- The First Teaser for American Horror Story: Cult Tells Us Nothing, But It Sure Is Full of Creepy-Ass Clowns.
- Directed by Roland Emmerich. With Will Smith, Bill Pullman, Jeff Goldblum, Mary McDonnell. The aliens are coming and their goal is to invade and destroy Earth.
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Top 1. 0 Best Action Movies Of 2. Guide inc Netflix. Boom. Let’s take a look at the biggest and best action movies of 2. Top 2. 0 countdown.
It’s another huge year for superhero movies (. I’ll update titles with a Netflix icon when they become available to watch there.
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon: Sword Of Destiny. Starring: Donnie Yen, Michelle Yeoh, Harry Shum, Jr. Jason Scott Lee. Director: Woo- ping Yuen. Released: February 2. U. S. Dates)A story of lost love, young love, a legendary sword and one last opportunity at redemption set against an epic martial arts battle which will decide the fate of the Martial World. Sequel to the Ang Lee- directed 2.
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Best Foreign Language Film at the Oscars. Michelle Yeoh reprises her role as Yu Shu- Lien, with Donnie Yen (. Lee is not involved in this adaptation of the fifth and final book in the Crane- Iron Pentalogy (.
Instead it’s directed by renowned martial arts choreographer (. The veteran screenwriter brought us . It seems they’ve dropped the Mandarin Chinese and are filming entirely in English. The project represents a distribution landmark as it was the first movie to be funded by Netflix. It will premiere on there and be available in IMAX theaters the same day.
Normal cinemas have refused to show it as they’re worried about this new business model. Taken on its own, the movie feels quite unnecessary but if you’ve missed the high- wire sword fighting, this has got some talent behind it. Ben Hur. Starring: Jack Huston, Morgan Freeman, Toby Kebbell, Rodrigo Santoro. Director: Timur Bekmambetov. Released: February 2. Falsely accused nobleman Judah Ben- Hur (Huston), a Palestinian Jew, survives years of slavery in the Roman Empire hoping to take vengeance on his best friend (Kebbell) who betrayed him, and rescue his suffering family.
An inspirational encounter with Jesus (Brazilian Rodrigo Santoro) changes his life, before he finally meets his rival in a famous and deadly chariot race. Relative unknown Jack Huston was in . The 1. 95. 9 version of . It’s a classic no one thought they’d dare to remake (what next, . It is timeless, so every new generation wants to go back to it in order to adapt it for the new world.” This has no hope of living up to the ’5. London Has Fallen. Starring: Gerard Butler, Aaron Eckhart, Morgan Freeman, Mehdi Dehbi.
Director: Babak Najafi. Released: March 4, 2. In London the British Prime Minister has passed away under mysterious circumstances. His funeral is a must- attend event for leaders of the Western world. But what starts out as the most protected event on Earth turns into a deadly plot to kill the world’s most powerful leaders and unleash a terrifying vision of the future. Only three people have any hope of stopping it: the U.
S. President (Aaron Eckhart), his formidable Secret Service head (Gerard Butler), and an English MI- 6 agent (Charlotte Riley, . Sequel to 2. 01. 3’s . The terrific supporting cast of Morgan Freeman (as Vice President), Angela Bassett (Director of Secret Service), Robert Forster (US Army General), and Melissa Leo (Secretary of Defense) all return, while Jackie Earle Haley joins as Deputy Chief. This time, after Fuqua felt he didn’t have the London experience to make an authentic film set there, duties have been passed to a European director of little action stature (although . The notion of the U.
S. President and his Secret Service agent saving London for the British is dancing on jingoistic ground, and it’s easy to underestimate Butler’s action- thriller chops after a sea of lame romantic- comedies, but actually his track record in the genre is good. Fingers crossed. 1. The Legend Of Tarzan. Starring: Alexander Skarsg. Now, he has been invited back to the Congo to serve as a trade emissary of Parliament, unaware that he is a pawn in a deadly convergence of greed and revenge, masterminded by the a corrupt Belgian Captain (Waltz). Djimon Hounsou plays the local African chief who opposes the Captain, and Samuel L. Jackson is a U. S.
Civil War vet who helps Tarzan. Despite having the capable director of the last four Harry Potter movies, it represents perhaps the biggest gamble of the summer with its $1. Its barely- known leading man doesn’t seem like a star in the making, and the brand is just not as appealing as, say, . But while the financials are likely to be the big story, at least the money is there on screen, with an ambitious plethora of epic vistas and grand- scale period action- adventure, all with a more adult- orientated, darker tone than has typically been the case with the character. Bastille Day (aka The Take)Starring: Idris Elba, Richard Madden, Charlotte Le Bon, Eriq Ebouaney. Director: James Watkins.
Released: November 1. Bastille Day (which is French National Day on July 1. CIA agent (Elba) enlisting a young artist/occasional pickpocket (Madden, .
The British director is switching to the action genre after chillers . It feels like something of a Bond audition for him. Action Movies 2. 01. Place) > Action Movies 2.
Radium Age Sci- Fi: 1. Best – Hi. Lobrow. MORE LIT LISTS: 5. Best Scientific Romances (1. The 1. 90. 4–3. 3 era is one in which sf fans and historians have never been particularly interested. At first, I called this neglected period the Pre- Golden Age, but later I coined the phrase Radium Age — a moniker which I’ve popularized by writing about the era for the scientific journal Nature, Boing Boing, and elsewhere; and by reissuing 1.
Hi. Lo. Books’s purpose- built Radium Age Science Fiction imprint. At io. 9, I published a short series of semi- exhaustive posts on the following topics: Radium Age Supermen .
At the time, I took notes for subsequent posts on, e. Air Battles, Antigravity, Interplanetary Voyages, Lost Worlds, Mad Scientists, Time Travel, and Utopias. I collected a roomful of books by Olaf Stapledon, William Hope Hodgson, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Sax Rohmer, Karel . Lovecraft, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Yevgeny Zamyatin, Rudyard Kipling, Jack London, Arthur Conan Doyle, David Lindsay, John Taine, Jack Williamson, S. Fowler Wright, Gustave Le Rouge, A. Merritt, Murray Leinster, Jean de La Hire, Maurice Renard, Philip Wylie, Aldous Huxley, and many less well- known science fiction authors from the time. However, since then I’ve moved onto other projects.
Throughout 2. 01. One Cut One Life Poster (2015) Movie Photo. I did exactly that.
Scroll down, to see the full list. Please let me know what 1. I’ve overlooked! And, if you’d like to support the cause, please visit the Hi. Lo. Books homepage; you’ll find Amazon links for all of our Radium Age series.
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Bleiler’s Science- Fiction: The Early Years (1. JOSH GLENNSOME PRE- RADIUM AGE TITLESRADIUM AGE SCI- FI: THE OUGHTS (1.
RADIUM AGE SCI- FI: THE TEENS (1. RADIUM AGE SCI- FI: THE TWENTIES (1.
SOME POST- RADIUM AGE TITLES***SOME PRE- RADIUM AGE TITLESThe following classics from the science fiction genre’s Scientific Romance (1. Jules Verne’s Journey to the Center of the Earth (1. Jules Verne’s From the Earth to the Moon (1. Edward Everett Hale’s The Brick Moon (1. Jules Verne’s Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (1. Edward Bulwer- Lytton’s Vril, the Power of the Coming Race (1.
Samuel Butler’s Erewhon (1. Jules Verne’s The Mysterious Island (1. Mary E. Bradley Lane’s Mizora: World of Women (1. Walter Besant’s The Revolt of Man (1.
Albert Robida’s Le Vingti. Abbott’s Flatland (1. Richard Jeffries’s After London (1. W. H. Hudson’s A Crystal Age (1.
Edward Bellamy’s Looking Backward (1. Joseph Shield Nicholson’s Thoth (1. Robert Louis Stevenson’s Dr. Jeckyll and Mr. Hyde (1. Walter Besant’s The Inner House (1. William Morris’s News from Nowhere (1.
Camille Flammarion’s La Fin du Monde (1. H. G. Wells’s The Time Machine (1. Percival Lowell’s Mars (1. Wells’s The Island of Doctor Moreau (1. H. G. Wells’s The Invisible Man (1.
H. G. Wells’s The War of the Worlds (1. H. G. Wells’s When the Sleeper Wakes (1. H. G. Wells’s The First Men in the Moon (1. M. P. Shiel’s The Purple Cloud (1. RADIUM AGE SCI- FI: THE OUGHTS (1. The Oughts are a kind of interregnum period between sci- fi’s Scientific Romance era (1. Radium Age. Verne, Wells, Kipling, Arnold, Baum and some others who published science fiction from 1.
Chesterton’s The Napoleon of Notting Hill (1. In an alternative- history version of England (it’s set in 1. When Auberon Quin, a man who aspires to live life like a medieval adventure, becomes king, he mandates that each of London’s neighborhoods become an independent state, complete with unique local costumes. Everyone goes along with the conceit until young Adam Wayne, a born military tactician, takes the game too seriously.
War rages throughout the city — fought with sword and halberd. Fun fact: Irish revolutionary leader Michael Collins is known to have admired The Napoleon of Notting Hill. H. G. Wells’s The Food of the Gods (1. Does The Food of the Gods belong on a list of the 1. Best Radium Age Science Fiction novels? I originally determined that the genre’s pioneering Scientific Romance era ended in 1. H. G. Wells lost his touch.
The First Men in the Moon (1. Wells’s last terrific sf novel; The Food of the Gods is his first un- terrific one.
Un- terrific Wells is still pretty damn good. A chemical intended to make chickens grow larger accidentally causes plants, wasps, earwigs, and rats to grow as well. Fun fact: The 1. 97. Marvel Classics Comics edition of the story is great.
Jules Verne’s The Master of the World (1. In this sequel to Verne’s 1.
Robur the Conqueror, FBI(- ish) Chief Inspector Strock arrives in North Carolina to investigate what appears to be an imminent volcanic eruption. Meanwhile, a supercar is spotting traveling at 1.
New England. The brilliant inventor Robur is back, and this time he has invented a ten- meter long multi- purpose vehicle, The Terror. Determined to have it for military purposes, the feds first attempt to buy the machine, then attack Robur. With a captive Strock aboard, Robur escapes in The Terror over Niagara Falls, then challenges God by heading into a Caribbean thunderstorm. Fun fact: Is this one of Verne’s best novels? I include it here to demonstrate the context from which Radium Age science fiction emerged.
Here we see one of the genre’s pioneers, at the end of his career (and life), questioning man’s ability to use science and technology to benefit humankind. Rokeya Sakhawat Hussain’s Sultana’s Dream (1. Originally published in English in The Indian Ladies Magazine of Madras, Hussain’s story depicts a peaceful, crime- free utopia in which women run everything and men are secluded — i. What’s more, the women use advanced technology that makes possible laborless farming and flying cars; they have solved the problem of solar energy, and control the weather. Most impressively, perhaps: The workday is two hours long, since men used to waste six hours of each day in smoking! Fun fact: One of the first examples of feminist science fiction. The author was a Muslim feminist, writer, and social reformer who lived in British India.
Rudyard Kipling’s With the Night Mail (1. Kipling’s novella follows the exploits of an intercontinental mail dirigible battling the perfect storm. Between London and Quebec we learn that a planet- wide Aerial Board of Control (A. B. C.) now enforces a technocratic system of command and control not only in the skies but in world affairs. It’s an impressively nuanced portrait of a future in which dirigibles — not airplanes — have triumphed.
Kipling goes so far as to include excerpts from the Aerial Board of Control Bulletin, complete with letters to the editor, book reviews, and advertisements. Both titles have been reissued by Hi.
Lo. Books, with an Introduction by Matthew De Abaitua and an Afterword by Bruce Sterling. Edwin Lester Arnold’s Lieut. Gullivar Jones: His Vacation (1.
In this satirical, nightmarish, episodic update of Gulliver’s Travels, Lieut. Gullivar Jones, an arrogant US Naval officer, travels to Mars (a jungle planet, not the desert planet of other Mars sci- fi) via magic carpet. There, he gains super strength and telepathic powers, and proceeds to stumble into and out of trouble.
There is a war brewing between the beautiful, innocent, sophisticated Hither Folk and the barbaric, industrious Thither Folk; Gullivar fails to prevent the war, and flees back to Earth. He also attempts to claim a vast tract of Mars for himself, travels down a river of death, fails to outwit or defeat his enemies, and doesn’t win the hand of beautiful Princess Heru. Fun fact: Arnold was best known in his own time for the 1. The Wonderful Adventures of Phra the Phoenician.
Note that Edgar Rice Burroughs’s first John Carter novel was likely inspired by Lieut. Gullivar Jones; and the flying cities of Flash Gordon and other, later sci- fi, find their precusor here, in the city of Laputa. Reissued by Bison Frontiers of Imagination. Gregory Casparian’s An Anglo- American Alliance (1. In 1. 96. 0, Aurora Cunningham, daughter of Great Britain’s Secretary of Foreign Affairs, and Margaret Mac.