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dystopia

Terry Gilliam’s ‘Brazil’ At 40: More Prescient Than Orwell

Gilliam's vision of totalitarianism as both evil and bumbling, with parallels to our current dystopian moment.
By Noah Berlatsky

Screening at the Berlin Film Festival: ‘Mickey 17’

"Although it’s a story of the future, it feels like a story that could happen in the present," said director Bong Joon-ho of his dystopian science fiction film 'Mickey 17,' which has Trumpian undertones that are hard to miss.
By Stephen Garrett

‘Fallout’ Review: A Post-Apocalyptic Adventure With a Sick Sense of Humor

Scrappy protagonists, global calamity, lawless wasteland, based on a video game — sounds like the 'Last of Us.' But this Amazon series is more over-the-top, twisted, fun, and even hopeful.
By Dylan Roth

‘The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes’ Review: Is There Any Appetite Left?

By Emily Zemler

‘Silo’ Review: Slow Moving Sci-Fi Dystopia With A Mystery Too Easy to Solve

By Dylan Roth

Tim Robbins On Authoritarianism And The Cautionary Tale Of ‘Silo’

By Emily Zemler

Andrew Krivak’s ‘The Bear’ Imagines a Lush, Post-Apocalyptic Earth

By Lauren LeBlanc
Sophie Mackintosh

Sophie Mackintosh’s Modern Fairy Tale Imagines a World Where Masculinity Is Literally Toxic

By Lauren LeBlanc
A Scanner Darkly (2006), directed by Richard Linklater, with Keanu Reeves and Winona Ryder.

Can Watching Science Fiction Help Us Answer What It Means to Be Human?

By Alanna Martinez
Isaiah Washington as Jaha.

‘The 100’ Recap 4×12: This Is How We Do It

By Alanna Martinez
Visitors are encouraged to take one of 4,000 free copies of Margaret Atwood's book.

Public Art Installation Offers Thousands of Free Copies of ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’

By Alanna Martinez
King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard

King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard Expand Their Universe by Murdering Ours

By Justin Joffe
Elke Sommer, German actress, wearing a crochet minidress with a beehive hairstyle and sitting on the floor in a studio portrait, against a green background, circa 1965. (Photo by Silver Screen Collection/Getty Images)

Brave New Woman

By Jasmine Lobe
Nicky Paraiso and Mike Iveson in the background in Sorry Robot at the New Ohio Theatre as part of P.S. 122's COIL Festival. (Photo by Paula Court.)

Robots Have Feelings, Too, and Sing About Them, Loudly

By Christopher Murray
After swiping through the first few vibings, you get this, because Sobrr is mostly a ghost town. (Photo by Jack Smith IV)

Sobrr Social Network Deletes Everything After 24 Hours, Illuminates Pointlessness of Existence

By Jack Smith IV
Remembering Trayvon Martin. (Getty)

Trayvon Martin and the Real-Life Hunger Games

By Chris Lehmann

Big Brother Joins Social Media

By Adrianne Jeffries
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