Tag: SciFi

Murky reflections: why sci-fi needs to stop imitating Black Mirror | Culture

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Paul Mescal and Saoirse Ronan in Foe

It’s a tale as old as time: two young people hit it off. They’re living in a vaguely future-ish, vaguely retro world, with the technology to read potential couples for compatibility within the accuracy of […]

‘The helmet made my hair fall out’: Jeff Bridges on making cult sci-fi film Tron | Jeff Bridges

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Bridges, Cindy Morgan and Bruce Boxleitner in Tron.

Jeff Bridges, played Kevin Flynn/Clu In the late 1950s my father, Lloyd Bridges, starred in a TV series called Sea Hunt, about a diver. He played the part so well that people thought he was […]

Every sci-fi movie should handle technology like 65 does

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Space trucker Mills (Adam Driver, in a grey retrofuturistic bodysuit) clutches a sleek grey space rifle as he walks among huge dinosaur rib bones in 65

For a movie about Adam Driver fighting dinosaurs, 65 sure came and went without much fanfare. The futuristic survival film — a collaboration between A Quiet Place writers Scott Beck and Bryan Woods — quietly […]

Wes Anderson and Steven Spielberg use sci-fi the same way

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A spaceship largely made of glass hovers above a crowd of people seated in an asteroid blast crater in a shot lit only by eerie green light in Wes Anderson’s Asteroid City

Deep in its closing credits, the new Wes Anderson movie Asteroid City features an unexpected name. In the “special thanks” section toward the end of the roll, listed alongside Anderson friends and past collaborators like […]

Is The Creator the first (or last) in a new wave of sci-fi movies about AI? | Movies

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Madeline Voyles as Alphie in The Creator.

It’s been a while since we had a truly great movie about devious, dystopian AIs priming themselves to take over the world, in which the key choices made by mere humans will decide whether we […]