Posts Tagged ‘alternative-reality’

Timecop (1994)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Action | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: Japan | USA
Actors: Jean-Claude Van Damme | Mia Sara | Ron Silver | Bruce McGill | Gloria Reuben | Scott Bellis | Jason Schombing | Scott Lawrence | Kenneth Welsh | Brent Woolsey | Brad Loree | Shane Kelly | Richard Faraci | Steven Lambert | Kevin McNulty
Directors: Peter Hyams
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In Washington DC in 1994, the Senate Oversight Committee (SOC) is being spoken to in the capitol building by George Spota, who explains that for the past 20 years, Doctor Hans Kleindast, the Nobel laureate who help the government with the space program back in the 1960s and 1970s, has been doing research, and his field of research has been time travel. The SOC believes that Hans is a quack — until George tells the SOC that Hans actually succeeded in his research and took a trip to the past then back to the present. You can’t travel into the future because the future hasn’t happened yet. George makes it clear that a covert agency is needed to police time travel, so the Time Enforcement Commission (TEC) is formed. Named as the director of the TEC is Commander Eugene Matuzak, formerly of the Washington DC police department. Senator Aaron McComb, who sees possibilities, agrees to chair the oversight on the new program. Sometime later, at a shopping center, TEC agent Max Walker and his wife Melissa are being watched by a pair of shady looking men. Later, at home. Max and Melissa spend some passionate time together. That night, Melissa is about to tell Max something extremely important when the phone rings. Max answers the phone and is told to go to TEC headquarters. Max gets dressed and as soon as Max opens the front door to go outside, he is attacked by the two men from the shopping center. As the two men are beating Max up. Max sees Aaron looking out the window of the bedroom that Melissa is still in, and Aaron is holding Melissa hostage, forcing Melissa to watch Max’s beating. The two men outside then shoot Max, who is wearing a bulletproof vest — and then an explosion engulfs the house, killing Melissa. On October 30, 1929, on Wall Street in New York City, a man named Lyle Atwood enters an office building and rides an elevator up to an office. There is a sudden ripple in the office, and Max enters from the future. It turns out that Lyle is Max’s partner, and Lyle is planning to stop the depression from happening. Max wants to know who Lyle is working for, and Lyie calls two security men into the office to deal with Max. Max beats up the two security men, and Lyle pulls out a gun and opens fire on Max. When Lyle runs out of bullets, Max forces Lyle to admit that he’s working for Aaron, and that Aaron has paid off a lot of other TEC agents as well. Lyle then jumps out the window. Max jumps out after Lyle, grabs him, and takes Lyle with him back to present time, which is now the year 2004, ten years after Melissa’s murder. TEC judge Marshall sentences Lyle to be immediately executed, so Lyle is sent back to 1929 and is dropped to his death from the point in midair where Max and Lyle disappeared to 2004. At TEC Headquarters in 2004, Aaron, Max, and Matuzak are showing Senator Malcolm Nelson around the TEC building. Aaron reminds everyone that people who go back in time risk coming into contact with a past version of themselves. The same matter cannot occupy the same space at the same time, because if that happens, and if it’s a person accidentally making physical contact with their past version, that person will die, and their body will disappear from the face of the Earth. Later, Max tells Matuzak that Aaron wants to shut down the TEC so no one can stop him from altering the past to his advantage, because Aaron is now running for President of the United States. Aaron’s fading campaign for president is dealt a blow when he is denied federal campaign matching funds. Just before Max wakes up, two men break into his home to kill him, but Max turns the tables and kills the two men who broke in. TEC internal affairs investigator Sarah Fielding questions Max. Max soon learns that Sarah may be on the wrong side in this. Max must travel back and forth in time to bring Aaron down…and when Max goes back to 1994 and finds out what Melissa wanted to tell him 10 years ago, it gives Max incentive to at least try to prevent Melissa’s murder.

The One (2001)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Action | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Jet Li | Carla Gugino | Delroy Lindo | Jason Statham | James Morrison | Dylan Bruno | Richard Steinmetz | Steve Rankin | Tucker Smallwood | Harriet Sansom Harris | David Keats | Dean Norris | Ron Zimmerman | Darin Morgan | Mark Borchardt
Directors: James Wong
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This movie postulates what if there is more than one universe. And that all of these universes are held together by one single stream of energy and that energy is equally distributed to every living in each universe and if one of these beings die, that energy is reallocated equally to each other surviving member. And with each allocation, a person becomes stronger. Now one universe has master the ability of crossing into another universe, and a man named Shulaw who believes that if he can kill all of his counterparts, he will become invincible, but there are those who believe that it might have detrimental effects, so try and stop him. Unfortunately, he just has one more person to kill, Gabe Law, but the officers follow Shulaw but Shulaw has committed some crimes and Gabe is accused and is wanted. But Gabe discovers that he has changed and only wants to kill Shulaw not realizing what could happen.

Event Horizon (1997)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Horror | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Laurence Fishburne | Sam Neill | Kathleen Quinlan | Joely Richardson | Richard T. Jones | Jack Noseworthy | Jason Isaacs | Sean Pertwee | Peter Marinker | Holley Chant | Barclay Wright | Noah Huntley | Robert Jezek | Emily Booth | Teresa May
Directors: Paul W.S. Anderson
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A rescue crew in space comes to investigate and if possible, rescue a government spaceship gone missing for seven years. When they board the ship, they learn that the ship has been somewhere beyond space and brought something back with it that is an unspeakable evil.

Blur (2007)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Drama | Horror | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Salvator Xuereb | Michael Sorvino | Wendy Carter | Jana Kolesarova | Nicole Rayburn | Caroline Barba | Joanne Baron | David Hodges | David Kneeream | Mark McCullough | Ivan Sanchez | Bill Sorvino | Victor Velez | Larissa Kohler | Elyssa Phillips
Directors: Nick Briscoe
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Artist Adrian Jonas toils in preparation for the biggest gallery opening of his career. The creative process takes Adrian deep into the depths of his mind, where he begins to experience premonitions of a terrible fate that awaits his beloved Iliana. Adrian grows to suspect that a mysterious neighbor is the phantom who means to harm his wife. Compounding the danger, a masquerade party planned for that evening allows unwanted guests to mingle unnoticed. As his premonitions begin to come true, Adrian races to interpret his visions while there is still time to cheat fate.

Silent Hill (2006)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Horror | Thriller
Countries: France | Japan | USA
Actors: Radha Mitchell | Sean Bean | Laurie Holden | Deborah Kara Unger | Kim Coates | Tanya Allen | Alice Krige | Jodelle Ferland | Colleen Williams | Ron Gabriel | Eve Crawford | Derek Ritschel | Amanda Hiebert | Maxine Dumont | Christopher Britton
Directors: Christophe Gans
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After the continuous sleep walking episodes of Sharon, the young daughter of Rose Da Silva, the decision is made to take Sharon to the place only mentioned in her restless dreams- Silent Hill. However, the road to Silent Hill is anything but easy to access, and Rose creates a high speed chase between herself and a police officer only to end in a crash for them both. When she wakes up, Sharon has disappeared and Rose is at the entrance to the deserted, dream-like town of Silent Hill. As Rose begins the search for her daughter, she does not realize the terror and mystery surrounding her. Rose is led on a blind search for her beloved daughter, finding herself getting more and more entwined into disturbing past of Silent Hill.

Sound of Thunder, A (2005)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Drama | Fantasy | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: Czech Republic | Germany | USA
Actors: Edward Burns | Armin Rohde | Catherine McCormack | Ben Kingsley | Jemima Rooper | David Oyelowo | Wilfried Hochholdinger | August Zirner | Corey Johnson | Alvin Van Der Kuech | William Armstrong | Nikita Lespinasse | Stuart Ong | Antonin Hausknecht | Anezka Novak
Directors: Peter Hyams
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“A Sound of Thunder” is about a game hunter (Burns) who goes on a time-traveling safari owned and operated by Kingsley’s character to hunt dinosaurs in the prehistoric era. When he kills a butterfly, he unknowingly sets off a chain reaction that will erase humanity from existence. A team of experts must return back in time and replace the butterfly. McCormack is the inventor of the time-traveling computer.

Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow (2004)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Mystery | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: Italy | UK | USA
Actors: Gwyneth Paltrow | Jude Law | Giovanni Ribisi | Michael Gambon | Ling Bai | Omid Djalili | Laurence Olivier | Angelina Jolie | Trevor Baxter | Julian Curry | Peter Law | Jon Rumney | Khan Bonfils | Samta Gyatso | Louis Hilyer
Directors: Kerry Conran
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Set in New York City circa 1939, the film centers on a reporter who notices that the world’s scientists are disappearing. Teamed with a skilled pilot and an adventurous colleague, it’s up to her to thwart the plans of a mad scientist bent on world domination.

Cube Zero (2004)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Drama | Horror | Mystery | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: Canada
Actors: Zachary Bennett | Stephanie Moore | Michael Riley | Martin Roach | David Huband | Mike 'Nug' Nahrgang | Richard McMillan | Terri Hawkes | Tony Munch | Jasmin Geljo | Diego Klattenhoff | Alexia Filippeos | Fernando Cursione | Araxi Arslanian | Joshua Peace
Directors: Ernie Barbarash
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A young man whose job is to watch over the Cube endeavours to rescue an innocent woman trapped in one of its rooms.

Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: France | USA
Actors: Arnold Schwarzenegger | Edward Furlong | Robert Patrick | Earl Boen | Joe Morton | S. Epatha Merkerson | Castulo Guerra | Danny Cooksey | Jenette Goldstein | Xander Berkeley | Linda Hamilton | Ken Gibbel | Robert Winley | Peter Schrum
Directors: James Cameron
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Nearly 10 years have passed since Sarah Connor was targeted for termination by a cyborg from the future. Now her son, John, the future leader of the resistance, is the target for a newer, more deadly terminator. Once again, the resistance has managed to send a protector back to attempt to save John and his mother Sarah.

The Butterfly Effect (2004)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Drama | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Ashton Kutcher | Melora Walters | Amy Smart | Elden Henson | William Lee Scott | John Patrick Amedori | Irene Gorovaia | Kevin Schmidt | Jesse James | Logan Lerman | Sarah Widdows | Jake Kaese | Cameron Bright
Directors: Eric Bress | J. Mackye Gruber
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Evan Treborn grows up in a small town with his single working mom and his friends. He suffers from memory blackouts where he suddenly finds himself somewhere else, confused. Evans’ friends and mom hardly believe him, thinking he makes it up just to get out of trouble, something bad always seems to happen during these blackouts. As Evan grows up he has less of these blackouts until he seems to have recovered. Since the age of seven he has written a diary of his blackout moments so he can remember what happens. One day at college he starts to read one of his old diaries, and suddenly a flashback hits him like a brick!