Posts Tagged ‘asteroid’

Moon Zero Two (1969)

Friday, February 27th, 2009
Genres: Crime | Sci-Fi | Western
Countries: UK
Actors: Olson, James | Schell, Catherine | Mitchell, Warren | Corri, Adrienne | Levy, Ori | Foster, Dudley | Bresslaw, Bernard | McCallum, Neil | Blanshard, Joby | Ripper, Michael | Tayman, Robert | Kydd, Sam | Bonnard, Keith | Britt, Leo | Cleveland, Carol
Directors: Baker, Roy Ward
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A space salvage expert and his partner become involved with a group of criminals intent on hijacking a small asteroid made of sapphire and crashing it into the moon for later recovery. The only place that they can bring the asteroid down without drawing attention to themselves is a far side mining claim. But first they must dispose of the miner. Little known to them, however, is the fact that the miners sister has hired the same salvage team to help her locate her missing brother.

Last Starfighter, The (1984)

Tuesday, December 30th, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Family | Sci-Fi
Countries: USA
Actors: Guest, Lance | Dan O'Herlihy | Stewart, Catherine Mary | Bosson, Barbara | Snow, Norman | Preston, Robert | Hebert, Chris | O'Leary, John | McDaniel, George | Nelson, Charlene | Maio, John | Starr, Robert | Berry, Al | Dunlop, Scott
Directors: Castle, Nick
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This is the story of a videogaming boy, named Alex Rogan who lives in a remote trailer court where his mother is manager and everyone is like a big extended family. Meanwhile, Alex becomes the top player of Starfighter, a stand-up arcade game where the player defends “the frontier” from “Xur and the Kodan armada” in a space battle. After achieving his best score, he is approached by the game’s inventor, Centauri. Stepping into Centauri’s vehicle, he is seemingly doomed to stay at his trailer park home all in his life, he finds himself recruited as a gunner for an alien defense force when Centauri is a disguised alien who whisks him off to another planet.

Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980)

Friday, March 14th, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Fantasy | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Hamill, Mark | Ford, Harrison | Fisher, Carrie | Williams, Billy Dee | Daniels, Anthony | Prowse, David | Mayhew, Peter | Baker, Kenny | Oz, Frank | Guinness, Alec | Bulloch, Jeremy | Hollis, John | Purvis, Jack | Webb, Des | Revill, Clive
Directors: Kershner, Irvin
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Fleeing the evil Galactic Empire, the rebels abandon their new base on Hoth. Princess Leia, Han Solo and the droids R2-D2 and C-3P0 escape in the damaged Millenium Falcon, but are later captured by Lord Darth Vader on Bespin. Skywalker, meanwhile, follows Ben Kenobi’s posthumous command and receives Jedi training by Yoda on Dagobah. Will Skywalker manage to rescue his friends from the dark lord?

Airplane II: The Sequel (1982)

Saturday, May 5th, 2007
Genres: Comedy | Sci-Fi
Countries: USA
Actors: Paymer, David | Hays, Robert | Hagerty, Julie | Bridges, Lloyd | Everett, Chad | Graves, Peter | Connors, Chuck | Shatner, William | Burr, Raymond | Vernon, John | Stucker, Stephen | McCord, Kent | Watson Jr., James A. | Dehner, John | Torn, Rip | Bono, Sonny
Directors: Finkleman, Ken
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The hero of an unlikely airplane disaster must overcome his own inadequacies, improbable accidents and his former girlfriend in order to save a space shuttle from destruction in this spoof sequel of the disaster parody Airplane!

Starship Troopers (1997)

Friday, May 4th, 2007
Genres: Action | Adventure | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Van Dien, Casper | Meyer, Dina | Richards, Denise | Busey, Jake | Harris, Neil Patrick | Brown, Clancy | Gilliam, Seth | Muldoon, Patrick | Ironside, Michael | McClanahan, Rue | Bell, Marshall | Bruskotter, Eric | Levin, Matt | Lindsley, Blake | Ruivivar, Anthony
Directors: Verhoeven, Paul
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In the distant future high school kids are encouraged to become citizens by joining the military. What they don’t know is that they’ll soon be engaged in a full scale war against a planet of alien insects. The fight is on to ensure the safety of humanity.

Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones (2002)

Wednesday, March 28th, 2007
Genres: Action | Adventure | Fantasy | Mystery | Romance | Sci-Fi
Countries: USA
Actors: McGregor, Ewan | Portman, Natalie | Christensen, Hayden | Lee, Christopher | Jackson, Samuel L. | Oz, Frank | McDiarmid, Ian | August, Pernilla | Morrison, Temuera | Smits, Jimmy | Logan, Daniel | Thompson, Jack | Walsman, Leeanna | Best, Ahmed | Byrne, Rose
Directors: Lucas, George
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Ten years after the ‘Phantom Menace’ threatened the planet Naboo, Padmé Amidala is now a Senator representing her homeworld. A faction of political separatists, led by Count Dooku, attempts to assassinate her. There aren’t enough Jedi to defend the Republic against the threat, so Chancellor Palpatine enlists the aid of Jango Fett, who promises that his army of clones will handle the situation. Meanwhile, Obi-Wan Kenobi continues to train the young Jedi Anakin Skywalker, who fears that the Jedi code will forbid his growing romance with Amidala…

Evolution (2001)

Thursday, February 15th, 2007
Genres: Comedy | Sci-Fi
Countries: USA
Actors: Duchovny, David | Moore, Julianne | Jones, Orlando | Scott, Seann William | Levine, Ted | Suplee, Ethan | Bower, Michael | Kilbane, Pat | Burrell, Ty | Aykroyd, Dan | Towne, Katharine | Itzin, Gregory | Clark, Ashley | Wolff, Michelle | Silverman, Sarah
Directors: Reitman, Ivan
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Glen Canyon, Arizona, the present day. Wayne, practising at night in the desert for his upcoming fireman’s exam, witnesses the impact of a meteorite. The next day, biology teacher Dr. Ira Kane and geology teacher Harry Block from Glen Canyon Community College manage to get to the meteorite, which is stuck in the ground at the bottom of a cave. By taking a sample, they discover a slimy blue fluid coming out of the meteorite. A little later, Ira Kane finds out that myriads of single-celled life-forms dwell in the fluid, evolve at an incredible rate, even while he’s watching. What first seems like a sure ticket to Sweden for the Nobel Prize soon develops into a nightmare: By evolving and adapting at that unbelievably fast rate, the Aliens start spreading out, and the Military comes in. Now it all comes down to what Darwin so rightfully stated: Survival of the fittest. And no good idea in sight…

Armageddon (1998)

Wednesday, February 14th, 2007
Genres: Action | Drama | Romance | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Willis, Bruce | Thornton, Billy Bob | Affleck, Ben | Tyler, Liv | Patton, Will | Buscemi, Steve | Fichtner, William | Wilson, Owen | Duncan, Michael Clarke | Stormare, Peter | Campbell, Ken Hudson | Steen, Jessica | David, Keith | Ellis, Chris | Isaacs, Jason
Directors: Bay, Michael
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Due to a shuttle’s unfortunate demise in outer space, NASA becomes aware of a doomsday asteroid that is on a collision course with Earth. It seems that the only way to knock it off course is to drill into its surface and detonate a nuclear weapon. But as NASA’s under-funded yet resourceful team train the world’s best drillers for the job, the social order of the world begins to break down as the information reaches the public and hysteria results. As high-ranking officials play politics with the effort, the drilling team all faces deep personal issues which may jeopardize humanity’s last chance…