When.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Arrival (film) - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arrival_(film)

    Arrival is a 2016 American science fiction drama film directed by Denis Villeneuve and written by Eric Heisserer, based on the 1998 short story "Story of Your Life" by Ted Chiang. The film stars Amy Adams as Louise Banks, a linguist enlisted by the United States Army to discover how to communicate with extraterrestrials who have arrived on ...

  3. The Arrival (1996 film) - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Arrival_(1996_film)

    The Arrival is a 1996 science fiction thriller film written and directed by David Twohy and starring Charlie Sheen, and co-starring Lindsay Crouse, Ron Silver, Teri Polo, and Richard Schiff. Sheen stars as radio astronomer Zane Zaminsky who discovers evidence of intelligent alien life and quickly gets thrown into the middle of a conspiracy that ...

  4. Science fiction film - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science_fiction_film

    According to Vivian Sobchack, a British cinema and media theorist and cultural critic: . Science fiction film is a film genre which emphasizes actual, extrapolative, or 2.0 speculative science and the empirical method, interacting in a social context with the lesser emphasized, but still present, transcendentalism of magic and religion, in an attempt to reconcile man with the unknown.

  5. The Arrival (1991 film) - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Arrival_(1991_film)

    [2] In his book Horror and Science Fiction Film IV, Donald C Willis described the film as "mawkish and routine except for the gradual-rejuvenation idea." [6] Creature Feature gave the film 3.5 out of 5 stars, stating that while the exposition on the alien is lacking, that the movie packs an emotional punch. [7]

  6. Arrival - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arrival

    The Arrival, an American science fiction horror film The Arrival (1996 film) , an American-Mexican science fiction horror film Arrival (film) , a 2016 American science fiction film by Denis Villeneuve

  7. Multivac - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multivac

    Multivac is a fictional supercomputer appearing in over a dozen science fiction stories by American writer Isaac Asimov.Asimov's depiction of Multivac, a mainframe computer accessible by terminal, originally by specialists using machine code and later by any user, and used for directing the global economy and humanity's development, has been seen as the defining conceptualization of the genre ...

  8. Alien language in science fiction - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alien_language_in_science...

    The story is the base of the 2016 science-fiction movie, Arrival, in which a linguist is tasked by the U.S. Army to try and understand an alien language of complex symbols. The film received significant media attention for its unique and detailed portrayal of what human communication with aliens might resemble. [6]

  9. List of accolades received by Arrival - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_accolades_received...

    Arrival is a 2016 American science fiction film directed by Denis Villeneuve and written by Eric Heisserer. [1] Starring Amy Adams, Jeremy Renner and Forest Whitaker, the film focuses on the contact between a linguist (Adams) and aliens in one of 12 extraterrestrial spacecraft that appear across Earth. [2]