How politics crept into genre TV and film, changing it from fun entertainment to dour sermonising (video).
The Critical Drinker, aka Will Jordan, lays down his thesis that politics has grimly crept into much of the genre
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The Handmaid’s Tale, season 5 trailer (video).
The Handmaid’s Tale season 5 now has a trailer out for this dark future TV series. While attempting to rediscover
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The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power (Amazon Prime fantasy TV series: trailer).
Coming to Amazon Prime in September 2022, it’s the Jeff Bezos fantasy take on Tolkien: The Lord of the Rings
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Day Shift (Netflix horror movie: trailer).
The brand-new vampire movie Day Shift will debut on Netflix on August 12th, 2022. Jamie Foxx plays a hardworking blue collar
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Thoughts on ‘Quatermass’ and ‘Quatermass And The Pit’ : film comments by Mark R. Leeper
I was at my last Toronto International Film Festival, likely to remain my last Toronto International Film Festival ever for
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Eric Flint, U.S. science fiction author, dies (news).
Baen Books, the main publisher for U.S. science fiction author Eric Flint, has posted the sad news of Eric’s passing
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Galaxy Quest: look back in hanker (scifi film retrospective).
Throughout the 1990s, science fiction television was dominated by the Star Trek series. Galaxy Quest, however, was one of several
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Have we already past the A.I. singularity? (science video)
Recently, Google’s LaMDA chat technology and AI were featured in an interview with computer scientist and machine learning bias researcher
Read MoreClones (short scifi film in full).
In the short science fiction film Clones by Rafael Bolliger, a brilliant man on board a space station is ready
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Contact: a film review by Mark R. leeper.
Capsule: The first contact with an alien race has a huge impact on society. We see that impact through the
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