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Oblivion

Jack and drone 166 face off. Those drones will kill you as soon as look at you.

By 2077, the Earth has seen better days. The moon is even worse off, though, since it’s mostly gone, destroyed by mysterious aliens called Scavengers, or Scavs. According to my research, this lack of moon means that the Earth is now prone to wobbling wildly on its axis, the weather would be even more insanely unpredictable, and the tides would be about half what they are now. That last part doesn’t matter as much as you might think, since at the moment the only thing anybody wants from the oceans is to drain them dry.
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Phase IV

Kendra and an ant watch each other warily. I've got my eye on you...

This year’s film festival featured a lot of ants. Yes, ants. Not giant ants, which I must admit was my first thought, but a bunch of regular-sized ants of different species all working together for some mysterious purpose. They did look like giants, though, as there were many extreme close-ups of said ants projected up onto a large screen, and I felt rather small myself at times.

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Evil Dead

The scary old book bound in human skin. I wouldn't even want to touch it.

I could never be a character in a horror movie, at least not a main character. Not so much because I scare too easily — that’s probably an asset in a character in a horror movie — but because I’d be trying so hard to be cautious that the scary stuff would take forever to get going. In this case, for example, everything starts when someone cuts open a lot of wire and tears into a thick plastic bag in order to read the scary old book bound in human skin. I know, right? He seemed sensible otherwise, but wow.
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