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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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Enter Michael DeForge’s World, Where People and Places Alike Get Constant “Updates”

by Dan Schindel April 14, 2020

In the futuristic setting of the graphic novel Familiar Face, the alienation induced by rapid technological advancement is accelerated to a fantastical degree.

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Peeking Behind the Curtain of 2001: A Space Odyssey

by Dan Schindel March 3, 2020

Little of the information presented in Envisioning 2001 will be new to Kubrick diehards, but it gathers artifacts that offer a thrill for anyone who has ever been affected by the movie.

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Using AI to Question What Art Is

by Matt Turner February 11, 2020February 10, 2020

Lawrence Lek’s AIDOL tells the story of an AI composer making music in a world rendered in video game graphics.

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