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CRIMES OF THE FUTURE

May 31, 2022 By Leave a Comment

CRIMES OF THE FUTURE

Click here for the flashback interview with David Cronenberg and Viggo Mortensen for EASTERN PROMISES. With CRIMES OF THE FUTURE, David Cronenberg once again presents us with a dystopian future, or is it an alternate present, that is alien and yet, somehow, instantly familiar. It’s not just the machines that mimic the skeletal structures of… Read More »

Tagged With: autopsy, body horror, body modification, collapsing ecosystem, dystopian future

REMINISCENCE

August 21, 2021 By Leave a Comment

REMINISCENCE

There is a persistent torpor to REMINISCENCE, a film that tries to be many things and fails for the most part. Rife with visuals that evoke a disquieting dreamlike state, the story, an ersatz neo-noir set mostly between sunset and sunrise, drones along with the cinematic equivalent of a mosquito’s interminable buzz on a humid… Read More »

Tagged With: corruption, dystopian future, femme fatel, global warming, memory, Miami, rising oceans

THE DIVERGENT SERIES: ALLEGIANT

March 16, 2016 By Leave a Comment

THE DIVERGENT SERIES: ALLEGIANT

As is the wont with these franchises based on young adult novels, THE DIVERGENT SERIES: ALLEGIANT, the third in the series, begins where the last one left off. No flashback montage, no character narration bringing us up to date. Instead, there’s just a quick reminder that Jeanine is dead, and that everyone on screen is… Read More »

Tagged With: Chicago, dystopian future, franchise book to screen, genetic purity, romance, sequel, unexpected power point presentation

THE HUNGER GAMES: MOCKINGJAY — Part 2

November 18, 2015 By Leave a Comment

THE HUNGER GAMES: MOCKINGJAY — Part 2

THE HUNGER GAMES may be based on a wildly popular young adult series of novels, but the film adaptations have always tackled issues that are powerfully adult and presented as such. Set in an unspecified future, the class system has run so wild that the life and death of the proletariat class has become institutionalized… Read More »

Tagged With: book to screen, dystopian future, finale, guerilla warfare, rebellion, revolution, sequel

MAD MAX: FURY ROAD

May 13, 2015 By Leave a Comment

MAD MAX: FURY ROAD

George Miller first sent Mad Max blazing across the sere post-apocalyptic landscape in 1979 and thence onto cinematic legend. Sequels followed. Mel Gibson in the eponymous role rose to international fame and, eventually, Miller moved on to different sorts of classics with BABE and HAPPY FEET. Now, thirty years and more later, he is revisiting… Read More »

Tagged With: Charlize Theron, cinema, dystopian future, George Miller, Hugh Keays-Byrne, MAD MAX: FURY ROAD, movie, narrative, Nicholas Hoult, patriarchy, post-apocalyptic, reboot, Sci-fi, Toecutter, Tom Hardy

INSURGENT Keeps the DIVERGENT Franchise Puffing Along

March 20, 2015 By Leave a Comment

INSURGENT Keeps the DIVERGENT Franchise Puffing Along

The advantage of seeing outstanding actors in a middling film is that you can appreciate just how good they are on a whole new level.  And INSURGENT is certainly a middling film, though that is an improvement on the last installment in this franchise, DIVERGENT. With a new director, Robert Schwentke, bringing Veronica Roth’s YA… Read More »

Tagged With: Ashley Judd, book to screen, Chicago, cinema, DIVERGENT, dystopian future, factions, fantasy, film, INSURGENT, Kate Winslet, Miles Teller, movie, narrative, Octavia Spencer, Robert Schwentke, Sci-fi, Shailene Woodley, THeo James, Tony Goldwyn, Veronica Roth., young adult and tagged Ansel Elgort

CHILDREN OF MEN

October 21, 2014 By Leave a Comment

CHILDREN OF MEN

In a here-and-now where the primacy of children is given ample lip service by proponents of any and all social issues, it is refreshing, and not a little thought-provoking, to see in Alfonso Cuaron’s CHILDREN OF MEN, based on the P.D. James novel of the same name, a world in which this is actually the case.… Read More »

Tagged With: Alfonso Cuaron, book to film, CHILDREN OF MEN, Clive Owen, dystopian future, immigration, infertility, Julianne Moore, Margaret Atwood, paranoia, pregnancy, Sci-fi, speculative fiction, terrorism

SOUTHLAND TALES

October 21, 2014 By Leave a Comment

SOUTHLAND TALES

There are bad movies. CATWOMAN was bad. GOOD LUCK CHUCK was bad. And then there are movies that are not just bad, they are events. PLAN 9 FROM OUTER SPACE. ISHTAR. WATERWORLD. BATTLEFIELD EARTH. SWEPT AWAY (the remake), PEARL HARBOR. Many contend, but few achieve the apotheosis to that rarified circle, but SOUTHLAND TALES, with… Read More »

Tagged With: dystopian future, Los Angeles, mad scientist, Monumentally bad film, Patriot Act, Robert Frost, T.S. Eliot, World War III

AUTOMATA

October 21, 2014 By Leave a Comment

AUTOMATA

AUTOMATA is a smooth jazz riff of a film noir that covers familiar territory with an intriguing twist, and a novel brand of hopeful melancholy. It’s a melancholy time, here in the near future as the sun slowly kills off what is left of humankind. It’s a time of huddled masses doubling-down in cities that… Read More »

Tagged With: Antonio Bandares, artificial intellitence, cinema, consciousness, dystopian future, Gabe Ibanez, movies, Robert Forster, robots, Sci-fi, Solar flares

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