By Farah Cheded
From the relationship between church and state and animal rights to civilisational clashes and the dark side of the mind, the Planet of the Apes movies of 1968, 2011, 2014 and 2017 each spotlight a complex issue of their day, illuminating it for the benefit of humanity as only sci-fi can.
Over a century’s worth of dreams have been chased to the West Coast state, so it’s no wonder that California’s sunny locales have been used in skeptical, neurotic movies about the American Dream to make their brutal subversion of it all the more cutting. Here, we take a look at how this has been done.
As a dystopian look at our future, ‘Blade Runner’ mapped the worries of 1982 onto a then-distant 2019, extrapolating how contemporary fears might come to be realized in the future.
Three reasons why ‘King Arthur: Legend of the Sword’ and ‘Conan the Barbarian’ both bombed.
The Internet’s favorite jokes aren’t just funny.
Since Get Out, there has been much talk of the political utility of the horror genre, but with movies like ‘Hell or High Water’ and ‘Mad Max: Fury Road’ reaffirming that social comment isn’t the sole property of horror films, could the “dying” Western enjoy new life, post-election?
