The 32Nd Annual Science Fiction Marathon
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ships, and disrupts life in the vortex. 7:00pm The Chronicles of Riddick (2004) Rated R (119 min.) Director: David Twohy With Vin Diesel, Colm Feore, Thandie Newton Riddick, now a hunted man, finds himself in the middle of two opposing forces in a major crusade. Colm Feore plays Lord Marshal, a warrior priest who is the leader of a sect that is waging the tenth and perhaps final crusade 500 years in the future. Judi Dench is Aereon, an ambassador from the Elemental race. She is an ethereal being who helps Riddick unearth his origins. 9:00pm Dr. Cyclops (1940) No rating (76 min.) Director: Ernest B. Schoedsack With Albert Dekker, Thomas Coley, Janice Logan Four explorers are summoned to Peru by the brilliant physicist Dr Thorkel. They dis- cover a rich source of radium and a half-mad Thorkel who shrinks them down to one- fifth their normal siz when they threaten to stop his unorthodox experimentation. 10:30pm Pi (1998) Rated R (84 min.) Director: Darren Aronofsky With Sean Gullette, Mark Margolis, Ben Shenkman Max is a genius mathematician who's built a supercomputer at home that provides The CWRU Film Society something that can be understood as a key for understanding all existence. Representa- tives both from a Hasidic cabalistic sect and high-powered Wall Street firm hear of that Presents secret and attempt to seduce him. The 32nd Annual 12:00am X-Men: The Last Stand (2006) Science Fiction Rated PG-13 (104 min.) Director: Brett Ratner With Hugh Jackman, Halle Berry, Ian McKellen Marathon The X-Men, mutant heroes sworn to defend a world that hates and fears them, are back! This time, with the help of new recruits The Beast and Angel, they must face evolution itself in the form of their former teammate, Jean Grey. Possessed with the cosmic power Friday, January 19—Saturday, January 20, 2006 of the Dark Phoenix, the resurrected Jean Grey has become a danger to herself, her Movie Information provided by mutant comrades, and the entire planet. To stave off this imminent threat to humanity, a potential cure is discovered and processed to treat -- and ultimately eliminate -- genetic the Internet Movie Database (www.imdb.com) mutations, once and for all. Now, as the battle lines are drawn, the X-Men, led by Pro- fessor Charles Xavier, must contend with both Jean Grey's world-consuming powers, as well as the malevolent Brotherhood, a band of powerful mutants organized under Xa- vier's former ally, Magneto. 8:00pm Aeon Flux (2005) 8:00am Screamers (1995) Rated PG-13 (93 min.) Director: Karyn Kusama Rated R (108 min.) Director: Christian Duguay With Charlize Theron, Marton Csokas, Jonny Lee Miller With Peter Weller, Roy Dupuis, Jennifer Ruben 400 years in the future, when disease has wiped out the majority of the earth's popula- The year is 2078, and on the planet Sirius 6B, a long, harsh, hate-filled war is being tion except for one walled, protected city-state: Bregna, ruled by a congress of scien- waged between the Alliance and the NEB's. However the NEB's are willing to begin tists. The story centers on Aeon Flux, the top operative in the underground Monican peace talks, so Alliance leader Col. Joseph Hendricksson, accompanied by a man rebellion, led by the Handler. When Aeon is sent on a mission to kill a government named Ace, and later a young boy, journey across the nuclear war-ravaged plains to leader, she uncovers a world of secrets.... meet with their foes. Upon their arrival, however, they discover that most of the NEB's have been annihilated by the "screamers," knife-brandishing robots that slice and slash 10:00pm Wizards (1977) humans simply for fun. Rated PG (80 min.) Director: Ralph Bakshi With voices of Bob Holt, Jesse Welles, Richard Romanus 10:15am The Mummy (1932) No rating (73 min.) Director: Karl Freund In a post-apocalyptic future that appears as a blend of World War II Europe and J.R.R. With Boris Karloff, Zita Johann, David Manners Tolkien's Middle-earth, a pint-size wizard named Avatar must save the world from a band of fascist mutants controlled by his evil twin brother, Blackwolf. In 1921 a field expedition in Egypt discovers the mummy of ancient Egyptian prince Im-Ho-Tep, who was condemned and buried alive for sacrilege. Also found in the tomb 11:30pm Innerspace(1987) is the Scroll of Thoth, which can bring the dead back to life. One night a young member Rated PG (120 min.) Director: Joe Dante of the expedition reads the Scroll out loud, and then goes insane, realizing that he has With Dennis Quaid, Martin Short, Meg Ryan brought Im-Ho-Tep back to life. Ten years later, disguised as a modern Egyptian, the mummy attempts to reunite with his lost love, an ancient princess who has been reincar- nated into a beautiful young woman. Cocky space ace Tuck Pendelton volunteers to be minaturized and injected into a lab rabbit. Some techno-terrorists foul up these plans and Tuck is mistakenly injected into hypochondriac Jack Putter instead. Now the terrorists are after Jack with all-American 12:00pm Quatermass and The Pit (1967) hero Tuck shrunk inside him. Their only hope is Tuck's journalist girl- friend Lydia, but No rating (97 min.) Director: Roy Ward Baker Jack has developed a crush on her. With James Donald, Andrew Keir, Barbara Shelley 1:45am Surprise I Workers excavating at an underground station in London uncover the skeletal remains of ancient apes with large skulls. Further digging reveals what is at first believed to be an unexploded German bomb from World War II. Missile expert Colonel Breen is 3:45am 1984 (1984) brought in to investigate, accompanied by Professor Bernard Quatermass. When the Rated R (113 min.) Director: Michael Radford interior of the "missile" is exposed, a dead locust-like creature that resembles the devil With John Hurt, Richard Burton, Suzanna Hamilton is found. It is determined by Quatermass that these "locusts" are evil Martians who altered the brains of our simian ancestors to eventually lay claim to the Earth. When After The Atomic War the world is divided into three states. London is the capital of Quatermass's suspicion that the missile can reactivate the dormant evil in humans is Oceania, ruled by a party who has total control over all its citizens. Winston Smith is confirmed, all hell breaks loose. one of the bureaucrats, rewriting history in one of the departments. One day he commits the crime of falling in love with Julia. They try to escape Big Brother's listening and 2:15pm Surprise II viewing devices, but, of course, nobody can really escape... 5:00pm Zardoz (1974) 6:00am Gojira (1954) Rated R (105 min.) Director: John Boorman No rating (98 min.) Director: Ishiro Honda With Sean Connery, Charlotte Rampling, Sara Kestelman With Akira Takarada, Momoko Koshi, Akihiko Hirata Brutals are told that when they die they will go to the vortex, where the Eternals live The testing of nuclear weapons in the Pacific Ocean triggers the awakening of a dread- immortally. Zed, an Exterminator-class brutal who worships the stone head Zardoz, ful, 400-foot-tall, fire-breathing prehistoric lizard who commences to wreak havoc on comes upon an old library where a mysterious stranger teaches him how to read. When the city of Tokyo. he finds a copy of a well known book, he sets out to learn the secret of the god he wor-.