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The Game's Trickery Meets Disturbia's Setting In Seminar Got a sassy teen? Now you can punish their heathen ways by hiring an evil consulting firm to mess with their reality their life and their sanity. CBS Films have purchased Richard D'Ovidio's spec screenplay The Seminar based on the ideas that you can pay someone else to mess up your kids mentally. With a theme of corporate reality distortion — possibly including brain implants — this could be a stealth science fiction gem. [The Hollywood Reporter]

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15 Great Movies You Didn't Know Were Science Fiction

The greatest science fiction movies sometimes aren't labeled as science fiction at all. As with literary novels like The Road and The Confessions of Max Tivoli, some classic movies explore alternate or futuristic worlds, even as they slip under the radar of mainstream (or alternative) audiences. Call them slipstream, or "stealth science fiction." Here's our list of 15 great movies you may be familiar with, but didn't know were science fiction. More »

10:00 AM on Mon Mar 24 2008
By Charlie Jane Anders
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Latest by Loserface: @MajorMattMason: I got that it was satire, but that still didn't make it a good film. I think its a lot more interesting and creative to write a plausible and completely divergent history that reflect our world. What they did more »