime | Sci-Fi | Thriller
• Release Date:28 October 2011 (USA)

Cast

Justin Timberlake : Will Salas
Olivia Wilde : Rachel Salas
Shyloh Oostwald : Maya
Johnny Galecki : Borel
Colin McGurk : Citizen

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In a retro-future when the aging gene has been switched off, people stop aging at 25 years old. However, stamped on their arm is a clock of how long they will live. To avoid overpopulation, time has become the currency and the way people pay for luxuries and necessities. The rich can live forever, while the rest try to negotiate for immortality. A poor young man is accused of murder when he inherits a fortune of time from a dead upper-class man over a century old prior to his death. He is forced to go on the run from a corrupt FBI-like police force known as the “Timekeepers”, as well as from a hoodlum-like middle-aged Mob called the “Minutemen”, led by a senior citizen named Fortis, who is 75 years old.Read more

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• Director:Anubhav Sinha
• Genres:Action | Adventure | Sci-Fi

Cast

Shah Rukh Khan : Shekhar / G.One
Kareena Kapoor : Sonia Subramanium
Arjun Rampal : PiBi 2 / RA. One
Shahana Goswami : Jenny Nayar
Satish Shah : Iyer

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Ra One is a sci-fi movie based on Gaming, Bad Guys and Super Heroes.

In the movie Shahrukh Khan plays the role of a father who is trying hard to ‘fit-in’ in his Son’s badass world- A son … trying hard to ‘dude-up’ his dad from ‘aiiiyyyo’ to ‘YO!’ And a mother lost in translation between her husband’s ‘ingeva’ and her son’s ‘Inn’it!’

While Shekhar was trying every trick in the book to woo his son, get ‘dude-ified’ and ‘up his coolness quotient’ his son had given up on him..

Just when the father-son duo hit a deadlock- Shekhar strikes gold when he designs one hell of a game..

Finally it all starts falling in place…as the family comes together….only to find themselves in the middle of a crash, not just a hard drive crash but a crash that would drive them to a disaster and make their lives go – KABOOM!!!

All hell breaks loose when – the game that was meant to be played with.. starts playing them..

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• Director:Shawn Levy
• Taglines:Courage is stronger than steel.
• Genres:Action | Drama | Sci-Fi
• Runtime:127 min

Cast

Hugh Jackman : Charlie Kenton
Evangeline Lilly : Bailey Tallet
Anthony Mackie : Finn
Kevin Durand : Ricky
Dakota Goyo : Max

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Robots have replaced humans in boxing. Charlie Kenton (Hugh Jackman) loses a chance to become a boxing champion when robots take over, and he becomes a small-time promoter. When he has difficulty making a living, he reluctantly teams up with his son Max (Dakota Goyo) to build a robot that can contend for the championship. Read more

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• Director:Matthijs van Heijningen Jr.
• Taglines:It’s not human. Yet.
• Genres:Horror | Mystery | Sci-Fi | Thriller
• Runtime:103 min

Cast

Mary Elizabeth Winstead : Kate Lloyd
Joel Edgerton : Sam Carter
Ulrich Thomsen : Dr. Sander Halvorson
Eric Christian Olsen : Adam Goodman
Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje : Jameson

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Taking place three days before the events of the John Carpenter film,[5] paleontologist Kate Lloyd (Mary Elizabeth Winstead) joins a Norwegian scientific team that has stumbled across a crashed extraterrestrial spaceship buried in the ice of Antarctica. They discover a creature that seems to have died in the crash eons ago.

When an experiment frees the alien from its frozen prison, Kate joins the crew’s pilot, Carter (Joel Edgerton), to keep it from killing and imitating them one at a time, using its uncanny ability to mimic any life form it absorbs through digestion, and potentially reaching civilization. Read more

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