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Vince Gilligan, who also made Breaking Bad, says he didn’t intend to make Plur1bus ahout AI – yet the links are undeniable.
From 1980s sci-fi films to today’s blockbusters, filmmakers have wrestled with questions about what happens when humans rely on intelligent machines.
Our experts review seven new streaming offerings, including a true crime series on the horrifying British serial killers Fred and Rose West.
Using films like “The Matrix,” a sociology course examines how factors beyond our control shape the world we live in − in fact and in an imagined future.
Local writers, painters, musicians and philosophers have long been inspired by the Black cultural movement that pulls from the past to envision the future.
Zimmer creates a sound world full of texture, personality and new timbral possibilities.
Despite their scarcity, science fiction books are highly sought after by elementary school students.
Researchers have grown the first human-monkey hybrid embryos as well as mouse embryos in artificial wombs late into development. These biomedical breakthroughs raise different ethical quandaries.
The sequel to 2018’s Occupation, this new alien invasion film is overly ambitious, both incomprehensible and shrill.
The eerie San Francisco skyline evoked sci-fi movies for a reason. Filmmakers are increasingly using color grading to tinge their films with two hues, orange and teal, to unsettle viewers.
A somewhat obscure 2003 science-fiction film has a luminous soundtrack, which brings surprising solace to a locked down world.
That gentle voice coming from your smart speaker is more complex than she seems.
Psychologists have stigmatised science fiction fans as losers who retreat into fantasy worlds. This is unfair.
Blade Runner’s vision of the future didn’t quite eventuate. Current TV shows such as Years and Years and Black Mirror explore more extreme versions of the present.
If sci-fi films mirror the world’s contemporary dystopian anxieties, then over the years Star Wars has gone from nuclear war to environmental collapse.
Cult film The Matrix was released 20 years ago this month. From Plato to Baudrillard, the film explored philosophical dilemmas we are still wrestling with today.
A Chinese sci-fi epic is breaking box office records and exporting a vision of a new world order as it does so.
As fictional inventors make terrible choices on the big screen, real-world tech innovators can learn from their example how not to make the same kinds of ethical mistakes.
When it was released in 1999, The Matrix introduced a new type of image: bullet-time. Bruce Isaacs explains why it has become one of the most influential special effects in the history of cinema.
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