Five sci-fi and tech movies to watch this fall

While the new fall shows we previewed last week may not stay on television long, these

upcoming fall releases should at least last a week in theatres. So let’s all go to the lobby, get

ourselves a treat, and watch some movies.

By Jeff Jedras

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The Colony

Laurence Fishburne and Bill Paxton are among the stars of this Canadian sci-fi horror film.

It’s 2045, and climate change has pushed the planet into an ice age. Survivors live

underground in a series of colonies. And suddenly, they have another problem – zombies!

Gravity

Starring George Clooney and

Sandra Bullock, Gravity is a

techno-thriller about astronauts

trying to survive in space after

the space shuttle is damaged

during a spacewalk, cutting off

the crew from Earth. It will make

its North American premiere at

the Toronto International Film

Festival.

Escape Plan

With a star-studded cast of

action heroes including Stallone,

Schwarzenegger and Caviezel, in

The Escape a wrongly accused

structural engineer (Stallone)

tries to escape a high-tech,

escape proof prison of his own

design, with help from cellmate

Schwarzenegger.

Ender’s Game

Based on the novel of the same

name, a gifted young boy (Asa

Butterfield) is sent to an

advanced military school to hone

his skills in preparation for a

coming alien invasion. Harrison

Ford and Ben Kingsley also star.

Her

From writer/director Spoke

Jonze, Her is a sci-fi romance

about a lovelorn man (Joaquin

Phoenix) who falls in love with

his computer’s operating system.

Yes, I did see this episode of Big

Bang Theory. But Scarlett

Johansson voices the OS. Kind of

hard to blame him.