John Carpenter’s dystopian vision has become our present.
Tag: dystopia
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Below the Belt suffers from a too-vaguely-imagined dystopia
We can’t worry about odd couple roommates until we know how much danger they’re in.
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Cryogenic preservation may be possible, but that doesn’t mean it’s a good idea
Tune out tomorrow: The future always looks terrible.
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Revolting babies
Bailiwick Chicago and the New Colony coproduce futuristic Rise of the Numberless
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A Scanner Darkly
Richard Linklater returns to the animated aesthetic of Waking Life for this adaptation of Philip K. Dick’s dystopian SF novel about slacker drug addicts and double agents in the Orange County of the future. Critic Gary Indiana has called Linklater the Dostoyevsky of movie dialogue, and certainly the compulsive jabber here can be as expressionist […]