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Creator or Creature? A Nightmare Wakes dramatizes the birth of Frankenstein

Alix Wilton Regan stars as Mary Shelley in the throes of creating her timeless literary masterpiece in A Nightmare Wakes. It’s one of the most famous origin stories in literary history. One summer night in 1816 in Geneva, Lord Byron hosted a gathering of his fellow Romantics, including Percy Shelley and his lover (soon-to-be wife), […]

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For All Mankind S2 video, AR app show more of the 1980s battle for the Moon

Enlarge / A shot from For All Mankind‘s second season. (credit: Apple) More science fiction is headed to Apple TV+, according to a new video and report. Apple has published a “first look featurette” video and related augmented reality app for its alternate-history space-program drama For All Mankind‘s second season, and the report claims a drama about […]

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A couple clings to shared past amid a memory-wiping pandemic in Little Fish

Olivia Cooke and Jack O’Connell star as a young couple struggling to stay together as a memory-wiping virus spreads unchecked in Little Fish. A young couple fights to hold its relationship together in the midst of pandemic, where a memory loss virus is robbing everyone of their memories in Little Fish, a new science fiction […]

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“Warp speed,” “Prime Directive” predate Star Trek, per new reference tool

Enlarge / The term “warp drive” actually predates its first use in the long-running Star Trek franchise by 14 years. (credit: Paramount Pictures) There’s no denying the profound influence that the Star Trek franchise has had on our shared popular culture. But it turns out that some of the best-known terms associated with the series—transporter, […]

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Owen Wilson must choose between real and fantasy worlds in Bliss trailer

Owen Wilson and Salma Hayek star in the forthcoming science fiction film Bliss. Owen Wilson (Shanghai Noon, Zoolander) plays a man who finds himself flitting between two worlds, one of which is supposedly a simulation, in Bliss, a new science fiction film coming to Amazon Prime next month that co-stars Salma Hayek (Desperado, Frida). Sure, the basic […]

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Poignant The Midnight Sky wrestles with whether mankind is worth saving

Director George Clooney and assembled cast members answered questions via Zoom about the new Netflix feature film, The Midnight Sky. (credit: Netflix) “I hate being cold more than anything in the world,” actor/director George Clooney confesses in a featurette (embedded below) on the making of his new post-apocalyptic science fiction film, The Midnight Sky.  But […]

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Humanity is at Risk of becoming obsolete Technologies in LX 2048 

James D’Arcy celebrities as a terminally ill person who receives the opportunity to”update” his lifetime at Guy Moshe’s sci-fi movie LX 2048. A fatally sick person attempts to procure the future of his loved ones in a near-future globe in which the toxicity of sunlight compels people to stay indoors during the day at LX […]

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Greenland is Just as much a Romance as an epic Scene of impending Tragedy

The Earth is confronting an extinction-level occasion in an interstellar comet for a guy and his household race against time to find safe refuge in Greenland, a fresh tragedy thriller starring Gerard Butler (300, Angel Has Fallen) and led by Ric Roman Waugh (Snitch, Angel Has Fallen). (Some spoilers below, however, no significant shows ) […]

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What makes The Expanse Indeed great: Great science, balancing epic Together with All Private

Expand / The Expanse yields to Amazon Prime for a second epic period. (charge: Amazon Prime) Amazon Prime’s epic science fiction show The Expanse is back for the fifth year. Inside her inspection a week,” Ars’ Tech Policy Reporter Kate Cox called it”the finest [year ] because its original, a long-awaited high-stakes payoff to many seasons’ […]

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Daisy Ridley, Tom Holland are hunted on distant planet in Chaos Walking trailer

Tom Holland and Daisy Ridley star in Chaos Walking, a film adaptation of the award-wining trilogy by Patrick Ness. A young man and woman on a distant planet called the New World find themselves on the run from a town of religious fanatics in Chaos Walking, a forthcoming film directed by Doug Limon and based […]