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false utopias

Paradise Is A Lie: A History Of False Utopias

If you're living in a shiny happy world where everything is provided to you, and your white pajamas never ever get stained, then chances are you're in a false utopia. Someone's going to be coming and harvesting your organs, or culling you at age 30, or drugging you into obedience. The fake paradise built on a foundation of shit seems to flourish most during times when technology seems to be solving all our problems (like during the dotcom boom.) Click through for a list of false utopias. More »

10:11 AM on Tue Mar 25 2008
By Charlie Jane Anders
9,716 views, 83 comments

Latest by Silver_Back: @Metropolis: Oh, I should've been clear with what I said! :x What I meant was the idea of a dedicated facility based off on clones being used as organ "donors". The movie all around was pretty blah...and yes more »

rupert murdoch

Science Fiction's Army Of Rupert Murdochs

Fifty years ago, nobody could have imagined that one person would wield the mind-shaping power Rupert Murdoch now holds. His print and electronic media empire is in itself science fictional, so it's no surprise that scifi is full of Murdoch stand-ins. Click through to find out which science fiction creator named his lethal tumor after Murdoch, and which one of Murdoch's best friends skewered him in a scifi book. More »

2:40 PM on Mon Mar 3 2008
By Charlie Jane Anders
3,051 views, 26 comments

william gibson

Two Gibson Adaptations, But Only One Peter Weir Movie

Hayden "Anakin" Christensen will star in a movie adaptation of William Gibson's classic novel Neuromancer, directed by Joseph Kahn. So far, Kahn's only credits are the low-budget biker movie Torque, and some Britney Spears music videos. (Torque does feature lots of spooky flickering neon lights, which is a start.) The slightly more experienced Peter Weir (The Truman Show) will be directing the movie of Gibson's Pattern Recognition.

10:00 AM on Mon Jan 7 2008
By charliejane
2,171 views, 63 comments

age play in movies

Four Dystopian Movies Starring Adult Babies

Why do dystopian-future movies always turn their protagonists into sexless infants? Often, our hero is reduced to the mental status of a confused toddler, and may actually end up hairless and naked, like Neo in The Matrix, or everyone in THX 1138. We all secretly want to be children again, and dystopian movies indulge this fantasy. Don't believe us? There's a whole mess of adult-baby dark futures after the jump. More »

9:00 AM on Fri Dec 14 2007
By charliejane
838 views, 2 comments

ask the readers

Movies That Take Place Just Barely In The Future


What do you call it when a filmmaker takes the present day and makes it futuristic? Andrew Niccol, who wrote The Truman Show and directed Gattaca, says his movies take place "five minutes into the future." But that's kind of a mouthful. We need a term that you can ask for at your indy video store. More »

9:30 AM on Fri Nov 23 2007
By charliejane
219 views, 1 comment

the truman show

Must See: The Truman Show

Must-see movies are futuristic classics that shouldn't be missed. Of course, not every must-see is perfect. That's why we've rated them 1-5 on the patented "crunchy goodness" scale.

Title: The Truman Show
Date: 1998

Vitals: Though he doesn't know it, Truman has lived his entire life inside a reality TV show. He gradually begins to realize that his friends and family are actors, and all those cheerful descriptions of household items he gets from his wife are product placements. As he struggles to escape his prime-time prison, a TV producer with a god complex struggles to keep him in the spotlight.




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9:49 PM on Sun Sep 30 2007
By Annalee Newitz
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