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The Flawed Allegory of Nope

Avatar photo by Jasmine Liu August 4, 2022August 4, 2022

Is watching Jordan Peele’s latest film nothing more than an exercise in decoding his message?

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Jordan Peele’s Nope Is Funny, Intelligent, and Horrifying

Avatar photo by Dan Schindel July 20, 2022July 25, 2022

It’s another equally thrilling and smart ride from the rising director, subtly tackling intersecting ideas about “seeing” and “being seen” along the way.

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The Afrofuturist Musical Romance of Neptune Frost

by Steve Macfarlane June 16, 2022June 16, 2022

Saul Williams and Anisia Uzeyman’s new film performs a radical intervention upon the science fiction genre.

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A Return to The Matrix Explores Binary Thinking

by Juan Barquin January 2, 2022December 30, 2021

With The Matrix Resurrections, writer/director Lana Wachowski critically examines how our understanding of gender and identity has changed since the original trilogy.

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Yugoslavian Monuments Deliver a Message from Two Billion Years in the Future

Avatar photo by Dan Schindel December 15, 2021December 15, 2021

The only film directed by composer Jóhann Jóhannsson before his death in 2018, Last and First Men is an eerie combination of sci-fi and documentary.

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Dune Is Impressive but Incomplete

Avatar photo by Dan Schindel October 20, 2021October 20, 2021

The biggest problem with turning Dune into a film is that the book appears increasingly derivative of generic sci-fi tropes.

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A Mind-Controlling Assassin Starts to Lose Herself

Avatar photo by Dan Schindel November 5, 2020November 5, 2020

Possessor is a gruesome, disturbing sci-fi thriller about identity.

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A Bleakly Funny Vision of the Future With Clones and Time Travel

Avatar photo by Dan Schindel October 23, 2020November 5, 2020

The latest installment of indie animator Don Hertzfeldt’s World of Tomorrow series expands its bleakly funny vision of the future.

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Cao Fei’s Science Fiction Fever Dreams

Avatar photo by Sanjana Varghese August 27, 2020November 5, 2020

In Blueprints, Cao works primarily as an anthropologist of sorts, creating a space where the past and the future are not so easily demarcated.

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The Twists and Turns of the New Twilight Zone

Avatar photo by Dan Schindel July 1, 2020November 5, 2020

While the series often falters, season two feels less self-conscious about its status in this iconic franchise, and more willing to simply be itself.

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A POC-Centered Vision of NYC From NK Jemisin, Celebrated Sci-Fi Author

Avatar photo by Dessane Lopez Cassell June 10, 2020November 5, 2020

Jemisin will join comedian W. Kamau Bell for a discussion of sci-fi, Afrofuturism, and her most recent novel, which brings her unique brand of speculative fiction a little closer to earth.

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A Graphic Novel Adapts Octavia Butler’s Science Fiction Classic

Avatar photo by Ayoola Solarin April 24, 2020April 24, 2020

The award-winning author-illustrator duo Damian Duffy and John Jennings have teamed up again, but at times, Parable of the Sower: A Graphic Novel Adaptation feels unoriginal, even for an adaptation.

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