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Best Docking Scenes – Article

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TL;DR – We Explore the Best Science Fiction Docking Scenes in Cinema

Best Docking Scenes in Cinema Introduction

I was talking with a friend today about certain building blocks of genres, which segued into Interstellar. Then the conversation naturally turned to the docking sequence, one of its most famous moments. This left me thinking that, unless you are going to do a Star Trek and beam around everywhere, one of the key points of tension that can be created in Science Fiction comes from that docking manoeuvre. It can be full of dread, of wonder, and of calamity. So, today I want to explore some of the best docking sequences in Cinema and Television.

Honourable Mentions:

Alien: Romulus: Docking with a death station.
Farscape: Deploy the Docking Web.
Gravity: Breaking into a Chinese Space Station
The Martian – Capturing a supply pod
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine – The USS Rio Grande docking on the Habitat Ring.
Star Trek: Nemesis – The USS Enterprise forcefully docking with the Scimitar.
Star Trek: Voyager – The USS Prometheus docks with itself.
Star Wars: A New Hope – That’s no Moon.
Sunshine: Icarus II docks with Icarus I.
Tron: Legacy – Train arrives at a secret ship.

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Movie Review – Searching

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TL;DR – A film that is both revolutionary filmmaking, but also deeply centred on the question of what would you do if you lost everything

Score – 4 out of 5 stars

Post-Credit Scene – There is no post-credit scene

Searching. Image Credit: Sony

Review –

Films can be revolutionary for a number of reasons, maybe they have a new actor that blows the world away, maybe they are looking at a subject that no one dared venture before, or maybe they revolutionise filmmaking in some way. With Searching, we have the later because this is a film that is shot entirely from the perspective of a computer screen. We see the YouTube video, the webcam, the documents as if we were living in the screen and peering out in the world. It is both disorientating but also oddly comfortable as it has all the tactile notions of the world we live in. With that in mind, today we are going to see if this is a film that is just a gimmick, or if it is using this new technique to tell a story.

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My Top 10 Films of 2016

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So here we are at the end of the year, the sound of fireworks still ringing in our ears, the excess of Christmas just a faint memory, and the realisation just dawning that you probably won’t get your money’s worth out of that gym membership you bought for your New Year’s resolution. However, it is also a time of reflection, a look into the past and the hope for the future, and while 2016 has been referred to as a dumpster-fire year, there were some great moments in film, and this is what we are celebrating today.

So far in our end of year countdown we’ve looked at the Most Disappointing Films of 2016 (Click here to see), and we’ve looked at the Highly Commended films of 2016 (Click here to see), but now it’s time for the grand finale with our Top 10 Films of 2016.

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Movie Review – Star Trek Beyond

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TL;DR – They finally found the right formula for the reboot series and it is glorious, the cast is amazing, the action is good, and every joke hits its mark.

Score – 5 out of 5 stars

Star Trek Beyond. Image Credit: Paramount.

Review –

I think I need to start with some context before jumping into this review, on the whole, I do really like the Star Trek franchise, however, I have not been a fan of this rebooted Star Trek movie series. The first movie had great casting, but the story was full of logical problems and lazy short-cuts, that it removed any real emotional weight to killing off Vulcan, and I just really did not like it (2/5 stars). The second film Into Darkness did a little better with me, as it had some reasonably good character moments, and some interesting set pieces, but the need to recreate one of the most iconic conflicts in Star Trek, and then the ability to not quite pull it off left the movie feeling quite flat (2.5/5 stars). I want to say this upfront so you understand this 5 out of 5 I am giving the film (only the second one of 2016) is not because I am enamoured completely with everything Star Trek, I am giving this film a 5 out of 5 because it has bloomin’ well earned it.

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