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Temporal (film)
''Temporal'' is a 2022 Sri Lankan science fiction short film directed by Akash Sunethkumara. The film stars Vimukthi Kiriella, Ishanka Abeysekara, Krishantha Mendis with a cameo appearance by Lakshman Mendis. Plot On a tragic night, a physicist challenges the limits of time travel to save the woman he loves, but soon discovers its inherent dangers are far greater than he expects. Kalpa is a physicist employed at Tusker Enterprises in the Research and Development Division where he works on a time-travel machine which he tries to make functional. He misses a night out that his girlfriend Nikita had organized to introduce him to her friends, coinciding with Mallett's Comet flying over the city. Nikita confronts him and an argument ensues, resulting in her ending the relationship. During the argument, Kalpa notices a figure run and hide behind one of the walls but he is distracted by Nikita. On his way back to the lab, he encounters the janitor who tells him that "The main fault o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Akash Sunethkumara
Akash Sunethkumara (Akash Sk) is a Sri Lankan filmmaker, writer and actor. Early life Akash Sunethkumara was born in Colombo, Sri Lanka. He is an alumnus of St. Nicholas' International College Negombo and Staffordshire University. Career High School Junkies In 2016, Sunethkumara formed a filmmaking collective with a group of friends titled ''High School Junkies''. Together, he created his first publicly released short film ''EIDETIC'' which was his Masters thesis project. A low-budgeted short of $300, EIDETIC screened at various film festivals including San Diego Comic-Con's Independent Film Festival. In 2018, he directed a short horror titled ''The Summoning''. Later in 2019, he released a mini-follow up to ''The Summoning'' titled ''The Friend'' which was also published on Crypt TV. Sunethkumara directed ''The Knight Out'' in 2020, a project marketed as an "action musical" which merged the concepts of a music video with martial arts action. In 2022, Sunethkuma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Science Fiction
Science fiction (often shortened to sci-fi or abbreviated SF) is a genre of speculative fiction that deals with imaginative and futuristic concepts. These concepts may include information technology and robotics, biological manipulations, space exploration, time travel, Parallel universes in fiction, parallel universes, and extraterrestrials in fiction, extraterrestrial life. The genre often explores human responses to the consequences of projected or imagined scientific advances. Science fiction is related to fantasy (together abbreviated wikt:SF&F, SF&F), Horror fiction, horror, and superhero fiction, and it contains many #Subgenres, subgenres. The genre's precise Definitions of science fiction, definition has long been disputed among authors, critics, scholars, and readers. Major subgenres include hard science fiction, ''hard'' science fiction, which emphasizes scientific accuracy, and soft science fiction, ''soft'' science fiction, which focuses on social sciences. Other no ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lakshman Mendis
Balapaduwaduge Manukulasuriya Lakshman Mendis (born 19 May 1955: ), popularly as Lakshman Mendis, is an actor in Sri Lankan cinema, theatre and television. Personal life He was born on 19 May 1955 in Colombo, Sri Lanka. His father Reggie Mendis was a former member of the Central Committee of the Lanka Sama Samaja Party (LSSP). Born in Moratuwa, Reggie was a church clerk as a child. Reggie was the Secretary of the Board of Education of the ancient Lanka Sama Samaja Party in the past and considered the crucial role of educating his party members to be trained and experienced in Marxism today. In the early 1940s he joined the Bolshevik Leninist Party. Meanwhile, The British government had issued an order to shoot Reggie at the scene. His leadership in Pettah Place during the 1953 nationwide Hartal War was prominent. As the LSSP leaders descend from City Hall in 1955 rally, one of the robed men, detonated a bombed. Reggie's hand was broken near his wrist when he was hit by an oncoming ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
COVID-19 Pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic (also known as the coronavirus pandemic and COVID pandemic), caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), began with an disease outbreak, outbreak of COVID-19 in Wuhan, China, in December 2019. Soon after, it spread to other areas of Asia, and COVID-19 pandemic by country and territory, then worldwide in early 2020. The World Health Organization (WHO) declared the outbreak a public health emergency of international concern (PHEIC) on 30 January 2020, and assessed the outbreak as having become a pandemic on 11 March. COVID-19 symptoms range from asymptomatic to deadly, but most commonly include fever, sore throat, nocturnal cough, and fatigue. Transmission of COVID-19, Transmission of the virus is often airborne transmission, through airborne particles. Mutations have variants of SARS-CoV-2, produced many strains (variants) with varying degrees of infectivity and virulence. COVID-19 vaccines were developed rapidly and deplo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daily Mirror (Sri Lanka)
''Daily Mirror'' is a daily English-language newspaper published in Colombo, Sri Lanka, by Wijeya Newspapers. Its Sunday counterpart is the ''Sunday Times''. Its sister newspaper on financial issues is the ''Daily FT''. Daily supplements ;Mondays through Saturdays *''Mirror Business'' *''Life'' ;Tuesdays *''W@W – Women at work'' ;Thursdays *''Junior Mirror'' See also *'' Lankadeepa'', Sinhala-language sister newspaper *'' Tamil Mirror'', Tamil-language Tamil (, , , also written as ''Tamizhil'' according to linguistic pronunciation) is a Dravidian language natively spoken by the Tamil people of South Asia. It is one of the longest-surviving classical languages in the world,. "Tamil is one ... sister newspaper Notes External links * - Daily Mirror Daily newspapers published in Sri Lanka English-language newspapers published in Sri Lanka Newspapers established in 1999 Wijeya Newspapers Mass media in Colombo {{SriLanka-newspaper-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Time Travel In Fiction
Time travel is a common theme in fiction, mainly since the late 19th century, and has been depicted in a variety of media, such as literature, television, and film. The concept of time travel by mechanical means was popularized in H. G. Wells' 1895 story, ''The Time Machine''. In general, time travel stories focus on the consequences of traveling into the past or the future. The premise for these stories often involves changing history, either intentionally or by accident, and the ways by which altering the past changes the future and creates an altered present or future for the time traveler upon their return. In other instances, the premise is that the past cannot be changed or that the future is determined, and the protagonist's actions turn out to be inconsequential or intrinsic to events as they originally unfolded. Some stories focus solely on the paradoxes and alternate timelines that come with time travel, rather than time traveling. They often provide some sort of soci ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Film Threat
''Film Threat'' is an American online film review publication, and earlier, a national magazine that focused primarily on independent film, although it also reviewed videos and DVDs of mainstream films, as well as Hollywood movies in theaters. It first appeared as a photocopied zine in 1985, created by Wayne State University students Chris Gore and André Seewood. In 1997, ''Film Threat'' was converted to a solely online resource. The current incarnation of ''Film Threat'' accepts money from filmmakers who are looking for a way to promote their films. Since 2011, those seeking a review from the site can pay between $50 and $400 for varying levels of service, ranging from a "guaranteed review within 7–10 days" to a package that includes a guarantee of "100K minimum impressions". Beginning The initial issues of ''Film Threat'' combined theories on cinematic narrative form and political ideology by Seewood and cinematic material and parody of mainstream film by Gore. In Gore' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Bay
Michael Benjamin Bay (born February 17, 1965) is an American film director and producer. He is best known for making big-budget high-concept action films with fast cutting, stylistic cinematography and visuals, and extensive use of special effects, including frequent depictions of explosions. The films he has directed include ''Bad Boys (1995 film), Bad Boys'' (1995) and its sequel ''Bad Boys II'' (2003), ''The Rock (film), The Rock'' (1996), ''Armageddon (1998 film), Armageddon'' (1998), ''Pearl Harbor (film), Pearl Harbor'' (2001), the first five films in the ''Transformers (film series), Transformers'' film series, ''13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi'' (2016), ''6 Underground (film), 6 Underground'' (2019), and ''Ambulance (2022 film), Ambulance'' (2022). His films have grossed over worldwide, making him the List of highest-grossing directors, fourth-most commercially successful director in history. He is co-founder of the production house The Institute (company), t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Primer (film)
''Primer'' is a 2004 American Independent film, independent science fiction film about the accidental discovery of time travel. The film was written, directed, produced, edited and scored by Shane Carruth in his debut feature. Carruth also stars with David Sullivan (actor), David Sullivan. ''Primer'' is noted for its extremely low budget, experimental plot structure, philosophical implications, and complex technical dialogue, which Carruth, a college graduate with a degree in mathematics and a former engineer, chose not to simplify for the sake of the audience. The film collected the Grand Jury Prize Dramatic at the 2004 Sundance Film Festival, before securing a limited release in the United States, and has since gained a cult following. Plot Two engineers, Aaron and Abe, supplement their day jobs with entrepreneurial tech projects, working out of Aaron's garage. During one such research effort involving electromagnetic reduction of objects' weight, the two men accidentally ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
