• Newsletters
  • Become a member
  • CITY LIFE
    • Agenda: Things to do
    • Out Here
    • Shop Local
    • Street View
    • The Sound Issue
    • Best of Chicago: City Life
    • Best of Chicago: Buy Local
    • Best of Chicago: Cannabis
    • Best of Chicago: Sports & Recreation
  • NEWS & POLITICS
    • News
    • Features
    • En español
    • Podcasts
      • The Ben Joravsky Show
      • Chicago Queer & Now
  • COLUMNS & OPINION
    • Anthony Ehlers: On Prisons
    • John Greenfield: On Transportation
    • Deanna Isaacs: On Culture
    • Ben Joravsky: On Politics
    • The Ben Joravsky Show
    • Dan Savage: Savage Love
    • Opinion
  • MUSIC
    • Music Features
    • Chicagoans of Note
    • Gossip Wolf
    • The Listener
    • The Secret History of Chicago Music
    • Music Reviews
    • Concert Previews
    • Early Warnings
    • Music listings community calendar
    • The Sound Issue
    • Best of Chicago: Music & Nightlife
    • Chicago in Tune guide
    • Bull Horn (paid sponsored content)
  • ARTS & CULTURE
    • Summer Theater & Arts Preview
    • Features
    • Theater
    • Dance
    • Visual arts
    • Book reviews
    • Ghost Light by Kerry Reid
    • The Sound Issue
    • Best of Chicago: Arts & Culture
    • Arts listings community calendar
  • FILM
    • Features
    • Reviews
    • Small Screen
    • Archives
  • FOOD & DRINK
    • The Food Issue
    • Features
    • Reviews
    • Monday Night Foodball
    • Best of Chicago: Food & Drink
    • The Drinks Issue (2021)
    • Sommelier Series (paid sponsored content)
  • READER
    • About
      • Contact
      • Staff
      • Careers
    • Newsletters
    • Find a print copy
      • Distribution map and information
      • Print subscriptions
    • Advertise
    • Donate
    • Become a member
    • Contests
    • Reader Store
    • Classifieds
      • Matches
    • Nonprofit Guide
    • Reader 50
    • Best of Chicago
  • Twitter
  • Facebook
  • Instagram
  • RSS
Skip to content
Chicago Reader

Chicago Reader

Chicago’s alternative nonprofit newsroom

Become a member
  • »
  • Latest issue
  • Summer Theater & Arts
  • En español
  • Reader 50
  • Nonprofit Guide
  • Contests
  • Reader Store
  • Advertise
Home » science fiction

Tag: science fiction

Daniel Kaluuya and Keke Palmer stand in a doorway, with a bleach-blonde Brandon Perea pointing from behind them
Posted inFilm

From roller rinks to R-rated movies

by Gregory Wakeman July 28, 2022July 29, 2022

Perea’s career is almost certainly going to hit another echelon now that Nope has hit cinemas. For the time being, though, he just hopes that audiences are thoroughly entertained by Peele’s dynamic storytelling and filmmaking.

Daniel Kaluuya in an orange hoodie on horseback
Posted inFilm

Nope

by Gregory Wakeman July 28, 2022July 29, 2022

Nope is still too fun and has too many effective sequences to be considered a disappointment. It’s just not as resoundingly impressive as we’ve come to expect from Peele.

two dark-skinned people in shiny futuristic outfits look at each other, with a green sci-fi hue over everything
Posted inFilm

Neptune Frost is limitless

by Arionne Nettles June 13, 2022June 13, 2022

It’s a sci-fi, Afrofuturistic story that is also a musical that takes place in the past, present, and future, while also spanning the wide depths of identity and innovation.

Posted inArts & Culture

The scene report from space

by Megan Kirby November 29, 2021November 29, 2021

Elaborate hologram displays. A satellite planet. A mysterious deity. On the surface, Lane Milburn’s rollicking sci-fi graphic novel Lure doesn’t have much to do with Chicago. But Milburn drew inspiration […]

Posted inMusic

Heavy experimentalists Nadja turn from shoegazing to stargazing on Luminious Rot

by Jamie Ludwig May 28, 2021August 18, 2021

Experimental drone and postmetal outfit Nadja got their start in 2003 as the solo studio project of ambient musician Aidan Baker, but by 2005 he’d enlisted the help of bassist […]

Posted inFilm

Volition

by Becca James June 9, 2020August 23, 2021

1 hour 31 min

Posted inFilm

Vivarium

by Becca James March 24, 2020August 23, 2021

R • 1 hour 37 min

Posted inFilm

In My Room

by Chicago Reader October 17, 2019August 23, 2021

1 hour 59 min • 2018

Posted inFilm

The Giant Spider Invasion

by Chicago Reader August 8, 2019August 23, 2021

PG • 1 hour 24 min • 1975

Posted inFilm

The Giant Claw

by Chicago Reader July 25, 2019August 23, 2021

1 hour 15 min • 1957

Posted inFilm

I Am Mother

by Noëlle D. Lilley June 6, 2019August 23, 2021

1 hour 55 min • 2019

Posted inFilm

Juggernaut Film Festival

by Chicago Reader May 30, 2019August 23, 2021

2019

Posted inFilm

White Out, Black In

by Chicago Reader May 30, 2019August 23, 2021

1 hour 30 min • 2014

Posted inFilm

Galaxy Lords

by Chicago Reader May 23, 2019August 23, 2021

1 hour 36 min • 2018

Posted inFilm

Grain

by Ben Sachs May 9, 2019August 23, 2021

2 hours 8 min • 2017

Posts navigation

1 2 3 … 32 Older posts

Get our free daily newsletter delivered straight to your inbox Monday through Friday. Dive into our most recent stories and exclusive insights from our editors and staff.

  • Twitter
  • Facebook
  • Instagram
  • RSS

Best of Chicago 2021

About the Chicago Reader
Reader Staff
Reader Careers
Freelance Information
Contact Us
Become a member
Donate

Advertise

Submit/promote your event

Find the Paper
Subscribe
Shop the Reader Store
Contests/Giveaways/Promotions

Reader Classifieds

Reader Matches

Chicago Reader Nonprofit Guide

Get our free newsletters

Privacy Policy | Terms of Use

© 2022 Chicago Reader. Proudly powered by Newspack by Automattic