![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The setting of “U” feels like the culmination of Hosoda’s career-long fascination with the internet and social media, a dazzling unreal metropolis populated by colorful avatars and gigantic whales with speakers encrusted in their backs. When one of Belle’s concerts is disrupted by a monstrous user known only as “Dragon,” Suzu sets out to learn more about this mysterious person with whom she can’t help but feel she shares a deep and profound connection. The film follows Suzu, a reserved and quiet teenage girl mourning the loss of her mother who retreats into the immersive online world of “U,” inadvertently becoming a famous pop idol by the name of Belle. Mamoru Hosoda ( Wolf Children, Summer Wars) returns with yet another animated sci-fi fantasy in the form of Belle. ArrivalĬast: Kaho Nakamura, Ryō Narita, Shōta Sometani It is also available to rent on Amazon, Apple, and Vudu. If you’re looking for a thoughtful, frightening, and most of all bizarre sci-fi drama with strange creatures and even stranger secrets, Annihilation is the answer.Īnnihilation is available to stream on Netflix. Searching for answers to her husband’s inexplicable disappearance, Lena is confronted with a world of fantastical horrors beyond her wildest fears and forced to confront disturbing questions about herself and humanity’s own future.Įxploring the nature of depression and self-destruction, Annihilation has one of the most memorable final acts in any sci-fi movie of the 2010s, thanks to wonderfully disturbing performance by actor and recurring Garland collaborator, Sonoya Mizuno. Natalie Portman stars as Lena, a biology professor who agrees to embark on an expedition into the Shimmer, an anomalous zone in the Western panhandle of Florida filled with plants and creatures mutated by the radiation of a meteor strike. AnnihilationĬast: Natalie Portman, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Tessa ThompsonĪlex Garland’s adaptation of Jeff VanderMeer’s eco-horror novel is one of the director’s better works (though Ex Machina still reigns supreme, sorry). While the initial premise of 65 is way more convoluted than it has any reason to be, Beck and Woods’ film is serviceably entertaining sci-fi romp all in all, anchored by an unsurprisingly strong lead performance by Driver, cool action sequences, and cool alien technology.Ħ5 is available to stream on Netflix. Anyway, in Scott Beck and Bryan Woods’ sci-fi action debut, the answer is an ancient alien astronaut named Mills (Adam Driver) who crash-landed on Earth 65 million years ago after taking a job to pay for his daughter’s medical treatment.Īfter rescuing Koa (Ariana Greenblatt), the only other survivor of the crash, Mills is forced to fight his way through a myriad of prehistoric predators in order to reach his ship’s escape pods - the sole remaining means of returning back to his home world - before that big hulking meteor I mentioned earlier strikes the planet. It’s kinda like the question of who really built the pyramids, even though the answer is obviously and unfortunately Egyptian slave labor. It’s a question as old as archaeology itself: What really killed the dinosaurs? Y’know, aside from the ginormous meteor that struck the site of what is now known as the Yucatán Peninsula in Mexico. ![]()
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