Sleeper Awakened

WITHOUT FILM, SOMETHING SLEEPS INSIDE US AND SELDOM AWAKENS. THE SLEEPER MUST AWAKEN.

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THE VOID (2016)

August 28, 2017 by Jacob Nelson in 2016, 4, HORROR, SCIENCE FICTION, V
"Unfortunately, the flesh laid upon those ribs is cancerous and devours the good intentions/positive will that is put forward."
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Jeremy Gillespie, Steven Kostanski, Aaron Poole, Kenneth Welsh, Ellen Wong, Daniel Fathers, Kathleen Munroe
2016, 4, HORROR, SCIENCE FICTION, V
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DAEMONIUM: SOLDIER OF THE UNDERWORLD (2015)

May 28, 2017 by Jacob Nelson in 2015, 3, ACTION, D, FANTASY, SCIENCE FICTION, FOREIGN
"There are worse ways to spend a couple hours but I can’t label it “good”."
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Pablo Parés, Caros Angus, Dany Casco
2015, 3, ACTION, D, FANTASY, SCIENCE FICTION, FOREIGN
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ALIEN: COVENANT (2017)

May 22, 2017 by Jacob Nelson in 2017, 5, A, HORROR, SCIENCE FICTION, THRILLER
"Extremely and frustratingly average."
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May 22, 2017 /Jacob Nelson /Source
Ridley Scott, Michael Fassbender, Katherine Waterson, Billy Crudup, Danny McBride, Demian Bichir, Carmen Ejogo, Amy Seimetz, Callie Hernandez, James Franco, Guy Pearce, Noomi Rapace
2017, 5, A, HORROR, SCIENCE FICTION, THRILLER
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GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY VOL. 2 (2017)

May 07, 2017 by Jacob Nelson in 2017, COMIC BOOK, G, SCIENCE FICTION, Oscars 2018, 5
"juvenile and lacking subtlety, but still endearing
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May 07, 2017 /Jacob Nelson /Source
James Gunn, Chris Pratt, Zoe Saldana, Sylvester Stallone, Dave Bautista, Vin Diesel, Bradley Cooper, Michael Rooker, Karen Gillan, Pom Klementieff, Elizabeth Debicki, Kurt Russell
2017, COMIC BOOK, G, SCIENCE FICTION, Oscars 2018, 5
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GHOST IN THE SHELL (2017)

May 07, 2017 by Jacob Nelson in 2017, 4, ACTION, COMIC BOOK, G, SCIENCE FICTION
"So much flavor and beauty, but it asked the wrong questions."
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Rupert Sanders, Scarlett Johansson, Pilou Asbæk, Takeshi Kitano, Juliette Binoche, Michael Pitt, MIchael Wincott
2017, 4, ACTION, COMIC BOOK, G, SCIENCE FICTION
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COLOSSAL (2016)

April 12, 2017 by Jacob Nelson in 2016, 5, C, COMEDY, DRAMA, SCIENCE FICTION
" fun premise that can't sustain its own wait "
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April 12, 2017 /Jacob Nelson /Source
Anne Hathaway, Jason Sudekis, Nacho Vigalondo, Austin Stowell, Tim Blake Nelson
2016, 5, C, COMEDY, DRAMA, SCIENCE FICTION
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GANTZ: O (2016)

March 03, 2017 by Jacob Nelson in 4, ANIMATED, 2016, G, FANTASY, FOREIGN, SCIENCE FICTION
" You get the expected crazy guns, inventive kami monsters, and jiggly leather clad breasts, but little else."
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March 03, 2017 /Jacob Nelson /Source
Yasushi Kawamura, Keiichi Saito
4, ANIMATED, 2016, G, FANTASY, FOREIGN, SCIENCE FICTION
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SPLIT (2016)

February 01, 2017 by Jacob Nelson in 2016, 4, HORROR, SCIENCE FICTION, THRILLER, S
"I did not hate it, I just didn’t feel a whole lot while watching or after, in the story, character, or technical realms."
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February 01, 2017 /Jacob Nelson /Source
M. Night Shyamalan, James McAvoy, Anya Taylor-Joy, Haley Lu Richardson, Sebastian Arcelus
2016, 4, HORROR, SCIENCE FICTION, THRILLER, S
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PASSENGERS (2016)

January 03, 2017 by Jacob Nelson in 2016, 3, DRAMA, P, ROMANCE, SCIENCE FICTION, Oscars 2017
"It was a derelict ship floating in the ether through bad ideas, flimsy logic, and unsympathetic characters."
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January 03, 2017 /Jacob Nelson /Source
Morten Tyldum, Jennifer Lawrence, Chris Pratt, Michael Sheen, Laurence Fishburne
2016, 3, DRAMA, P, ROMANCE, SCIENCE FICTION, Oscars 2017
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ASSASSIN'S CREED (2016)

January 03, 2017 by Jacob Nelson in 2, 2016, A, ACTION, SCIENCE FICTION
"None of this works or makes sense, even for a bad video game adaptation"
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Justin Kurzel, Michael Fassbender, Marion Cotillard, Jeremy Irons, Brendan Gleeson, Charlotte Rampling, Michael Kenneth Williams, Callum Turner
2, 2016, A, ACTION, SCIENCE FICTION
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TRAIN TO BUSAN (2016)

December 27, 2016 by Jacob Nelson in 2016, 5, ACTION, SCIENCE FICTION, T, HORROR, ZOMBIE
"Quick twitch zombie savagery trapped in the confines (or coffins) of speeding rail cars!"
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December 27, 2016 /Jacob Nelson /Source
Sang-ho Yeon, Yoo Gong, Su-an Kim, Yu-mi Jung, Dong-seok Ma
2016, 5, ACTION, SCIENCE FICTION, T, HORROR, ZOMBIE
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ROGUE ONE: A STAR WARS STORY (2016)

December 20, 2016 by Jacob Nelson in 2016, 5, ACTION, R, SCIENCE FICTION, Oscars 2017
The love has gone, only to be replaced by “meh… it’s fine”
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December 20, 2016 /Jacob Nelson /Source
Gareth Edwards, Felicity Jones, Diego Luna, Alan Tudyk, Donnie Yen, Ben Mendelsohn, Forest Whitaker, Mads Mikkelsen, Wen Jiang, Jimmy Smits, Riz Ahmed
2016, 5, ACTION, R, SCIENCE FICTION, Oscars 2017
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COHERENCE (2013)

November 16, 2016 by Jacob Nelson in 2013, 5, C, DRAMA, SCIENCE FICTION, THRILLER
"The relationships, ins & outs, and skittering around the weaving dimensional schema are provocative."
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November 16, 2016 /Jacob Nelson /Source
James Ward Byrkit, Emily Baldoni, Maury Sterling, Nicholas Brendon
2013, 5, C, DRAMA, SCIENCE FICTION, THRILLER
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ARRIVAL (2016)

November 14, 2016 by Jacob Nelson in 2016, 8, A, DRAMA, SCIENCE FICTION, Oscars 2017
"A methodical puzzle that tugs at our emotions, thrills us with possibility, and astutely & poignantly pokes at the soft underbelly of humanities lackings."
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November 14, 2016 /Jacob Nelson /Source
Denis Villeneuve, Amy Adams, Jeremy Renner, Forest Whitaker, Michael Stuhlbarg
2016, 8, A, DRAMA, SCIENCE FICTION, Oscars 2017
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STAR TREK: BEYOND (2016)

October 07, 2016 by Jacob Nelson in 2016, 5, ACTION, S, SCIENCE FICTION, Oscars 2017
"Felt a lot like an episode of one of the series, both to its benefit and its detriment."
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October 07, 2016 /Jacob Nelson /Source
Justin Lin, Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto, Karl Urban, Zoe Saldana, Simon Pegg, John Cho, Anton Yelchin, Idris Elba, Sofia Boutella
2016, 5, ACTION, S, SCIENCE FICTION, Oscars 2017
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INDEPENDENCE DAY: RESURGENCE (2016)

August 16, 2016 by Jacob Nelson in 2, 2016, ACTION, I, SCIENCE FICTION, DISASTER
"Shiny foil wrapped around the processed defecate of the original"
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August 16, 2016 /Jacob Nelson /Source
Roland Emmerich, Liam Hemsworth, Jeff Goldblum, Bill Pullman, William Fichtner, Judd Hirsch, Brent Spiner, Patrick St. Esprit, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Vivica A. Fox
2, 2016, ACTION, I, SCIENCE FICTION, DISASTER
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PURGE: ELECTION YEAR (2016)

August 11, 2016 by Jacob Nelson in 2016, 4, ACTION, HORROR, P, SCIENCE FICTION
"Good? Of course not. It's a Purge film. But it maintains a mediocre level of entertainment"
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August 11, 2016 /Jacob Nelson /Source
James DeMonaco, Frank Grillo, Elizabeth Mitchell, Mykelti Williamson, Betty Gabriel
2016, 4, ACTION, HORROR, P, SCIENCE FICTION
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GHOSTBUSTERS (2016)

July 17, 2016 by Jacob Nelson in 2016, 3, ACTION, COMEDY, G, SCIENCE FICTION
" Most pointedly, it was neither funny nor scary, which seems like the whole point of the making this, I thought."
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July 17, 2016 /Jacob Nelson /Source
Paul Feig, Kristen Wiig, Melissa McCarthy, Kate McKinnon, Charles Dance, Neil Casey, Leslie Jones, Chris Hemsworth, Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Michael Kenneth Williams, Ernie Hudson, Sigourney Weaver, Andy Garcia, Cecily Strong, Zach Woods
2016, 3, ACTION, COMEDY, G, SCIENCE FICTION

LET US PREY (2014)

June 29, 2016 by Jacob Nelson in 2014, 4, HORROR, L, SCIENCE FICTION, FOREIGN
"lacked in too many key areas to an egregious degree"
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June 29, 2016 /Jacob Nelson /Source
Brian O'Malley, Liam Cunningham, Pollyanna McIntosh, Douglas Russell
2014, 4, HORROR, L, SCIENCE FICTION, FOREIGN
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MIDNIGHT SPECIAL (2016)

April 22, 2016 by Jacob Nelson in 2016, 7, DRAMA, M, SCIENCE FICTION
"A masterful mixture of Close Encounters/Starman with The Fugitive and an indie familial drama (Shotgun Stories anyone?)"
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April 22, 2016 /Jacob Nelson /Source
Jeff Nichols, Michael Shannon, Joel Edgerton, Kirsten Dunst, Adam Driver, Sam Shepard
2016, 7, DRAMA, M, SCIENCE FICTION
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