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While some dystopian stories have gained mainstream acclaim, there's so many more incredible post-apocalyptic stories for sci ...

Terry Gilliam's 'Brazil' almost fell apart thanks to studio meddling. But now, with a new Criterion release, it's considered ...

The 2000 animated film Titan A.E. remains one of the most undderrated sci-fi films around, and deserves a resurgence.

Farms are sucking up all the water from the lower Colorado River basin, and AI threatens to make it even worse.

But fictional portraits of AI have pretty much never looked like the actual present of AI. All those killer Terminators, rebellious Westworld robots, and nuke-hijacking supercomputers have nothing to ...

Most movies set in the future get things terribly wrong. But sometimes, they hit the nail on the head with eery accuracy.

Photo: Reuters The best dystopian fiction has normally been set decades into the future. George Orwell wrote Nineteen Eighty-Four in the 1940s. Stanley Kubrick made 2001: A Space Odyssey in the late ...

Brazil, The Hunger Games, and A Clockwork Orange are all among the best and most provocative dystopian movies you need to ...

Pertinent questions are asked: what does the world look like after the veil of civilisation has lifted? What continues to ...

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