A young African-American visits his white girlfriend's parents for the weekend, where his simmering uneasiness about their reception of him eventually reaches a boiling point.
Director:
Jordan Peele
Stars:
Daniel Kaluuya,
Allison Williams,
Bradley Whitford
In the summer of 1989, a group of bullied kids band together to destroy a shape-shifting monster, which disguises itself as a clown and preys on the children of Derry, their small Maine town.
Director:
Andy Muschietti
Stars:
Bill Skarsgård,
Jaeden Martell,
Finn Wolfhard
Three girls are kidnapped by a man with a diagnosed 23 distinct personalities. They must try to escape before the apparent emergence of a frightful new 24th.
Director:
M. Night Shyamalan
Stars:
James McAvoy,
Anya Taylor-Joy,
Haley Lu Richardson
After a space merchant vessel perceives an unknown transmission as a distress call, its landing on the source moon finds one of the crew attacked by a mysterious lifeform, and they soon realize that its life cycle has merely begun.
A shy student trying to reach his family in Ohio, a gun-toting tough guy trying to find the last Twinkie, and a pair of sisters trying to get to an amusement park join forces to travel across a zombie-filled America.
Director:
Ruben Fleischer
Stars:
Jesse Eisenberg,
Emma Stone,
Woody Harrelson
A young programmer is selected to participate in a ground-breaking experiment in synthetic intelligence by evaluating the human qualities of a highly advanced humanoid A.I.
Director:
Alex Garland
Stars:
Alicia Vikander,
Domhnall Gleeson,
Oscar Isaac
A biologist's husband disappears. She puts her name forward for an expedition into an environmental disaster zone, but does not find what she's expecting. The expedition team is made up of the biologist, an anthropologist, a psychologist, a surveyor, and a linguist.
Natalie Portman had stated earlier in her career that she'd never be in a horror movie. She changed her mind to appear in Black Swan (2010) and this film as she really wanted to work with the filmmakers. Scheduling conflicts prevented her from appearing in Pride and Prejudice and Zombies (2016), which she auditioned for and won. See more »
Goofs
This one is a character error and also a continuity error. During a scene outside the village house where in a previous scene a bear had attacked the group, Natalie Portman and one of the crew members are talking together. The crew member is supposed to have damaged arms from self inflicted wounds and thus wearing long sleeves all the time, but in this scene she has her arms revealed and they are clean of injury. In the next scene, the wounds are rendered and flowers are blooming out of them. See more »
Quotes
[first lines]
Lomax:
What did you eat? You had rations for two weeks. You were inside for nearly four months.
Lena:
I don't remember eating.
Lomax:
How long did you think you were inside?
Lena:
Days. Maybe weeks.
Lomax:
What happened to Josie Radek?
Lena:
...I don't know.
Lomax:
What about Sheppard? Thorensen?
Lena:
Dead.
Lomax:
Ventress?
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The Mark (Interlude)
Performed by Moderat
Words and Music by Gernot Bronsert, Sebastian Szary and Apparat (as Sascha Ring)
Licensed courtesy of Sony/ATV Music Publishing Limited
Published by Monkeytown Music Gmbh / Sony/ ATV Music Publishing Limited, Random Noize Musick, Budde Music See more »
The film reveals a transformation from sense of technology to sense of rite. However, Alex Garland, the director of the film, used a sly ending to keep the script from deviating from the traditional genre film too far.
Therefore, whether the expression of instinct self-destructive tendencies of human being, or the discussions of meaningless biogenesis, are both abandoned after an uncertain doubt.
As for the filming technical level, from cinematography to OST, and the performance of Natalie Portman, all this parts are quite brilliant. In addition, the mixture of cruel plot and holy atmosphere is unique and unforgettable.
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The film reveals a transformation from sense of technology to sense of rite. However, Alex Garland, the director of the film, used a sly ending to keep the script from deviating from the traditional genre film too far. Therefore, whether the expression of instinct self-destructive tendencies of human being, or the discussions of meaningless biogenesis, are both abandoned after an uncertain doubt. As for the filming technical level, from cinematography to OST, and the performance of Natalie Portman, all this parts are quite brilliant. In addition, the mixture of cruel plot and holy atmosphere is unique and unforgettable.