Most YA books, especially those that debuted in the early aughts, used their heightened worlds as a vehicle for romance. Sophisticated sci-fi and fantasy came second. Suzanne Collins' Hunger Games saga changed that expectation in the 2010s. On some level, this trilogy is just like its YA contemporaries: Collins' prose is almost numbingly spartan, and her protagonists are unbearably one-note.
Anniversary: Brutal and eerily more plausible with every ticking second, director Jan Komasa's skin-crawling thriller imagines a horrific near future where democracy has fallen and American families are at war with each other. Given present circumstances, that might seem a hard sell for already shellshocked viewers. But the extreme scenario presented here should not dissuade you from seeing it. Consider it a dire warning of where the nation could plummet
Artists, being curious people, like to think about the future. Sometimes, as with the legendary 1956 This Is Tomorrow exhibition at the Whitechapel Gallery, they can build a whole movement out of it. Mid 20th-century Pop art types were at it more than most, recycling mass-production images into collages that proclaimed the streamlined, plastic future that many thought was hurtling towards them. It might be instructive therefore to pop along to The Future Was Then at the Cartoon Museum,
Based on the 2015 video game of the same name, Until Dawn follows a group of friends staying at a secluded cabin (classic!) who are trapped in a time loop and are forced to try and survive until morning every day. Dying resets the loop, which only increases the danger with each new trial. The film was helmed by Annabelle: Creation (2017) director David F. Sandberg, who just signed on to direct two more horror films for Netflix in the near future.
Cyberpunk 2077 swings back and forth on the pendulum from 'thoughtful meditation on what it means to be human in a depersonalizing corporate hellscape' to 'satire that occasionally feels so comically exaggerated, it's like a Borderlands gag.'
Gethan Dickâs dystopia begins at Elephant and Castle in London, revealing underlying truths and the fragility of civilization amidst a relentless pandemic and societal decay.
