NativeGuilt's Movie Reviews

A linguist works with the military to communicate with alien lifeforms after twelve mysterious spacecraft appear around the world. Directed:   Denis Villeneuve ( Blade Runner: 2049, Dune: Part I & II, Sicario ) Original Novel by:   Ted Chiang ( Story of Your Life ) Writer:   Eric Heisserer ( Bird Box ) Original Score:   Jóhann Jóhannsson (Sicario, The Theory of Everything, Prisoners) Cinematographer:   Bradford Young ( When They See Us, Solo: A Star Wars Story, Selma ) Editor:   Joe Walker ( Dune: Part I & II, Blade Runner: 2049, Sicario, 12 Years a Slave ) Production Designer:  Patrice Vermette  ( Dune: Part I & II, Vice, Sicario, Prisoners ) Genre:   Drama, Sci-Fi MPAA Rating:   PG-13 for brief strong language Staring:        Amy Adams   as Louise Banks      Jeremy Renner  as Ian Donnelly      Forest Whitaker  as Colonel Weber Plot I used to think this was the...

REPLICANTS  are bioengineered humans. Designed by Tyrell Corporation for use off-world. Their enhanced strength made them ideal slave labor.   After a series of violent rebellions, their manufacture became prohibited and Tyrell Corp went bankrupt.   The collapse of ecosystems in the mid 2020s led to the rise of industrialist Niander Wallace, whose mastery of synthetic farming averted famine.   Wallace acquired the remains of Tyrell corp and created a new line of replicants who obey.   Many older model replicants — Nexus 8s with open-ended lifespans — survived. They are hunted down and 'retired'.   Those that hunt them still go by the name...   BLADE RUNNER Have you ever been in an institution? Cells. Directed:   Denis Villeneuve  (Prisoners,  Arrival, Sicario, Dune & Dune: Part 2 ) Inspired by:   Philip K. Dick ( Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? ) Writers:   Hampton Fancher  (Blade Runner) & Michael Green (Loga...

Early in the 21st Century, THE TYRELL CORPORATION advanced robot evolution into the NEXUS phase - a being virtually identical to a human - known as a Replicant . The NEXUS 6 Replicants were superior in strength and agility, and at least equal in intelligence, to the genetic engineers who created them. Replicants were used Off-World as slave labor, in the hazardous exploration and colonization of other planets. After a bloody mutiny by a NEXUS 6 combat team in an Off-World colony, Replicants were declared illegal on earth - under penalty of death. Special police squads - BLADE RUNNER UNITS - had orders to shoot to kill, upon detection, any trespassing Replicant. This was not called execution. It was called retirement. Directed:   Ridley Scott  ( The Martian, Gladiator, Alien, American Gangster, Kingdom of Heaven, Black Hawk Down, & so much more ) Original Novel by:   Philip K. Dick ( Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep ) Writers:   Hampton Fancher & David Peop...