| 单词 | dystopian |
| 例句 | “You know, sometimes it does feel like we’re in one of those trendy dystopian novels,” she admitted. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z “If my mom smells me reeking of booze, she’ll lock me up in my room until the dystopian future arrives. That is, if we aren’t living in one now.” Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z “It’s a dystopian, scary world, but it’s a romantic movie about two people who want to be together, but they can’t,” Mason told Entertainment Weekly. Michael Bay pandemic movie trailer criticized as 'exploitation cinema' 2020-10-30T04:00:00Z The second is as a movie, an elegant and intelligent contribution to the flourishing genre of dystopian allegory. ‘Citizenfour,’ a Documentary About Edward J. Snowden 2014-10-23T04:00:00Z In the end, “Assisted Living” settles for being amusing, entertaining, life-affirming rather than alarmist and dystopian. In ‘Assisted Living,’ the Golden Girls (and guys) meet Orwell 2013-04-29T19:14:35Z The “Dirty Projectors” album was completed before the beginning of the Trump administration, with its perpetual political strife and dystopian implications. Dirty Projectors Find Love in Dystopian Times on ‘Lamp Lit Prose’ 2018-07-11T04:00:00Z “A world inhabited only by robots, their billionaire owners and a large and increasingly restive population is the plotline for countless dystopian fantasies, but it’s a reality that appears to be drawing closer.” 7 New Books We Recommend This Week 2018-07-19T04:00:00Z The second verse, the one Smith paused on, describes a dystopian nightmare state, a landscape ravaged by a surreal despair: A Transcendent Patti Smith Accepts Bob Dylan’s Nobel Prize 2016-12-10T05:00:00Z But the idea is gripping, there’s already the sense that the creators have thoroughly imagined a dystopian world, and scenes in the pilot are genuinely chilling. Review: The Best and Worst of the New Amazon Pilot Season 2015-01-16T05:00:00Z It’s dystopian “Jeopardy!”: not the trivia game we wanted, but the one we deserve. How HQ Trivia Became the Best Worst Thing on the Internet 2018-01-05T05:00:00Z Reports from the London Pleasure Gardens' official opening a week earlier had not been promising: a dystopian dust bowl, most people said, inhospitable and lacking in atmosphere. Bloc 2012: making music out of chaos 2012-07-09T16:48:00Z That certainly appears to be the case — the story is full of revealing backstories — but readers hoping for a complementary classic of dystopian literature may be disappointed. Review | Praise be: Margaret Atwood has published a sequel to ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ 2019-09-03T04:00:00Z Late last week, it was the No. 2 bestseller on Amazon behind George Orwell’s dystopian classic, “1984.” ‘Hillbilly Elegy’ made J.D. Vance the voice of the Rust Belt. But does he want that job? 2017-02-06T05:00:00Z The idea was to force us to confront the hows and whys of its dystopian premise. Perspective | ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ used to feel provocative. Now it’s just exhausting. 2021-04-28T04:00:00Z The year 2022 had whole dystopian side plots related to targeting womanhood. Perspective | This was the tired year 2022-12-30T05:00:00Z The series is haunted by feelings of ambivalence from the scientists who are cautious about tipping the scales towards a possible dystopian future. Unnatural Selection: the eye-opening Netflix docuseries on gene editing 2019-10-17T04:00:00Z The goal of making the world a better place has been replaced by dystopian narratives about how to survive alone in a world whose destruction is just a matter of time. Are the politics of “incivility” paving the road to an American fascism? Part 1 of 2 2018-09-01T04:00:00Z A decade and a half after the fall of civilization, everyone still looks like models from a dystopian Tommy Hilfiger catalog. Test Pilot: Revolution 2012-07-02T11:57:59Z As expected, Hulu’s adaptation of Margaret Atwood’s dystopian novel about the repression of women, “The Handmaid’s Tale,” was honored as best drama, matching its win last year at the Emmy Awards. A Golden Globes Draped in Black Warily Addresses #MeToo 2018-01-07T05:00:00Z At one point in “Alita: Battle Angel” — another dystopian fantasy that reminds you of just how visionary the original “Blade Runner” was — the cyborg heroine gets a new body. ‘Alita: Battle Angel’ Review: Do Female Cyborgs Dream of Breasts? 2019-02-12T05:00:00Z She has been subsisting on a diet of “Slurry,” a “fully dystopian” nutritive gel. Ken Burns’s ‘Vietnam War’ comes in a powerful audiobook version you’ve got to hear 2017-10-09T04:00:00Z The displays gather commercial ephemera and art, planning sketches and memorabilia, utopian and dystopian imaginings; the portrait is filled out in a generously illustrated catalog. Last Chance: ?Cars, Culture, and the City? at Museum of the City of New York 2010-07-19T22:03:00Z And the most recent Rapp work I visited, last year’s dystopian comedy “Dreams of Flying Dreams of Falling,” felt like a turbocharged compilation of every absurdist classic from Ionesco to Albee. Theater Review: Adam Rapp’s ‘Through the Yellow Hour,’ at Rattlestick 2012-09-28T02:00:00Z Who would have thought that the dystopian future we pictured, was baseball limping along, and maybe within five years of going defunct altogether? Hank Azaria: "For Mets fans, the bad news is there's no games. The good news is there's no games" 2020-06-18T04:00:00Z “War With the Newts,” published in 1936, is a funny, bizarre, dystopian masterpiece, and Capek deserves a place on the Mount Rushmore of authorial seers, right alongside George Orwell, Aldous Huxley and Margaret Atwood. In Praise of Karel Capek 2018-08-16T04:00:00Z He demonstrated his ability to accurately transcribe a barely-legible original manuscript of Orwell’s dystopian novel “1984” by disporting his skills in paleography, the study of ancient and antiquated writing systems. Peter Davison, Orwell Scholar on a Monumental Scale, Dies at 95 2022-09-15T04:00:00Z When the new law was first proposed, abortion rights demonstrators took to the Texas Capitol in Austin dressed as characters from the dystopian TV adaptation of Margaret Atwood’s “The Handmaid’s Tale.” Perspective | Abortion has always been a tough subject for Hollywood. ‘Parenthood’ got it right. 2021-09-04T04:00:00Z McAvoy has been for his role as the doomed, homicidal ruler in the play, set in a dystopian Scotland around fifty years into the future. McAvoy shares Olivier award doubts 2013-04-22T10:41:11Z As in Lanthimos’s dystopian dating satire The Lobster and in the aforementioned Phantom Thread, there’s an unusual willingness to smash open preconceived notions of what love means, focusing instead on the grisly truth. Why The Favourite should win the best picture Oscar 2019-02-15T05:00:00Z In their prolix dystopian theater piece “Returning to Albert Joseph,” writer Spike Friedman and The Satori Group envision a society in a continual state of peace. ‘Albert Joseph ’ visualizes a society of mind control 2014-05-08T22:09:23Z Catering to younger audiences, the animated stop-motion film “The Boxtrolls” and young adult dystopian action film “The Maze Runner” rounded out the top five. Strong debuts of 'Gone Girl,' 'Annabelle' boost box office 2014-10-05T04:00:00Z Will Adamsdale's musical comedy is the latest from a man whose work includes the Perrier Award-winning Jackson's Way and the dystopian comedy, The Receipt. This week's new theatre 2013-03-16T06:00:14Z Science fiction is the home genre of dystopian literature, and any knowledgeable student of the form can lay out dystopias for you like a car salesman can talk up his floor models: Dystopias are fantastic in fiction. But do you really want to live in one? 2016-11-04T04:00:00Z Did you set out to write a dystopian novel? "You have to think about hope": Author Silas House on democracy's demise, climate refugees and dogs 2022-09-27T04:00:00Z Four sisters stumble on a conspiracy while trying to survive in a dystopian version of Philadelphia. Are you ready for a 'gritty,' dystopian TV version of Louisa May Alcott's 'Little Women'? 2015-07-30T04:00:00Z It’s a nifty dystopian conceit, but it reinforces the air of presumption that sands down the pleasures of “Users.” ‘Users’ Review: Brave New World 2023-06-08T04:00:00Z When the going gets tough, the dystopian futurists get busy. Review: 'Her Mother Was Imagination' is a drab showing of dystopia at Annex 2010-08-12T20:27:00Z We also hear a bit from the glorious Ninth Symphony by Ludwig van Beethoven, as if to announce “Brexit” as a dystopian thriller glossing an apocalypse currently in progress. In “Brexit,” Benedict Cumberbatch Is a Peculiar Man Who Wants to Upend the Order of the World 2019-01-18T05:00:00Z “There is something very cathartic about thinking about dystopian futures,” says “Pillowman” set designer Paige Hathaway. How to design a dystopian play 2016-04-07T04:00:00Z Factor in climate change, nuclear disasters and space colonies, and the ultimate dystopian universe reveals itself — part tech-slick playground, part cautionary tale. It’s the Year 2172: Time to Fight the Bloody Biafran War Again 2019-11-06T05:00:00Z By contrast, Ullmann’s dystopian vision is of a world so rotten that even Death refuses to work there, leaving people unable to die. Review | At Wolf Trap Opera, Gluck and Ullman make for strange bedfellows 2019-06-27T04:00:00Z The Scorch Trials” adds nothing new to the unkillable dystopian genre, but it’s at least less ponderous than its predecessor. Review: ‘Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials’ Pits Hardy Teenagers Against a Mysterious Organization 2015-09-17T04:00:00Z Howard Jacobson’s “J” shifts from the contemporary London Jewish world of “The Finkler Question”, which won the Booker Prize in 2010, to a dystopian setting around 60 years in the future. How the Man Booker short-list contenders shape up 2014-10-11T04:00:00Z To be sure, Orwell said that what he wrote in his dystopian novels were warnings rather than predictions, but let's forget about that for a moment. What would George Orwell have made of the world in 2013? 2013-01-24T06:00:00Z Kode9 used crisp digital tones and a video tour of a sterile architectural model, a “notel,” to open up dystopian hollows in dance music. At Moogfest, a Demonstration of What Human and Machine Can Accomplish 2016-05-23T04:00:00Z The novel's title is of course a play on Big Brother, from the granddaddy of all dystopian SF, George Orwell's 1984. Future tech: Big Brother, big data or creator culture? 2013-03-14T10:26:52Z How did we get to this dystopian wasteland in so short a time? Mad Max at 40: how the low-budget original remains a film-making feat 2020-02-13T05:00:00Z Much like “The Hunger Games,” “Divergent” is about a young woman with exceptional abilities living in a highly regimented dystopian society, who is called upon to lead a revolution against the established social order. From Gryffindor to Dauntless: “Insurgent” and our obsession with young adult sorting rituals 2015-03-18T04:00:00Z Divergent‘s dystopian action series with a strong female lead predecessor, Suzanne Collins’ Hunger Games trilogy, clocked a total of $2.3 billion at the global box office. 'Insurgent' And Why Young Adult Novels Make Box Office Hits 2015-03-25T04:00:00Z Published in 1973, the dystopian novel details how a flotilla of Indian migrants reach France’s southern coast to invade the country. A Racist Book’s Malign and Lingering Influence 2019-11-22T05:00:00Z It is not “Harry Potter” or “Twilight,” but there are echoes of those phenomena in the reception of “Mockingjay,” the final volume of Suzanne Collins’s “Hunger Games” books, a trilogy of dystopian young-adult novels. Booksellers Brace for ?Mockingjay? Landing 2010-08-23T22:15:00Z Disaster-filled dystopian stories abound in movies, television and fiction; news headlines verge on apocalyptic. A Sci-Fi Writer Returns to Earth: ‘The Real Story Is the One Facing Us’ 2022-05-11T04:00:00Z To be frank, it’s not an easy read, but in a crowded field of dystopian fiction, it’s destabilizing and finally enlightening in a wholly unique way. Review | Banned in China, Sheng Keyi’s ‘Death Fugue’ is a pungent political satire 2021-08-10T04:00:00Z Now that we live in a dystopian hellscape news-wise, it’s easy to see a similar risk in our expectations of the world at large. Got high hopes for 2018? Lower them, or you may be setting yourself up for a fall | Oliver Burkeman 2018-01-05T05:00:00Z He’s as familiar with Thoreau and Emerson as he is with Walter Benjamin, the author of “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction,” and the dystopian science-fiction writer J. G. Ballard. Books of The Times: ‘Tubes,’ by Andrew Blum, Explores Physical Reality of the Web 2012-06-19T14:31:24Z And how many dystopian thrillers give René Descartes a significant role? ‘Spark,’ the Latest Dystopian Novel From John Twelve Hawks 2014-10-05T04:00:00Z They’ll be the dystopian action “Purge” franchise and “Knives Out,” which tweaked issues like immigration, white privilege, lefty-academic jargon and the arrogance of unearned wealth with relaxed, lighthearted precision. Perspective | Movies are rushing to impact the election. Don’t ask whether they’ll work. Ask whether they’ll last. 2020-10-29T04:00:00Z There are blazers with strong shoulders, roomy trousers, tweeds and houndstooth and argyle, crinkly satin gowns, ecclesiastical dresses, dystopian cloaks and platform shoes. Perspective | Chanel, what has become of you? Paris Fashion Week ends with a bust and then a bang. 2020-03-05T05:00:00Z The dystopian worlds of “Blade Runner” and “Black Rain” remind that human ambition creates mortal collateral damage, while “Gladiator” and “Blackhawk Down” are tutorials in the limits and pitfalls of imperialism. Film: Ridley Scott?s New Spectacle Film: ?Robin Hood? 2010-05-07T23:29:00Z “The Hunger Games” is a dystopian tale set in a postwar North America divided into 13 districts; “Divergent” is a dystopian tale set in postwar Chicago divided into five factions. Movie Review: In ‘Divergent,’ Jolted Awake by Fear and Romance 2014-03-20T14:31:38Z There is nothing akin to the icy, underlit branches of 2017 that turned the East Colonnade into what some likened to a barren, dystopian landscape. The White House Christmas Decorations Look Strikingly Normal 2020-11-30T05:00:00Z The first book in a sci-fi dystopian series, “Unwind” takes place after a civil war over reproductive rights. 6 Thought-Provoking Y.A. Thrillers That Tackle Social Issues 2023-07-26T04:00:00Z Throughout Black Mirror, for example, we get dystopian glimpses at new technologies that offer possibilities to connect, and also threaten to tear lovers apart from one another. Love after life: how TV imagines relationships beyond the grave 2018-10-11T04:00:00Z The jokes roll until the play takes a sharp dystopian turn. ‘Mothers’ Review: Mommy and Me and the Apocalypse 2019-09-25T04:00:00Z Like the two other such soundtracks, "Mockingjay" harnesses current acts to convey the film's dystopian themes, and that grim drama apparently requires lots of echo. 'Hunger Games' soundtrack leaves listeners sated 2014-11-17T05:00:00Z It's so dystopian that there's a wall between nations and people. Stefan Merrill Block on his new novel 'Oliver Loving,' which follows the fallout of a tragedy in a small West Texas town 2018-01-19T05:00:00Z It imagines a dystopian near-future, in which there are robots that look like us, sound like us and – increasingly – act like us, causing increasing disquiet among their human “masters”. 'Humans' on AMC: TV's Future Is Half-Robot, Half-British 2015-06-28T04:00:00Z Times architecture critic Christopher Hawthorne looks at the architecture of new film “High-Rise,” based on the dystopian novel by J.G. Roundup: Palestinian Museum opens empty, George Lucas museum still looking for a home, a Zaha Hadid retrospective 2016-05-16T04:00:00Z In recent years his work took on oceanic themes, sometimes with a dystopian twist. Ashley Bickerton, Unflinchingly Honest About His Work and Illness 2022-12-12T05:00:00Z The festival’s biggest failure is “A Welcome Guest: A Psychotic Fairy Tale,” a flabby dystopian fable about hospitality gone wrong in post-apocalyptic America. Review | Anxious men and other world-builders at CATF 2019 2019-07-09T04:00:00Z The Mad Max series, inspired by the 1973 oil crisis, is as much about conflict over the scarcity of resources as it is about a lone hero struggling to survive in a dystopian world. Watch the Thrilling Trailer for Mad Max: Fury Road 2014-07-27T04:00:00Z Remember her dystopian “Hunger Games” contemporary dance that nabbed a near-perfect score a few weeks back? 'Dancing With the Stars' recap: Willow's out, Sasha's in as competition twists, turns 2015-04-28T04:00:00Z Antiheroes, massacres, dystopian struggles in post-apocalyptic settings and surprise deaths — all of these are routine occurrences. Perspective | In an age of anger and outrage, the best TV shows take a different path: They’re sad. 2018-09-12T04:00:00Z In this excerpt of her book, the dystopian nature of this life is on full display. The top US opinion stories of 2017: critiquing a tumultuous year 2017-12-29T05:00:00Z Little hint of this dystopian side to the Black Mountain experiment comes through in the exhibition or its sumptuous catalog. The Short Life and Long Legacy of Black Mountain College 2015-12-17T05:00:00Z Alongside the decor of a sea of squashed silver soda cans, they pointed to a hot yet trashy dystopian future. Balmain calls for peace and truth in Paris Fashion Week show 2022-03-02T05:00:00Z “I’m biased against apps,” he said, because they seem “like an experience that will jade you. Everything is sort of measured, a little dystopian.” Date Lab: Their pairing was a mystery to him 2018-07-10T04:00:00Z In his review, Professor Lilla called the book a “dystopian conversion novel.” Michel Houellebecq, Casually Provocative 2015-10-12T04:00:00Z The first is a dystopian vision of a world in which all systems are failing. Can’t Sleep? Let Stephen King Keep You Company 2020-04-19T04:00:00Z It brings the series to an extremely tragic conclusion: No mutant has been born in a quarter century and the world is a dystopian hellhole. "Dark Phoenix" is an unworthy X-Men finale 2019-06-07T04:00:00Z “Hipster spawn” would be the only survivors of this dystopian future because, what do hipsters like more than something retro? Best Comedy of 2019 2019-12-17T05:00:00Z He incorporates a variety of genres and influences, from dystopian, futuristic science fiction and dark comedy to parental drama and romance, with a Wild-West shootout and even some "Terminator" thrown in. Review: `Looper' takes you to unexpected places 2012-09-26T01:55:08Z Privacy Etsy's social media DIY-saster When we used to think about dystopian Big Brother scenarios, the horror stemmed from an invasion of our personal lives by an all-seeing, all-knowing secret police. Etsy's social media DIY-saster 2011-03-15T18:57:00Z The fourth artist, Andrew Hladky, burrows deeply into fable, inspired by a dystopian novel. In the galleries: Personal and political perspectives on the past 2021-02-17T05:00:00Z “She could lead us into a horrible dystopian future too!” Dystopias are fantastic in fiction. But do you really want to live in one? 2016-11-04T04:00:00Z “We’re All Going to the World’s Fair,” the debut narrative feature from Jane Schoenbrun, exploits the overlap between tedium and fright, and locates both in the everyday dystopian realm of the internet. ‘We’re All Going to the World’s Fair’ Review: Is It Horror, or Just Ennui? 2022-04-13T04:00:00Z All the action in their contest is focused on the count, and it is something out of a dystopian thriller about office tedium. A month later, this New York City primary is still a train wreck and a warning to us all 2020-07-25T04:00:00Z And in Jessamine Chan’s dystopian novel “The School for Good Mothers,” Frida is sleep deprived and drowning in work when she leaves her toddler at home alone for two hours. Mommy Is Going Away for a While 2022-01-14T05:00:00Z The film, based on The Snow Queen, took £4.7m in its opening week, pushing the dystopian sequel into second place. Frozen dampens Hunger Games' Fire 2013-12-11T11:28:03Z I’ve had an idea for a science fiction/futuristic/dystopian novel for years but never find time to do more than think about it. By the Book: Donna Leon 2019-03-07T05:00:00Z If Winslet can be persuaded to slum it as a dystopian baddie in the Divergent movies, she could hardly turn down the chance to play the first-ever female Bond. It's time for Jane Bond: I spy seven potential 007 actors perfect for the role 2016-05-31T04:00:00Z "Captive State" is dystopian because the human race is under occupation by an authoritarian regime. "Captive State" director Rupert Wyatt on sci-fi, commercial failure and the age of Trum 2019-04-28T04:00:00Z Besides, this mad dystopian crime opera has already left its mark. Luther is back with more comic-book gore and fantastical crimes 2013-06-29T05:00:00Z Meanwhile, Monáe’s full-length accompanying video — billed as an “emotion picture” — is far more dystopian. The 28 Best Albums of 2018 2018-12-06T05:00:00Z And current events — actual real world happenings — are inching toward meeting up with early days of the dystopian nightmare that is Gilead much more than a woman like me is comfortable with. "The Handmaid's Tale" is so brilliant and relevant that I can't stand it 2018-06-27T04:00:00Z I'm not entirely wedding to dystopian futures, however - if it's good enough, I might be tempted out of this small literary niche. The Passage: a post-apocalyptic vampire tale you can get your teeth into 2010-06-11T08:46:00Z There is even an adjective for his distinctive, dystopian themes in the Collins English dictionary: Ballardian. JG Ballard archive acquired for British Library 2010-06-10T15:10:00Z Thanks to Amazon’s aggressive courting of law enforcement agencies, Ring users are being deputized into a deeply dystopian public-private spying partnership. What were we thinking? The worst trends of the decade – ranked! 2019-12-23T05:00:00Z On that harrowing, dystopian AMC series, tormented humans scramble to survive and it’s the insentient zombies who enjoy the pleasures of the flesh. Alessandra Stanley Sizes Up 2013 TV Fare 2013-12-13T19:27:53Z Two weeks after Donald Trump’s inauguration, ‘The Handmaid’s Tale” was one of several dystopian novels — along with George Orwell’s “1984” — seeing a resurgence on bestseller lists. Why I banned “The Handmaid’s Tale” — and why we need it more than ever 2017-04-30T04:00:00Z He had another hit with the dystopian comedy, The Receipt. This week's new theatre 2011-03-12T00:07:43Z If you enjoy dystopian novels, you might want to try Divergent by Veronica Roth. Reader reviews roundup 2013-03-29T08:00:00Z “The Memory Police” alludes to a host of storied works of dystopian fiction, positioning itself in the lineage of George Orwell’s “1984” and Ray Bradbury’s “Fahrenheit 451.” Review | In ‘The Memory Police,’ an authoritarian government tries to erase the past 2019-08-15T04:00:00Z Some say reality show, some say dystopian drama. Perspective | TV viewers want the world — and the George Floyd story — to make sense. Good luck with that. 2020-06-02T04:00:00Z Back when I started saying that, long before I got an agent or a book deal, dystopian novels were at the peak of their popularity and Obama was president. Why I set my Young Adult novel about abortion in the 1990s 2019-09-08T04:00:00Z The live action remake laughs in the face of this message by turning the dystopian game show premise into reality. From "Parasite" to "Squid Game," America of course exploited South Korea's anti-capitalist content 2023-08-28T04:00:00Z A long line of dystopian satires has programmed us to expect every brave new world to flash its soylent green side sooner or later. Margaret Atwood’s ‘The Heart Goes Last’: A satire of unbridled capitalism 2015-09-22T04:00:00Z Or were we destined for a dystopian future with little more to look at than smoggy skies and gargantuan billboards? It Came From the ’80s 2022-08-04T04:00:00Z Groff’s lush and visual second novel begins at a rural commune, and links that utopian past to a dystopian, post-global-warming future. 100 Notable Books of 2012 2012-11-27T16:28:12Z “A dystopian technology future overran our lives before we were ready,” he writes in “Zucked.” An Anti-Facebook Manifesto, by an Early Facebook Investor 2019-01-29T05:00:00Z On Wednesday, The Hollywood Reporter broke news that Universal won a bidding war for the rights to “Little America,” a dystopian adventure movie written by British filmmaker Rowan Athale. Michael Bay is producing a movie that may be set in a Donald Trump-inspired dystopia 2017-01-27T05:00:00Z By now the dystopian future is a familiar trope: It seems every other Hollywood movie warns of a savage world overrun by technology. Micah Ganske puts feeling into his dystopian vision at 101/Exhibit 2015-02-04T05:00:00Z Her retro style and pop songs about androids and dystopian futures have their roots in her Bowie fandom, she explained in 2014, when she covered Bowie’s 1977 classic “Heroes.” 4 Ways David Bowie Influenced Musicians Today 2016-01-11T05:00:00Z Even before the family’s misfortune, life in rural Indiana is represented as a dystopian version of “Little House on the Prairie” — unrelentingly bleak, and spiritually as well as materially impoverished. What if the Thief Who Steals Your Identity Is Your Mom? 2019-10-15T04:00:00Z Land of the Innocent, the debut single, neatly expresses Feathers' desire to combine a dystopian future-world aesthetic with a pop sensibility and rhythms tough enough to pass muster in the realm of the industrial. New band of the day – Feathers (No 1,440) 2013-01-28T18:00:29Z With no real emotions, he becomes the perfect hit man for a corporation that will do anything to ensure order in a dystopian future where people are under constant surveillance and ruthless capitalism reigns. Three sci-fi books to rattle your October "I've read in passing that people were concerned about the level of violence in the books," Collins said of her dystopian trilogy that's sold more than a million copies. Collins, Alexie make list of challenged books 2011-04-11T06:16:04Z Since the Presidential election last November, many people have drawn on dystopian fiction—“The Hunger Games,” in particular—to explain our predicament. An Early Dystopian Trilogy About Resistance—and What Comes After 2017-06-07T04:00:00Z With particularly dystopian flair, the formula shortage came to a head around the same time that a draft opinion leaked from the Supreme Court that would overturn Roe v. Perspective | A lot of powerful people seem to have no clue what motherhood means 2022-05-13T04:00:00Z In truth, she seems to be the only actual writer creating narratives for the humans in this dystopian park. "Westworld" season 4 ending explained 2022-08-19T04:00:00Z A dystopian police helicopter digital buzz and a twisting wormhole of bass explode into chimes and gunfire rhythms, which then explode into actual explosions. Magna Carta Holy Grail – a first-listen review 2013-07-04T14:23:37Z Echoing the government’s Ministry of Truth in George Orwell’s dystopian novel, “1984,” the proposal would establish a “Journalism Ethics Board” to create professional standards for news people. Perspective | A board to oversee Georgia journalists sounds like Orwellian fiction. The proposal is all too real. 2019-04-08T04:00:00Z And the most retweeted tweet of the night went, of course, to the big man himself, describing a terrifying dystopian scenario. The Apprentice, Geordie Shore, Luther: how Twitter watched TV this week 2013-07-15T14:07:58Z These are staples of George Miller's dystopian franchise, and now just about every zombie game ever created. E3: 'Mad Max' game revs up for post-apocalyptic mayhem 2015-06-16T04:00:00Z “Gotham” presents a similar sort of challenge, but its dark, dystopian, highly stylized mode will give it a higher degree of difficulty. Young (Pre-Commissioner) Gordon Is the Hero of ‘Gotham’ 2014-09-21T04:00:00Z The artistically serious, movement-based group in Crystal City takes one of its more unfortunate detours into shouldn’t with a grotesquely expressionistic, barely coherent adaptation of “The Trial,” Franz Kafka’s early-20th-century dystopian novel. Review | On this occasion, lots of bugs in Synetic Theater’s system 2018-01-22T05:00:00Z The family adventure took £3.8m, keeping the latest instalment of dystopian epic The Hunger Games at bay. Paddington holds UK box office lead 2014-12-10T05:00:00Z Beneath this dystopian chiasmus, is brutal and often hilarious satire and nightmare visions of death on the 405. “Tell Me How This Ends Well”: Tricky gods, sex slaves and patricidal Jews 2017-05-28T04:00:00Z But I'm only any good at creating dystopian worlds. Digested classic: Crash by JG Ballard 2010-04-22T13:31:00Z "Hungry City" sounds like the title to a dystopian novel. Rice Balls, Subtle and Showy Alike, at Omusubi Gonbei 2018-04-12T04:00:00Z In 1982, the “Blade Runner” dystopian vision of a fallen, polluted world felt like a cautionary tale; by 2017, the images of a ruined, fallen, overheated world had the shivery immediacy of documentary. Five Sci-Fi Classics, One Summer: How 1982 Shaped Our Present 2022-08-04T04:00:00Z It belongs in the troposphere, in a dystopian sci-fi screenplay, or at the very least in the West Village. Critical Shopper: Shopping At Idol, in Williamsburg, Brooklyn 2014-04-30T23:11:46Z Girls too young to be allowed to read or watch the dystopian “Hunger Games” have found inspiration in Princess Merida, the animated ace archer of the Pixar movie “Brave,” which was released last June 22. ‘Hunger Games’ Heroine Helps Make Archery Hip 2012-11-28T23:39:28Z “It’s not dystopian enough. Everything seems to be dystopian now, and this isn’t.” David Chase on why he wrote The Sopranos: 'I needed help. I needed therapy' 2019-09-16T04:00:00Z “The Handmaid’s Tale” is set in a dystopian future not too distant from the current date. Margaret Atwood visits West Point for a frank conversation on gender, politics and oppression 2015-02-08T05:00:00Z But Godard also stylishly delivers a dystopian love story with a poetic, utopian heart. When Reality Is Scary Enough, These Movies Are Safe Nightmares 2020-04-02T04:00:00Z “You read the autobiographies of the top players, the tropes are exactly the same: alcohol, gambling, fast cars, women trouble, dystopian families,” he said. He Knows His Way Around a Half-Butt (That’s Snooker Talk) 2018-08-31T04:00:00Z De Kretser sets 126 pages of the book in France in the early 1980s; turn the book the other way up and 126 pages take place in a dystopian Australia some decades in the future. Immigrant Lives, Back to Back and Upside Down 2022-04-08T04:00:00Z Its dystopian title refers to a passage from Isaiah that Mr. Kiefer invokes during that interview, which takes place across a table in a bright, airy room lined with bookcases. | 'Over Your Cities Grass Will Grow': Touring an Artist?s Pre-Apocalyptic Realm 2011-08-09T22:26:33Z The third film in this dystopian sci-fi trilogy hits theaters this month. What’s on TV Saturday: Sam Rockwell Hosts ‘S.N.L.,’ and George Lazenby Becomes Bond 2018-01-13T05:00:00Z The future is bleak, according to the award-winning author Chang-rae Lee, who transforms an abandoned Baltimore into B-mor, a high-walled labor colony, as the setting for his dystopian novel “On Such a Full Sea.” Spare Times for Jan. 3-9 2014-01-02T23:33:01Z “Station Eleven,” a quiet dystopian novel, unfolds in North America after a deadly super flu has wiped out most of humanity; a band of Shakespearean actors travels to scattered camps of survivors to perform plays. Fiction Long List Announced for National Book Awards 2014-09-17T04:00:00Z Even the author William Gibson, a founding father of the genre on the page, struggled to bring its dystopian charms to the cinema. Digital love: why cinema can't get enough of cyberpunk 2017-04-03T04:00:00Z It is blithely asserted, for instance, that their hunger for dystopian fiction is whetted by having to live in a bleak world under the pitiless authority of adults. Teen fiction and the shadow of cancer 2013-01-26T10:00:01Z Unpredictability, incompetence and demolition are the dystopian watchwords of the current moment, as the world threatens to fragment before our very eyes. Deconstruction zone: Doubling down on dystopia, preventing the triumph of Trump’s will 2017-03-14T04:00:00Z For a moment we are in the land of “The Hunger Games,” whose cynical portrait of a corrupt ruling class suggests a dystopian Versailles of the future. Review: In ‘A Little Chaos,’ a Guileless Kate Winslet Offsets a Lavish Versailles 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z But “Jubilee” — a dystopian fantasy in which Queen Elizabeth I is transported into a future where nihilist girl-gangs roam a decaying London — is hardly convenience food. Coming Soon to a Stage Near You: Yesteryear’s Movies 2018-02-14T05:00:00Z I love the architecture of the place, with its concrete-heavy Brutalist style that gives it a somewhat dystopian and foreboding feel. How to See London Theater on the Cheap 2016-08-31T04:00:00Z And Leigh Whannell’s dystopian action film “Upgrade” shows the pros and cons of installing a chip inside of a person. SXSW Film: The Movies and Performers That Stood Out 2018-03-15T04:00:00Z That makes it a dystopian tale one piece of genetic material away from being real, which is both fascinating and frightening and perhaps worth experiencing as a simmer instead of a full burn. "Y: The Last Man" presents a fascinating dystopia that probes the artifacts of our gendered world 2021-09-14T04:00:00Z “Because people worry about being under the control of dystopian robot overlords, we’re less likely to be in that situation,” he said. Science Fiction Writers Take a Rosier View 2014-09-17T04:00:00Z My fixation continues with “War of the Worlds,” a particularly dark and dystopian science-fiction adventure whose third season begins Monday on Epix. ‘War of the Worlds’ Review: Dystopia à la Française 2022-09-11T04:00:00Z Little is known about Kelvin’s Book beyond its near future dystopian setting and that it will involved a group of young people who are trying to survive in an uncompromising world. Oscar-winning director Michael Haneke to make 10-part TV series 2018-01-31T05:00:00Z As with most dystopian thrillers, though, the Levinsons provide some dim glimmers of hope. Talking to kids about the Constitution and other best books for young readers 2017-12-05T05:00:00Z However, these grand, idealistic and socialistic dwellings, which seemed utopian to the first generation of occupiers, gradually developed negative, even dystopian connotations. Tonight's TV highlights: Living with The Ayatollah - Panorama 2011-04-11T06:59:01Z I decided to write a story set in the dystopian future. Daniel A. Olivas on his short story collection 'The King of Lighting Fixtures' and more 2017-10-18T04:00:00Z But these days, the dystopian world it conjures begins even before the lights go out. Perspective | D.C. theater is taking cautious steps back to ‘live’ with plexiglass screens and plays on headphones 2021-05-04T04:00:00Z Try naming one fictional depiction of a university creative writing department that isn’t depressingly dystopian. “Girls” goes to Iowa, humiliation ensues: Why pop culture hates MFA programs 2015-01-18T05:00:00Z After almost three breathless hours of pulsating dystopian thrills, we are no closer to filling in many of the gaps in Ridley Scott’s original 1982 dystopian masterwork. Has Blade Runner 2049's failure killed off the smart sci-fi blockbuster? 2017-11-14T05:00:00Z Aldous Huxley’s 1932 dystopian novel, “Brave New World,” has been ripped from the hands of your high school English teacher and thrown onscreen with this new TV adaptation. What’s on TV Thursday: ‘Brave New World’ and ‘Little Voice’ 2020-07-16T04:00:00Z In this sense, V stands alongside the dystopian films that lamented the "progress" made in the 60s. Tony Harrison's poem V is a timeless portrayal of working-class aspiration 2013-02-18T08:00:31Z Sometimes “Anna” feels less like a dystopian drama than a Sicilian travelogue. Review: In ‘Anna,’ the End of Adults, but Not the World 2021-11-17T05:00:00Z Alex Knight, a technology and media investor in Seattle, has a slightly more dystopian view. Why Do We End Summer So Early? 2015-09-05T04:00:00Z Throughout, despite Billy's dystopian view, people are often well-meaning and kind, from the nicely drawn museum staff to the young teacher with whom Billy almost has an affair. Life! Death! Prizes! by Stephen May ? review 2012-05-18T21:55:02Z Today’s utopian and dystopian visions, of course, tend to be set in distant times, not places. What came first, the science or the fiction? The answer is in James Gleick's 'Time Travel' 2016-11-07T05:00:00Z Next month, Lynn Nottage’s “Sweat,” exploring the struggles of working-class Americans, opens at Studio 54, and in June a stage adaptation of George Orwell’s dystopian novel “1984” opens at the Hudson Theater. Onstage, Rapidly Reacting to the Dawn of the Trump Era 2017-02-05T05:00:00Z “I think these dystopian movies and the themes they represent is evident of an undercurrent in American society,” he continued. The Giver: conservative parable or a Hollywood film like any other? 2014-08-20T04:00:00Z A big inspiration is an old-timey kind of science fiction, from back when the genre was not dominated by its dystopian strain. And for His Next Trick, Hopping Genres 2018-01-01T05:00:00Z The novel falters when it reaches into the future, a dystopian vision of a capital drowned by hubris and climate change. Two Thai Novelists Explore Bangkok’s Swirl of Remembering and Forgetting 2019-04-04T04:00:00Z Dimaline’s dystopian thriller shines a light on government policies that extract resources from Indigenous peoples and communities without regard for the consequences. 6 Thought-Provoking Y.A. Thrillers That Tackle Social Issues 2023-07-26T04:00:00Z USA Today's Claudia Puig says "The Giver" is "visually handsome, but disappointing and thematically flattened," and she agrees that it "suffers from comparison to the surfeit of teen-centered dystopian thrillers in recent years." 'The Giver' doesn't get it, reviews say 2014-08-15T04:00:00Z Maybe “Cars 2” is a dystopian allegory for an era of ecological anxiety. | 'Cars 2': Tow Truck Takes the Lead on a Second Lap 2011-06-23T12:00:00Z Larson’s precursor to “Rent,” is a musical about the playwright’s attempts to get his dystopian rock musical, “Superbia,” produced. How Jonathan Larson Taught Me to Become a Better Critic 2022-02-16T05:00:00Z "Riffing on Anderson, Lynch and Gilliam, Ayoade puts his own spin on the dystopian genre with a film that is cerebral, confrontational and surreal." The 10 best films of 2014 (so far) 2014-07-02T04:00:00Z When a comet passes near the earth’s atmosphere in the dour dystopian thriller “Only,” it first brings falling ash and then a virus that is usually fatal to women. ‘Only’ Review: A Desperate Dystopia Where Women Are Erased 2020-03-05T05:00:00Z Chang-rae Lee’s new novel is part folk tale, part picaresque adventure, part dystopian satire. Books of The Times: ‘On Such a Full Sea,’ Chang-rae Lee’s Tale of Dystopia 2014-01-13T20:24:34Z The German tale unspools inside a private compound that serves as a refuge from unspoken dystopian affliction. The Tribeca Festival Returns in Full Bloom 2022-06-08T04:00:00Z That was all the time Maya Sloan allowed herself to Google reviews of the dystopian young adult novel she ghostwrote for Kendall and Kylie Jenner. For Maya Sloan, ghostwriting Jenners' YA book just part of fiction fun 2014-07-01T04:00:00Z The last two narrative strands, in some ways the most conventional, are science-fiction tales set in different dystopian futures that recall HG Wells's The Time Machine and the 1936 film of his Things to Come. Cloud Atlas – review 2013-02-24T00:06:09Z David often reflects on his situation and what he must do to maintain a sense of self-worth in this dystopian future. Colin Farrell's best, most quietly smoldering roles, from "Banshees of Inisherin" to "Phone Booth" 2023-03-10T05:00:00Z Among the first responders were writers offering dystopian fiction and apocalyptic nonfiction, all questioning the durability of democracy under stress. Why Intellectuals Support Dictators 2020-07-19T04:00:00Z Am I being too dystopian about fetal origins research and liability issues? Motherlode: Will Fetal Science Lead to Lawsuits? 2011-07-29T22:01:03Z The film is up against buddy comedy "Let's Be Cops," dystopian adventure "The Giver" and franchise "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles," which is beginning its second weekend. 'The Expendables 3' grosses $875,000 in Thursday night showings 2014-08-15T04:00:00Z A dystopian screed against misogyny and capitalism unfurls against the backdrop of plastic seas and furry sunsets, but “S He” isn’t merely an exercise in symbolism. Five International Movies to Stream Right Now 2021-06-04T04:00:00Z Also on the list is Super Sad True Love Story, a blackly humourous dystopian satire by Gary Shteyngart. Sam Leith and India Knight in running for Wodehouse book prize 2011-04-13T00:00:00Z The movie is set in a dystopian future, a decade after the fall of the western economic system. Pattinson's back, in the future 2014-06-13T04:00:00Z But the ones that betray some passion, like Mercado Little Spain in New York or the new Chaos Kitchen in Tokyo, give you hope that the future doesn’t have to be dystopian. 8 Ways Restaurants Have Changed in the Past Decade 2019-12-17T05:00:00Z Properties are being snapped up one after the next, some of the current dystopian flavor and others attempting to break new ground and be the first to the party. Have Young Adult Adaptations Jumped the Shark? 2014-12-03T05:00:00Z The series inspired an influx in dystopian fiction. Review | How ‘The Outsiders,’ ‘Harry Potter’ and ‘The Hunger Games’ transformed YA fiction 2018-12-24T05:00:00Z Shane Abbess’s dystopian action opus “The Osiris Child: Science Fiction Volume One,” as its title suggests, does not want for ambition. Review: ‘The Osiris Child’ Has It All, and Then Some 2017-10-05T04:00:00Z Before "The Hunger Games" and "Divergent" series zoomed off bookshelves and onto movie screens, where they became blockbuster franchises, there was a quieter dystopian novel that entranced millions of young readers: 1993's "The Giver." On road to film Lois Lowry's 'The Giver,' Jeff Bridges gave his all 2014-08-14T04:00:00Z Two of the top 10 are dystopian novels, nightmarish visions of governments determined to distort and destroy independent thought. Analysis | New York Public Library’s most checked-out books say a lot about what we read and why 2020-01-11T05:00:00Z Ms. Okpokwasili cites as other influences “dystopian folklore, speculative fiction, Igbo cosmology and the futures and commodities markets.” Dance This Season: Tap, Ballet and the Inexplicable 2016-09-16T04:00:00Z It’s a dystopian world, just like it almost always is when science fiction writers flash forward. Review: ‘Incorporated’ Travels to a Dystopian 2074 2016-11-29T05:00:00Z “The Lobster,” which debuted here at the Cannes Film Festival to critical acclaim, takes Mr. Lanthimos’s darkly comic dystopian vision to a deeper level and a much wider audience than ever before. At Cannes, a Greek Filmmaker Explains Move to English-Language Film 2015-05-18T04:00:00Z In “Organic Matters,” another artist addresses dystopian futures. Two explorations of nature and centuries-old gender stereotypes 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z Jacobson may be writing in the great tradition of dystopian literature, but he takes a clever swipe at “what these writers gloomily and even hysterically prophesied.” Book review: ‘J,’ by Howard Jacobson, is a chilling tale of our anti-Semitic future You may be thinking of “The Hunger Games” or any of the countless other dystopian works of fiction that involve monitored competitions. Theater, Reality TV and What Is Stranger Than Fiction 2021-06-20T04:00:00Z Among the Silicon Valley set, it’s become a meme to post screenshots of all the faces logging in for a video conference, like a dystopian version of “The Brady Bunch.” Hard times, soft pants: Life with the housebound white-collar workforce 2020-03-13T04:00:00Z Instead of taking responsibility for a debate that allows both sides to air their views, it is framed as a sort of dystopian game show. Nick and Margaret: Too Many Immigrants? review – it feels reductive and cheap 2014-07-16T04:00:00Z With an audience 59 percent female and half under the age of 25, "Divergent" lured young moviegoers with dystopian drama and an upcoming star. Teen sci-fi franchise 'Divergent' debuts with $56M 2014-03-24T13:05:10Z There is no better band to turn to than Radiohead if you fear a dystopian future. A post-election soundtrack to help you grieve or celebrate 2016-11-10T05:00:00Z In “quarks” the vocalist Charmaine Lee and Mr. Pluta created a dystopian world of thuds, gurgles and sandy abrasions through extended vocal techniques that were creatively miked, processed and amplified at often brutal volume. Review: Conjuring the Splintered Self With Electronics and Voice 2019-03-29T04:00:00Z Ephron made witty, sophisticated romantic comedies for the movies, but that genre has noticeably faded from the big screen in an era when the box office favors animated blockbusters, dystopian parables and comic book heroes. ‘Selfie,’ ‘A to Z’ and Others Refresh the Romantic Comedy 2014-09-29T04:00:00Z Had Rupert Murdoch, the villain from every dystopian novel ever, succeeded in his bid for Time Warner, CNN would be up for sale. Must-see morning clip: Jon Stewart launches #NewCNNShows 2014-07-30T04:00:00Z As a native of Cleveland, I’ve been fascinated, on the one hand, by the city’s desperate, dystopian “Mad Max” hellscape of shuttered warehouses, gruesome rendering plants and rusted iron ore unloaders. Cleveland’s heart of darkness 2013-05-08T16:30:00Z It’s a wild and crazy book, a dystopian chronicle of interactions among the gods and humans set in a world that, long past any Golden Age, is settling into a condition of moral chaos. Can We Ever Look at Titian’s Paintings the Same Way Again? 2021-08-12T04:00:00Z In contrast to the dystopian futures its tribe members often consume and create, THU aims to put this community on a gently utopian path. Pixel wizards: meet the CGI creatives building cinema's brave new worlds 2017-09-25T04:00:00Z Two fictional films that have my attention are "The Platform," a bleak dystopian flick, and the more upbeat family drama "Uncorked." What's new on Netflix in March, from "Ozark" to Mark Wahlberg's new action flick 2020-03-01T05:00:00Z “Then I read ‘Hunger Games,’ ” the best-selling dystopian novel, “and it also made me cry.” E-Readers Catch Younger Eyes, and Find Room in the Backpack 2011-02-05T02:27:13Z Wes Anderson fable set in a dystopian Japan many years in the future, when all dogs have been banished to an offshore island. Best films of 2018 so far 2018-06-19T04:00:00Z Abrams dystopian drama except that it’s adapted from the ’70 movie about theme park robots gone wild, and that the teaser promos are creepy as hell. 15 Shows We're Curious to Watch in 2015 2014-12-29T05:00:00Z An assistant professor at The New School, Kleeman teaches graduate classes on the dystopian genre. Alexandra Kleeman Finds Reality All Too Surreal 2021-07-30T04:00:00Z As the title indicates, "The Hunger Games: Mockingjay — Part 1" is an opening salvo, the first half of the two-part finale to the blockbuster franchise based on Suzanne Collins' dystopian book series. 'Mockingjay -- Part 1' is stretched thin but holds, reviews say 2014-11-21T05:00:00Z A completely imagined world, a dystopian world, did not attract me at all, I wanted to stay with real life. If you like books like these: historical fiction for teens 2013-05-14T08:00:00Z While a movie like "They Live" was about subtle imperialism and human beings were the evil overlords in "District 9" and "Starship Troopers," "Captive State" just makes the alien invaders into generic dystopian, two-dimensional baddies. "Captive State" is boring 2019-03-15T04:00:00Z For a dystopian novelist, Jacobson is coy about what disrupted modern civilization, and he has little interest in describing the intricacies of the current state. Book review: ‘J,’ by Howard Jacobson, is a chilling tale of our anti-Semitic future For a show that splits the difference, try IFC’s “Brockmire”: a sharp-tongued baseball comedy that, in its fourth and final season, takes an odd and oddly prescient dystopian turn. Review: ‘Brockmire’ Is the Dystopian Baseball Comedy We Need 2020-03-18T04:00:00Z There is a powerful description of this in Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale, her novel set in a dystopian future plagued by infertility. Why doesn't fiction deliver birth scenes? 2012-08-05T18:00:01Z On Monday, it jacks up the stakes with “The Expanse,” a 10-episode dystopian drama that it’s calling “the most ambitious series in Syfy history.” Review: ‘The Expanse,’ a Syfy Space Opera Laced With Parables 2015-12-11T05:00:00Z But two other entries pack a more complete punch: the dystopian satire “Please Hold” and “The Dress,” about a woman with dwarfism considering a potential romance. Oscars 2022 Predictions: Who Will Win Best Picture, Actor and Actress? 2022-03-24T04:00:00Z Nearly 200 independent movie theaters across the United States on Tuesday will screen the film of George Orwell's "1984" novel about a dystopian future in what organizers say is a stand against U.S. Orwell's '1984' back in theaters in stand against 'alternative facts' 2017-04-04T04:00:00Z Despite what would seem a deeply discouraging forecast, Mr. Brooks said that “2030” offered an uplifting message that camaraderie and humanity prevail in dystopian situations. Albert Brooks Laughs His Way Through Dystopia 2011-05-03T12:00:00Z The decision to re-edit the offending scene follows the removal of a sequence in its dystopian drama Bird Box that featured footage from a real-life rail disaster. Netflix cuts controversial suicide scene from 13 Reasons Why 2019-07-16T04:00:00Z Opie’s effort, while less disjointed, partakes of some of this estrangement, situating dystopian reality a little closer to home. Lautner fans, be warned: Catherine Opie's 'The Modernist' will play like a horror movie 2018-01-22T05:00:00Z The turns of phrase that Destiny is using, the chanting, the themes of mother and nature and our dystopian future that we're heading into, are really incredible. How to survive—and thrive—in "The Heartbreak Years" 2023-10-01T04:00:00Z The final installment in The Hunger Games franchise starring Jennifer Lawrence as a girl leading a revolution in a dystopian society is set to premiere in November. 22 Movies Featuring Women We're Excited to See in 2015 2015-01-06T05:00:00Z “We always loved the idea of a dystopian universe, and we start off at what I describe as a ‘factory farm’ – what would be a flat land with farming. Ridley Scott reveals details of opening scene of Blade Runner sequel 2015-11-18T05:00:00Z This week it's Momentum by Saci Lloyd, a gripping dystopian thriller tackling some big issues. Children's fiction prize book club: Momentum 2011-07-15T14:22:22Z If The Hunger Games series were an actual dystopian reality show now available on DVD, Mockingjay 1 would be the Making Of extra. Review: To Shill a Mockingjay - Part 1 2014-11-12T05:00:00Z As an act of manipulation it was masterful if vaguely dystopian, in a Terry Gilliam kind of way. Duckie Brown and Michael Kors Make the Case for American Fashion at New York Men’s Shows 2015-07-15T04:00:00Z “All of the characters of color were restricted to backup roles in the dystopian future scenes: A lengthy fight sequence where all of the meaty storytelling remained in the hands of Magneto and Professor Xavier.” When “X-Men: Apocalypse” fails its heroes of color, it fails the “X-Men” spirit 2016-05-30T04:00:00Z Beeple’s work has a brash, in-your-face appeal, like a political sketch cartoon set in a dystopian video game. Beeple Brings Crypto to Christie’s 2021-02-24T05:00:00Z On the other hand, dystopian gauntlets seem to be the new zombies these days. Smart Watch: The notorious “RBG” comes to CNN and more top TV picks for the week 2018-09-01T04:00:00Z Imagine a dystopian far-future where a faceless megacorp harvests and replicates everything in its path, until every frazzled citizen drowns in content. Cowboy Bebop remake: please Netflix, keep the anime classic wild and raw 2018-11-30T05:00:00Z In both essays, Lee reckons with the decline of one’s health as a micro-apocalypse — life is separated into a “before” and an “after” — and the almost dystopian alienation that emerges between sufferers and the well. In This Novel, a Man’s Face Becomes Distorted. His Sanity Follows. 2019-04-10T04:00:00Z My first reaction was not dismay at the dystopian policy to which she refers. Kale is a four-letter word – but why? 2014-07-08T04:00:00Z Still, it is all put together with a lively theatrical eye, a disregard for Kubrick iconography and, in the hospital scenes, a suitably dystopian chill. A Clockwork Orange ? review 2010-10-20T20:44:00Z Or as Mr. Cowen puts it: “The dystopian future is our present.” The Best New Social Thriller Is a Podcast 2018-09-13T04:00:00Z We are told in the preface not to expect a dystopian narrative of family abuse and trauma. When Your Family Becomes a Noah’s Ark-Style Experiment With Race 2023-03-28T04:00:00Z As we learn in the new documentary “A Gray State,” Mr. Crowley’s movie was supposed to be a dystopian thriller designed as a warning against authoritarian control. Review: ‘A Gray State,’ Behind a Filmmaker’s Madness 2017-11-02T04:00:00Z At best you’ll get a dystopian reality show such as The Running Man or The Truman Show. The Incredibles 2’s Screenslaver: the most controversial film villain ever? 2018-07-02T04:00:00Z The play lasts only 47 minutes, but it is epic in every way, and in a good production this glimpse into a dystopian future will chill to the marrow. Sherlock Holmes, The History Boys, Race: what to see at the theatre this week 2013-05-18T05:00:15Z The dystopian Mad Max universe, with its visions of a junkyard future comprised of the flotsam and jetsam of human civilisation, is full of recycled commodities: what the director calls “found objects repurposed”. Mad Max: Fury Road in black and white: a fascinating re-evaluation of a groundbreaking film | Luke Buckmaster 2016-12-05T05:00:00Z Unlike a lot of screen heroines, she has never settled into stereotype, which, despite the whole dystopian thing, makes her a lot like the contemporary girls and women watching her. Review: ‘The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 2,’ Katniss’s Final Battle 2015-11-19T05:00:00Z In the ad, a nameless heroine runs through a dystopian setting, where a face projected onto an enormous screen commands a room full of conformists to obey. What reviewers said about the first Mac when it debuted 30 years ago 2014-01-25T18:00:00Z And, well, there are a lot of “Law & Order” scripts, a lot of superhero plots, a lot of dystopian thrillers. TV’s War With the Robots Is Already Here 2023-05-10T04:00:00Z Is there any future vision that is not dystopian? T. Coraghessan Boyle on Man and Machines 2019-02-04T05:00:00Z We’ve seen horrific flashbacks of women losing their jobs, rights and access to their money; we’ve seen glimpses of events and takeovers that led to the larger dystopian vision. Perspective | We survived another grueling season of ‘The Handmaid’s Tale.’ Here are 3 things we need from Season 3. 2018-07-11T04:00:00Z Fittingly, Cannes provided the inspiration for the director's dystopian vision of the entertainment business, which stars actress Robin Wright as, well, actress Robin Wright - a 40something performer whose career is on the slide. Ari Folman animates Robin Wright in 'The Congress' 2013-05-21T12:05:12Z And yet, seen from a different angle, it might be their darkest dystopian production yet. When Is a Comedy Special Also a Corporate Synergy Message? 2020-12-30T05:00:00Z “It is a historical literary creation of political and social importance. It is a brilliant work of dystopian literature – as important as Orwell’s ‘1984’,” Duke says in the video. Anti-Semitism, illustrated: David Duke working on a new “Protocols of the Elders of Zion” 2014-05-24T04:00:00Z "Snowpiercer" is such a strange premise in the realm of all these dystopian visions of how the future is going to be. "It's like being black in America": "Snowpiercer" star Daveed Diggs on the Tailies with no agency 2020-05-24T04:00:00Z Erdrich’s heart isn’t really in her dystopian visions, and this novel’s scenes of chases and escapes are hokey and feel derived from films. Shades of Atwood and Vonnegut in Louise Erdrich’s Dystopian Novel 2017-11-14T05:00:00Z A few years ago, that symbolism tended to be grandiose and fantastical, now it is bleaker and earthier, even dystopian. Design: Furniture Designers Are Shifting Focus 2010-04-11T14:52:00Z “Which is why we perform alone, to experimental music, in dystopian settings, and we never smile.” In Berlin, a Loft That Is Part Gallery and Part Roller Rink 2020-08-19T04:00:00Z Its chills don’t come from the icy winter temperatures in Quebec but from the dystopian story line and its uncomfortable reminder of some of the worst days of the pandemic. Review | Louise Penny’s latest mystery imagines a post-covid world. Things are still pretty complicated. 2021-08-21T04:00:00Z I learned about Pard not from Le Guin’s traditionally published writings, from her dystopian fiction or her essays, but rather from her blog. Michelle Dean loves Ursula K. Le Guin's cat stories. Which is a good start. 2017-12-08T05:00:00Z If the film’s mercenary politicians and racist villains reflect the headlines, its dystopian premise warns of what’s to come if tyranny goes unchecked. Here’s What We Would Nominate for Best Picture 2021-01-28T05:00:00Z In “Census,” a father and son journey across a nameless, dystopian land. A Dying Father, His Son and One Last Road Trip 2018-04-25T04:00:00Z “While these science-fiction films view the consequences of population growth in different, but uniformly dystopian, ways they all share a common thread that is anything but science fiction, it is science fact,” he says. From Infinity War to Okja: why overpopulation is cinema's crisis du jour 2018-05-15T04:00:00Z He pursued it through alternative histories like “The Man in the High Castle,” post-hippie dystopian novels like “Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said” and a meandering, unfinished philosophical-religious opus he called his “exegesis.” Review | ‘Philip K. Dick’s Electric Dreams’ is a companion anthology to the new TV show 2018-01-03T05:00:00Z These guys are visionaries of the techno-future, and it’s sort of utopian but it also has a dystopian tinge to it. George Packer: Don’t CEOs have any shame? 2013-05-26T18:00:00Z This summer, like most, is still heavy on crime procedurals, dystopian sci-fi dramas and a limitless supply of shows about fat guys and their barbecue grills. Summer TV: Post critic Hank Stuever’s guide to what’s on “An upsetting dystopian future has emerged where women no longer have a say,” the description read. Sexy 'maiden costume' yanked from website after backlash from 'Handmaid's Tale' fans 2018-09-21T04:00:00Z With a vibe somewhere between a luxury spa and a futuristic hospital, Glenstone is soothing to some, dystopian to others, and, at every edge, functions like a ready-made stage for Instagram. In an endless news cycle, art at Glenstone both echoes and quiets the chaos 2020-01-29T05:00:00Z The next year he and Mr. Nolan published “Logan’s Run,” a novel about a dystopian society in which young people lead hedonistic lives but everyone is killed after turning 21. George Clayton Johnson, Science Fiction Writer Known for ‘Logan’s Run,’ Dies at 86 2015-12-27T05:00:00Z But the central tale is of Tony and how everything affects him – gangster friends and enemies, mistresses, a family structure not so much dysfunctional as dystopian, and all the threads these lead to. The Wire re-up: season five, episode seven ? The Wire v The Sopranos 2010-03-29T23:15:00Z Season 2 of this dystopian drama comes to a close following last episode’s public execution. What’s on TV Wednesday: The World Cup Semifinals and ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ 2018-07-11T04:00:00Z Harrison Ford returns to play Rick Deckard while the film is led by Ryan Gosling, as a cop who discovers a long buried secret about the dystopian world of Los Angeles in 2049. Blade Runner 2049: Ryan Gosling meets Harrison Ford in action-packed trailer 2017-05-08T04:00:00Z He has argued that “we live in a big science fiction novel we are all writing together” — but he’s not sure if it’s going to be a utopian or dystopian one. A Sci-Fi Writer Returns to Earth: ‘The Real Story Is the One Facing Us’ 2022-05-11T04:00:00Z When Blake lands back on Earth — and smack in the middle of another conflict between warring parties — “The Colony” interrogates who, in this dystopian portrayal of humanity, is really worth saving. ‘The Colony’ Review: Fertile Ground Goes to Waste 2021-08-26T04:00:00Z This makes her a perfect surrogate for the reader turned viewer, who perceives this dystopian world through her eyes and who also imagines him- or herself in Katniss’s place. Arts & Leisure: Katniss Everdeen, a New Type of Woman Warrior 2012-04-04T12:00:00Z It’s a really dystopian look at the American experiment, and I think that’s what we’re all kind of waking up to. Why Thornton Wilder Matters in the Trump Era 2017-02-16T05:00:00Z Today, Netflix released the first teaser trailer and show details about the upcoming fourth season of the satirical, often harrowing dystopian British television show “Black Mirror”. "Black Mirror" is coming back, but do we even need it? 2017-08-25T04:00:00Z They talked about how they like dystopian books and movies. Date Lab: He sensed some immediate chemistry 2020-04-17T04:00:00Z Orwell was an exceptionally prolific book reviewer and columnist, but it was his dystopian novels, “Animal Farm” and “1984,” that cemented his cultural legacy. How ‘Orwellian’ Became an All-Purpose Insult 2021-01-13T05:00:00Z After finding some of the dystopian books he's read to be "a bit glossy," Weitz created "a world with some ugly things happening in it." Chris Weitz talks about his YA novel, 'The Young World' 2014-08-01T04:00:00Z “We’re trying to expand the number of voices in the room,” said the press secretary, who keeps a copy of the dystopian novel “1984” in his new White House office. Newsmax, CBN, Townhall — new faces and a new feel at White House press briefings 2017-02-10T05:00:00Z Much like in the final scenes of the 2006 dystopian film Children of Men, in mother! a pregnant woman must navigate through a chaotic war zone. Explaining the Many References in the Movie 'mother!' 2017-09-15T04:00:00Z Finally, Laura Miller contemplates the boom in dystopian fiction published for younger readers. Sunday Reading: Dystopian Fiction 2019-03-31T04:00:00Z His latest novel, The Hit, is a dystopian thriller set in the future, which imagines a new pill known as Death. Melvin Burgess: a life in writing 2013-04-11T06:00:03Z The Austrian director Nikolaus Geyrhalter presents these and other images as vestiges of human existence in this documentary, conjuring a dystopian age with desolate environmental shots. What’s on TV Friday: ‘Wet Hot American Summer’ and ‘Comrade Detective’ 2017-08-04T04:00:00Z And indeed dozens of other dystopian masterpieces, from Brave New World to The Handmaid's Tale, that SF has provided to warn of technology's darker side. Science fiction's five best guides to the present 2013-07-26T09:59:29Z The piece offers an intimate, human view of a phenomenon that is distinctly dystopian. New York Art Galleries: What to See Right Now 2019-04-03T04:00:00Z Every subsequent novel with a date-title recalls this one, the dystopian classic that announced itself as a prophecy in 1948, but now seems an irrefutable analysis of every totalitarian regime of modern times. John Mullan's 10 of the best: dates in titles 2012-06-01T21:55:10Z Plot matters in Mr. Faber’s dystopian novel, and it wouldn’t do to give much away. ‘The Book of Strange New Things,’ by Michel Faber 2014-10-28T04:00:00Z Though it is set in a dystopian future, much of what occurs in “Mercury Fur” recalls recent and historical accounts of lives in countries ravaged by civil war and genocide. In Philip Ridley’s ‘Mercury Fur,’ It’s the World’s End, and the Party’s Here 2015-08-19T04:00:00Z Also, the first story, “I’ll Swallow Your Dreams,” from Christos Ikonomou’s “Good Will Come From the Sea” — a dystopian collection about Greece’s economic devastation — blew my head off with its tender and awful brutality. Why Maggie Nelson Is Drawn to Certain Autobiographies 2021-08-26T04:00:00Z The Zero Theorem, however, finds him in yet another different guise - a reclusive computer genius living in a dystopian London that is as starved of hope and meaning as his skull is shorn of hair. Waltz: From Nazi Basterd to Zero hero 2014-03-14T06:33:14Z Audience members play villagers in a dystopian future in which the global government, or World Regime, has ended the relationship between humanity and the stars. Spare Times for Children for June 8-14 2012-06-07T22:45:43Z "The Handmaid's Tale" is a story about dystopian life in the dictatorship of Gilead, where women are treated as property of the state. Joseph Fiennes cast in Hulu's take on 'The Handmaid's Tale' 2016-08-23T04:00:00Z A railroad executive and a mysterious figure try to rebuild a collapsing dystopian society in the final installment of a three-part adaptation of Ayn Rand's "Atlas Shrugged." The Fall Movie Preview list of films 2014-09-05T04:00:00Z The river's dystopian expanse allows cinematographers to get creative and infuse the action with swooping aerial shots to accompany the spectacle of an automobile revving up its slanted walls. Clip joint: The Los Angeles river 2011-08-03T17:39:00Z There must be something comforting about dystopian worlds as the success of “The Handmaid’s Tale,” based on Margaret Atwood’s book of the same name, testifies. Memorial Day 2017: What to read, watch this holiday weekend 2017-05-25T04:00:00Z Maggot Moonby Sally Gardner Maggot Moon is an unusual teen tale of a 15-year-old dyslexic boy living in a violent, dystopian 1950s England. Sally Gardner's Maggot Moon wins the Carnegie medal 2013-06-19T12:45:17Z It asks, Which is more outlandish and dystopian: an America in which the Tulsa atrocity is being paid for and fought over nearly a century later? Review: ‘Watchmen’ Is an Audacious Rorschach Test 2019-10-17T04:00:00Z He’s already got another gig lined up: “The Lobster,” a dystopian love story co-starring Rachel Weisz, which he’ll begin filming in Ireland next month. Ex-bad boy Colin Farrell turns romantic in ‘Winter’s Tale’ 2014-02-14T21:57:23Z As pop, though, it’s seriously peculiar, with dystopian lyrics and dissonant interludes from sources like a daxophone, a bowed electronic instrument invented by Hans Reichel. The Playlist: Willie Nelson Is Still Standing, and 10 More New Songs 2018-04-27T04:00:00Z At their best, they conjure moods that language can’t label — the interstitial half-remembered transmissions of an acid trip, the deja vu when the bloodshed of the past interferes with the dystopian frequencies of the present. The Doors defined California cool in the ’60s. How does their legacy stack up 50 years later? 2017-10-05T04:00:00Z The recent proliferation of feminist dystopian works builds on that body of literature, using the lens of science fiction to project current concerns onto the future, while also reflecting on the past. How Feminist Dystopian Fiction Is Channeling Women’s Anger and Anxiety 2018-10-08T04:00:00Z “For me, they are from the future, kind of a dystopian world where they are surviving by themselves,” Simonsson muses as we tour his studio, part of the former plough factory. 'We're surrounded by people making things': Finland's artists-only village 2018-08-25T04:00:00Z The storyline of the sequel is a closely guarded secret, but will certainly be set several decades after the Academy Award-nominated original, which took place in a dystopian 2019 Los Angeles. Harrison Ford Offered Chance to Reprise Blade Runner Role 2014-05-16T04:00:00Z Ward's pessimism turns what most climate scientists view as a worst-case but all-too-plausible scientific scenario into a dystopian vision — including a humanity-threatening mass extinction by hydrogen sulfide three millenniums from now. 'The Flooded Earth': Peter Ward's vision of a world awash in the consequences of climate change 2010-06-10T20:50:00Z Although this body of work isn’t included in the survey at SculptureCenter, it’s hinted at in a gorgeously dystopian sequence of pieces made over the last decade and installed in the cryptlike basement galleries. From Pedestal to Petri Dish, Liz Larner Makes Sculptures for a New Era 2022-01-26T05:00:00Z A radically dystopian future seems like the best we deserve these days, and it was impressive to see a summer blockbuster offer such harsh medicine. Review: In ‘Downsizing,’ Matt Damon Sweats the Small Stuff 2017-12-21T05:00:00Z Compared to many of today’s crowd-pleasing cataclysms, popular on both page and screen, these classic dystopian stories chill as well as thrill. Classic dystopian novels forecast a bleak future — soon 2014-03-28T20:10:55Z After their dystopian forecasts, the media was confused by the normality of it all. Seven ways IVF changed the world – from Louise Brown to stem-cell research 2018-07-08T04:00:00Z Cuba and Venezuela are prime examples of dystopian societies that resulted from Utopian dreams. In Politics if Not Art, Realism Trumps Magic for Mario Vargas Llosa 2018-03-13T04:00:00Z A dystopian novel about a private, for-profit prison system in which inmates compete for their freedom in death matches that are broadcast live. Here Are the Finalists for the 2023 National Book Awards 2023-10-03T04:00:00Z Puig adds, "The concept is undeniably compelling, but portions of this dystopian action thriller begin to feel like a video game." 'Chappie': Artificial intelligence tale lacks brainpower, reviews say 2015-03-06T05:00:00Z Luiselli’s significant set of references also includes the David Bowie song “Space Oddity,” Cormac McCarthy’s “The Road” and “Lord of the Flies,” William Golding’s dystopian classic about children running wild in the absence of adults. Valeria Luiselli Traces the Youngest Casualties of the Border Crisis 2019-03-06T05:00:00Z The end result was “The Delivery Man,” a dystopian love story set in Las Vegas published in 2008 that sold 50,000 copies and landed a movie deal. Writer Joe McGinniss Jr. follows in his famous father’s footsteps, with a novel twist 2016-08-02T04:00:00Z “A tyrant’s mountain lair in a dystopian steampunk future,” he said. The Surreal Achievements of the 2016 Oscars 2016-02-29T05:00:00Z To see those words melted down into a speech promoting Donald Trump only enhanced the sense that we are living in a dystopian novel. The D.N.C. on TV: Don’t Go, Michelle! 2016-07-26T04:00:00Z The first chapter, "The Matrix," takes place in a dystopian future in which humanity is unknowingly trapped in a simulation, which is a wild theory that is very popular these days. Where can you stream all the "Matrix" movies before watching "The Matrix Resurrections"? 2021-12-21T05:00:00Z It was one big dystopian dance party, and Mr. Albarn had invited everyone. Music Review: A Virtual Band With Plenty of Friends 2010-10-10T06:21:00Z The structure is interesting too, echoing his other dystopian game show novel of the period, The Long Walk. Rereading Stephen King: week 12 – The Running Man 2012-11-22T10:13:57Z But Sorry to Bother You, a fantastical dystopian satire, paints a darker picture of this natural linguistic technique. Sorry to Bother You shows why black Americans code-switch to survive 2018-07-25T04:00:00Z This dystopian combat dance drew heavily on “Hunger Games” imagery, swords, battle and black leather. 'Dancing With the Stars' recap: First perfect 10s; Michael Sam leaves 2015-04-07T04:00:00Z The book, while lacking much of a plot, offers a graphic dystopian vision. Eric Brown's science fiction choice ? reviews 2011-03-05T00:07:12Z “Mad Max,” the reboot of George Miller's dystopian franchise, pulled in an estimated $6.7 million Friday night. Box Office: 'Tomorrowland' battles 'Pitch Perfect 2' at the top 2015-05-23T04:00:00Z In Schmidt’s “imaginary dystopian future,” the major downside seems to be regimentation. In the galleries: A celebration of language from antiquity For literary precedent, we should skip over the dystopian novels of the 20th century, which were predicated on terrifyingly invasive management. Perspective | Turns out the Trump era isn’t ‘1984.’ It’s ‘King Lear.’ 2017-05-28T04:00:00Z Such surveillance is part of the dystopian atmosphere that walls create. Do Walls Change How We Think? 2019-03-28T04:00:00Z “It’s a boy’s adventure wrapped in a detective story tucked inside a nuclear allegory surrounded by a dystopian fable.” ArtsBeat: Critics' Picks Video: 'Akira' 2011-03-28T21:56:05Z A journalist, she is the hero of what becomes a thriller; the book is also a post-postmodern mash-up of fable, satire and dystopian fiction. Review | Most novelists avoid all mentions of Donald Trump. Mark Doten went the other direction. 2019-02-19T05:00:00Z And yet, almost 35 years later, here we are in a dystopian patriarchy. Analysis | The novel that inspired ‘Blade Runner’ didn’t predict our current reality, but these writers did 2019-12-17T05:00:00Z On a certain level, this is a dystopian project; it borders on science fiction. Times Critics’ Top Books of 2017 2017-12-07T05:00:00Z Poet and academic McGuinness was inspired to write his dystopian novel, full of "strong characters" by his years living in Bucharest in the lead up to the Romanian revolution. Authors vie for new fiction prize 2012-05-24T13:21:42Z These are fantasy scenarios, galling and unsettling, but reality TV is beginning to bridge the gap between documentary and dystopian nightmare. Critic’s Notebook: Discovery’s ‘Dude, You’re Screwed’ 2013-12-20T22:30:53Z “Zoo” is expertly made and fits the current fascination with dystopian what-if scenarios, but it’s basic. Review: ‘Zoo’ Is a James Patterson Novel Brought to TV 2015-06-29T04:00:00Z Smith told me he’s hopeful that truth, through good journalism, will prevail, but he’s also able to imagine a bleak dystopian future. Perspective | Will truth win out? Rob Porter’s departure holds a key to effective journalism in the Trump era. 2018-02-11T05:00:00Z Clearly his plan works out, for in the fifth narrative, set in a dystopian future, the protagonist, a clone called Sonmi~451, watches a forbidden film. Guardian book club: Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell 2010-06-04T23:06:00Z This weekend, we’re bringing you pieces about the scary, strange, magnetic appeal of dystopian fiction. Sunday Reading: Dystopian Fiction 2019-03-31T04:00:00Z In this dystopian future, the government is watching, listening and recording everything. ‘Bats of the Republic’ review: Two intertwined and echoing stories 2015-10-06T04:00:00Z We are still looking at dystopian and apocalyptic fantasies, still running from zombies, still watching cities erupt, still fighting over basic human rights. Dystopia, Apocalypse, Culture War: 2018 or 1968? 2018-05-17T04:00:00Z It’s an uncanny, dystopian view of Burnham as an instrument in the soulless game of social media. Bo Burnham’s ‘Inside’: A Comedy Special and an Inspired Experiment 2021-06-01T04:00:00Z It may be surprising that a nonfiction book for kids about a venerated, centuries-old document contains some of the doomsaying of a dystopian thriller. Talking to kids about the Constitution and other best books for young readers 2017-12-05T05:00:00Z One of the most high profile examples of dystopian literary fiction in recent years is Cormac McCarthy's 2006 novel The Road, which charts a father and son's journey across a ravaged landscape. Will Shakespeare survive the apocalypse? 2014-10-09T04:00:00Z Mr. Foer’s first novel in 11 years is a divorce novel and a state-of-the-Jewish-soul novel and running below the narrative, like a headline news ticker, is a plausible dystopian nightmare. The Top Books of 2016 2016-12-14T05:00:00Z One imagines a generation of readers getting excuse slips from gym class to read these books and, grateful for the ordeal they’re missing, to slip into a dystopian time warp. Review: The Hunger Games Meets The Lord the Flies in The Maze Runner 2014-09-17T04:00:00Z Their filmography, which commonly explores dystopian visions, includes V for Vendetta, the story of a renegade anarchist in a neofascist England, and last year’s sweeping space opera Jupiter Ascending. 'Matrix' Filmmaker Lilly Wachowski Comes Out As Transgender 2016-03-09T05:00:00Z All of the characters of color were restricted to backup roles in the dystopian future scenes: A lengthy fight sequence where all of the meaty storytelling remained in the hands of Magneto and Professor Xavier. The “X-Men” franchise’s diversity problem is getting worse 2014-05-30T04:00:00Z Being a fan of dystopian novels, this was perfect for me. The Killables by Gemma Malley-review 2013-01-02T09:00:00Z Like Ballard’s other dystopian novels from the early ‘70s, including “Crash” and “Concrete Island” and “The Atrocity Exhibition,” “High-Rise” takes place in a numinous or notional suburban England where technological progress collides with social degeneration. Depravity, class war and the 1 percent: Tom Hiddleston shines in brilliant dystopian fable “High-Rise” 2016-04-27T04:00:00Z Like the dystopian British anthology Black Mirror, Humans is a sci-fi premise smartly reimagined for our own age of tech outsourcing. Review: Humans is a Robot Chiller for the Smartphone Era 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z While some interiors were filmed in Germany, Fassbinder found his dystopian urban landscapes in Paris. Film: A Bold Vision, Still Ahead of Its Time 2010-04-04T03:02:00Z Will there be just a few souls dealing with a dystopian emptiness amid the countless blossoms? Spring is here. Mother Nature doesn’t care about a pandemic. 2020-03-18T04:00:00Z The dystopian classics, however, are not necessarily well suited to our current moment. Deconstruction zone: Doubling down on dystopia, preventing the triumph of Trump’s will 2017-03-14T04:00:00Z Within the cathedral of post-apocalyptic and dystopian literature, there ought to be a small sanctum reserved for books produced out of the author’s personal experience with cataclysmic events. A Science-Fiction Classic Still Smolders 2014-10-22T04:00:00Z It's not entirely clear what their worldview is but it could perhaps be reduced to "dystopian with humour". New band of the day - Young Fathers (No 1,404) 2012-11-27T16:48:09Z Much of the feminist dystopian fiction published over the last few years takes place in the future, in worlds uncomfortably similar to our own. An Adulterer, a Gang Member, a Dystopian Teacher: 3 Novels of American Womanhood 2020-02-14T05:00:00Z The machines haven’t risen, as they have in dystopian tales like “The Terminator” series, but instead have been folded into everyday life. Movie Review: ‘Her,’ Directed by Spike Jonze 2013-12-17T22:54:49Z Similarly to the film, the show uses a dystopian setting to explore issues with class, social standing and social justice. (Not) made in America: 6 Korean shows and their remade U.S. counterparts 2023-05-08T04:00:00Z Like that show, which depicted debt-ridden citizens competing in a series of deadly, Darwinian children’s games for the amusement of wealthy overlords, “Bargain” deals in dystopian extremes. Sex, Thugs and Kidneys: ‘Bargain’ Bids to Be the Next ‘Squid Game’ 2023-10-04T04:00:00Z Mr. O’Hara also asks you to cackle about the vapidity of talk shows, the clichés of dystopian dialogue, bromosexuality, sexism, Trumpism and futurism itself. Review: In ‘Mankind,’ Men Are Men and Women Are Extinct 2018-01-08T05:00:00Z The Tex-Mex badlands, a corner of the world that looked fairly dystopian even before the mutant apocalypse, were a natural setting for this bravura blend of superhero movie, western and noir. From Blade Runner 2049 to It: Week in geek's top science fiction and fantasy films of 2017 2017-12-26T05:00:00Z This leads to the accusation that any contemporary production is “drywall and a dominatrix,” or another Facebook commenter’s guess that the new “Rosenkavalier” will be “set in a dystopian fat farm or something.” Critic’s Notebook: Opera’s Sad Goodbye? How About, ‘Good Riddance’? 2013-12-30T22:21:55Z Through such dystopian window dressing, a love triangle strives to emerge. Review: The Aliens Are Coming! The Aliens Are Coming! 2016-01-21T05:00:00Z This weekend the dystopian horror sequel "The Purge: Anarchy" takes to the streets for another round of lawlessness. 'The Purge: Anarchy': Will horror fans come back for more mayhem? 2014-07-17T04:00:00Z In dystopian future story “Old Man Logan,” America has taken the darkest turn imaginable: Nazi super-soldier the Red Skull, enemy of Captain America since the days of Hitler, has declared himself president. Donald Trump, supervillain? Here are 8 evil comic book presidents who resemble the GOP front-runner 2016-04-03T04:00:00Z Q. In what dystopian movie does a government agency ban all research into climate change? Style Invitational Week 1341: Portmanteautapping E to R 2019-07-18T04:00:00Z Paramount wanted something like The Matrix, while Kusama envisaged a sort of dystopian Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. How today's female directors broke out of 'movie jail' 2019-01-31T05:00:00Z After eight searching, varied songs, it culminates with the operatic, dystopian "Five Little Rooms" and its warmer, anthemic counterpart, "Sleeping Beauty" — the light at the end of Menomena's bipolar tunnel. CD review: Menomena's 'Mines' unearths unpredictable sounds 2010-07-26T22:56:00Z If Apple’s dystopian workplace thriller, “Severance,” wins best drama it would continue an awards show tear for the tech giant. Emmys 2022: What to Expect and How to Watch 2022-09-11T04:00:00Z Salon talked with House about the new novel, climate change refugees, American now and the America of dystopian fiction. "You have to think about hope": Author Silas House on democracy's demise, climate refugees and dogs 2022-09-27T04:00:00Z It’s a complicated union, but perhaps a visionary antidote, both to grief and to the dystopian gloom that artists working in the cyber-futuristic mode often feel obliged to embrace. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2018-04-11T04:00:00Z In season two, episode one of Black Mirror, a young woman recreates her dead boyfriend as an artificial intelligence – what was once the subject of a dystopian 44-minute fantasy is nearing reality. What happens to our online identities when we die? 2019-06-02T04:00:00Z To walk the grassy paths through the “meadow” today is to experience something almost dystopian. The American Horticultural Society faces its uncertain future, uneasily 2020-09-22T04:00:00Z “Welcome II the Terrordome,” which acknowledges a Public Enemy opus in its title, is a ferocious rap opera set in a dystopian Bantustan and using a call for revolution delivered by Malcolm X. ‘Space Is the Place’ Offers Otherworldly Takes on Identity 2015-04-02T04:00:00Z It’s a brilliant, endlessly rich dystopian novel that pairs well with “1984” or “The Handmaid’s Tale,” and it’s also a fascinating exploration of how crises can fuel new religious and ideological movements. If You Could Add One Book to the High School Curriculum, What Would It Be? 2018-08-21T04:00:00Z So the real question, as it tends to be in dystopian science fiction, is whether we will learn, or whether it’s too late for us to recover the value of the concepts that define us. Review: In ‘Before We Vanish,’ the Aliens Have a Lot of Questions 2018-02-01T05:00:00Z Based on Mary Shelley’s eponymous 19th century novel, the opera by U.S. composer Mark Grey is set in a dystopian, post-industrial future, where scientists discover the frozen Creature and bring it back to life. Futuristic 'Frankenstein' opera poses timely questions about human... 2019-03-07T05:00:00Z I didn’t want to write a dystopian novel, and I don’t want to live in one, either. Why I set my Young Adult novel about abortion in the 1990s 2019-09-08T04:00:00Z The top three was rounded off by dystopian action thriller Divergent. Captain America smashes US record 2014-04-07T10:02:40Z In “Friday Black,” the dystopian future Adjei-Brenyah depicts — like all great dystopian fiction — is bleakly futuristic only on its surface. ‘Friday Black’ Paints a Dark Portrait of Race in America 2018-10-23T04:00:00Z On Twitter, colleagues have recommended Ling Ma’s recent novel Severance and the 2011 cult sci-fi thought experiment Perfect Sense, more dystopian accounts of worldwide sickness. Exposure therapy: why we're obsessed with watching virus movies 2020-03-16T04:00:00Z In truth, the enervating hash of dystopian dread, vague religiosity and commercial advertising-style uplift is nothing if not stale. ‘The Giver’ Adapts Lois Lowry’s Novel 2014-08-14T04:00:00Z Fans of dystopian thrillers might do a double-take as her song Heavyweight appeared on the soundtrack of last year's film, Shank. New band of the day ? No 963: RoxXxan 2011-02-08T17:00:15Z In third place was holdover "Mad Max: Fury Road," the Warner Bros. reboot of George Miller's dystopian franchise. Box office: 'Tomorrowland' takes holiday weekend lead over 'Pitch Perfect 2' 2015-05-24T04:00:00Z I now know why Antrim’s first few books were set in dystopian never-never worlds: it was to spare us a look in the mirror. The Best Books of 2014 2014-12-23T05:00:00Z In both, and in the many dystopian novels of today, an apparently bleak world is re-imagined and lit up by children who understand clearly what is worth saving as they step from childhood to adulthood. Book Doctor: Why do teens like dystopian fiction so much? 2013-07-08T17:26:49Z A more dystopian worldview was expressed in Anthony Burgess's A Clockwork Orange, published just before the end of the year. October 1962: the month that modern culture was born 2012-09-29T22:12:23Z The Black Mirror-style commercial, which ran in US cinemas before films including the horror flick It, features an elderly woman being force-fed ice-cream by a robot in some dystopian future. Introducing Halo Top: the 'healthy' ice-cream taking over America 2017-10-20T04:00:00Z Chetwynd is up against film and video artists Luke Fowler and Elizabeth Price, and Paul Noble, who produces detailed drawings of a dystopian imaginary city populated by human excrement. Turner Prize nominees on show in London 2012-10-01T16:33:12Z Orwell based the “Proles” pub in his dystopian novel, “1984,” after the Newman Arms. ‘London literary pub’ tour brings writers and writing home 2019-09-03T04:00:00Z We are simultaneously in Shadow’s mind and the collective unconscious, wandering the vast unknown like lost lambs in a dystopian theater of the absurd. “American Gods” are the ones we deserve: Neil Gaiman and the Starz show cast on the “long con” of religion and the struggle for lost soul of America 2017-04-30T04:00:00Z The disputed wigging happened on the set of an upcoming MGM dystopian horror thriller called The Domestics shot in New Orleans in 2016. 'It's historical sexism' – the fight to end stuntmen doubling for women 2018-02-10T05:00:00Z Situated in a dystopian near future indistinguishable from the present, the film’s setting is less a space for imagination than for cynicism: The more things change, the more they stay the same. ‘Costa Brava, Lebanon’ Review: Paradise Tossed 2022-07-14T04:00:00Z He played as Leonardo, the character he voices, defeating foot soldiers as he marauded through a dystopian New York. Ben Schwartz, the Voice of ‘Sonic the Hedgehog,’ Hits the Arcade 2020-02-14T05:00:00Z Is this a dystopian vision or an all too plausible one? T. Coraghessan Boyle on Man and Machines 2019-02-04T05:00:00Z George Orwell’s dystopian masterpiece, “Nineteen Eighty-four: A Novel” was published 35 years before 1984. Review | In ‘2034: A novel of the Next World War,’ it’s man against machine 2021-03-08T05:00:00Z Though Margaret Atwood is best known for her dystopian novels, her early short stories, including those in “Bluebeard’s Egg,” offer witty, earthbound characters shaped by the natural world. O Canada! What Should I Read? 2018-06-19T04:00:00Z Au knows all about being banned: he is one of the five co-directors of Ten Years, a politically uncompromising dystopian tale which imagines Hong Kong under an ever-more repressive regime. 'No ghosts. No gay love stories. No nudity': tales of film-making in China 2016-09-22T04:00:00Z That’s why so many of this generation are drawn to dystopian fiction.” In debt, out of luck: why Generation K fell in love with The Hunger Games 2015-10-31T04:00:00Z It’s a typical exchange in this dystopian collection, “Terminal Boredom,” the first of the author’s work to appear in English. Where Every Coupling Depends on Lies, and Men Are Aliens 2021-04-20T04:00:00Z “I’ve always wanted to write a dystopian Christmas song,” Phair said in a statement about “Ho Ho Ho,” her contribution to Amazon’s All Is Bright playlist. 5 Depressing Christmas Songs from 2014 That Will Totally Bum You Out 2014-12-23T05:00:00Z Jack London’s novel “The Iron Heel” is usually described as an early example of dystopian fiction. Review: ‘The Iron Heel’ Reworks a Jack London Dystopia 2016-07-31T04:00:00Z Too often, she thinks, pessimistic dystopian fiction ends up reinforcing the status quo, rather than remedying it. Alexandra Kleeman Finds Reality All Too Surreal 2021-07-30T04:00:00Z On Wednesday, that book was also ranking among Amazon’s best sellers, as was Aldus Huxley’s “Brave New World,” another dystopian classic. George Orwell’s ‘1984’ Is Suddenly a Best-Seller 2017-01-25T05:00:00Z That goes doubly for shows presenting some version of the future, be it sunny or desperate, dystopian or simply weird. "Snowpiercer" isn't a disaster train, but it's not a joyride either 2020-05-17T04:00:00Z Then I realized there was a glut of dystopian fiction on the market. Janelle Brown on taboos, motherhood and her novel 'Watch Me Disappear' 2017-07-28T04:00:00Z Our literature, news media and popular culture abound with dystopian portrayals of the terrorism-fuelled misery of our past, present and future. Four Lions shows human face of terrorism 2010-05-09T11:00:00Z Shot over a long weekend in the Poconos, the film introduces several of the characters and their dystopian environment, a kingdom that's been isolated after years of war. ArtsBeat: Come See Our Play. But Watch the Movie First. 2012-08-07T20:49:11Z Enduring dystopian novels look backward and forward at the same time. The Handmaid’s Thriller: In ‘The Testaments,’ There’s a Spy in Gilead 2019-09-03T04:00:00Z Ms. Carlos also used the Moog to conjure the foreboding sound of a dystopian future on the soundtrack to Stanley Kubrick’s 1971 film, “A Clockwork Orange.” Herbert Deutsch, Co-Creator of the Moog Synthesizer, Dies at 90 2022-12-16T05:00:00Z At first this seems like a simple dystopian novel, but on closer reading it is so much more. Maggot Moon by Sally Gardner - review 2013-02-23T15:00:00Z “Naomi” has provided a different way in, as will “DMZ,” a limited series based on the dystopian comic, scheduled to air on HBO Max later this year; DuVernay directed the pilot and executive produced. In ‘Naomi,’ a Black Girl Comes of Age Heroically 2022-01-11T05:00:00Z Tom Hanks went online this week to launch Electric City, his so-far pulpy and enigmatic dystopian animation series. Jerry Seinfeld’s New Web Series: Java, Jalopies and Jokes 2012-07-20T13:52:44Z This is the warning that pulses through many dystopian fictions and which here finds another beat. Movie Review: Johnny Depp Stars in ‘Transcendence’ 2014-04-17T21:59:53Z Stanley Kubrick’s “2001: A Space Odyssey,” a dystopian meditation on time, space travel and a willful computer ruled the box office in 1968. The hard-charging space program: Breakthroughs, breakups and breakneck 2019-06-18T04:00:00Z For enthusiasts of “The Hunger Games,” there will be a trivia quiz on the intricate details of Katniss Everdeen’s dystopian world. BookExpo Keeps It Breezy 2014-05-27T04:00:00Z A perfectly off-kilter and dystopian roundup of beautiful rogues and misfortunates, it successfully characterizes our own unsettled time, inside the bubble of an art fair. The Armory Show: Playing It Safe During an Unsettled Time 2020-03-05T05:00:00Z This dystopian vision rests on many questionable assumptions, of course. Review: ‘Homo Deus’ Foresees a Godlike Future. (Ignore the Techno-Overlords.) 2017-02-15T05:00:00Z Like most dystopian science fiction, “Snowpiercer” has a lot of explaining to do. In ‘Snowpiercer,’ the Train Trip to End All Train Trips 2014-06-26T04:00:00Z We as a country have become so narrow and dystopian. Comics and sci-fi powerhouse J. Michael Straczynski has an incredible origin story of his own 2019-07-25T04:00:00Z But watching as a Noob, you have the advantage of seeing Gotham night as Batman Jr. but as what it mostly is: less a superhero and -villain saga than a surprisingly fresh, dystopian cop show. Review: Gotham: No Batman? No Bat-Problem! 2014-09-18T04:00:00Z That was the dystopian side of him, but the rest of him was full of optimism. Bradbury 'a bright burning spark' 2012-06-06T17:44:08Z In many ways, “Hunted,” which combines digital-age paranoia with law-and-order patriotism by means of a dystopian game show, is the ideal reality show for the Trump era. Who Dreams of Hunting People? 2017-02-15T05:00:00Z The two-hour pilot on Monday night begins in a dystopian future, 38 years from now, when the atmosphere has turned poisonous, and young children have never seen white clouds or the moon. Television Review: ?Terra Nova? on Fox Has Spielberg Touch ? Review 2011-09-25T19:38:19Z The other finalists are film and video artists Luke Fowler and Elizabeth Price, and Paul Noble, who produces minutely detailed drawings of a dystopian imaginary city named Nobson Newtown populated by human excrement. Pop-performance artist up for UK's Turner Prize 2012-05-01T17:31:04Z Photograph: Rex Features The NSA Prism surveillance scandal has been good news for George Orwell, and in particular for his dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four, which was originally published in 1949. George Orwell back in fashion as Prism stokes paranoia about Big Brother 2013-06-11T17:08:01Z They vent rage and dystopian expectations, but they also seek pleasure and redemption. Algiers Blasts Songs of Damage and Redemption on ‘Shook’ 2023-02-23T05:00:00Z The studio has just seen the latest instalment in its follow-up dystopian saga, The Divergent Series: Allegiant, fail at the domestic box office with a return of just $29m in its opening weekend. Not the future after all: the slow demise of young adult dystopian sci-fi films 2016-03-25T04:00:00Z Because of the timing of its previous season, “Game of Thrones” was not included in last year’s Emmys, opening the door for Hulu’s dystopian drama. Emmy Nominations 2018: ‘Game of Thrones’ and Netflix Lead the Way 2018-07-12T04:00:00Z And for fans of 2112, their conceptual opus from 1976, Clockwork Angel's narrative about "an individual trying to follow his dreams in a dystopian future" will seem rather familiar – but this isn't a mere reboot. Rush: Clockwork Angels – review 2012-07-05T21:16:01Z Today she’s here to promote her turn in another genre offering, the tough-minded dystopian thriller It Comes at Night. Carmen Ejogo: 'Hollywood wasn’t ready for someone who looked like me' 2017-06-09T04:00:00Z Potential patrons who are nervous about being yanked from their seats into “Albert Joseph’s” dystopian drama needn’t worry. Meet the designer behind Satori’s innovative ‘Albert Joseph’ 2014-05-02T19:11:09Z “Brick Mansions”: Set in a “dystopian Detroit,” this crime drama stars Paul Walker as an undercover cop seeking to bring his father’s killer to justice. April 25-27 | Weekend Preview 2014-04-24T17:07:24Z The enduring dystopian classic is rendered here in Nesti’s Futurist style. Newly Published, from a Haitian Earthquake to MacArthur Park 2021-10-13T04:00:00Z His first English-language film, “The Lobster,” was by turns ghastly and hilarious, a cruel dystopian allegory of discipline and desire. ‘The Favourite’ Review: Scheming for Power in a Kinky Palace Triangle 2018-11-21T05:00:00Z On Tuesday, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson delivered an ornate digression about a dystopian future. At Climate Week NYC, searching for world-saving answers inside a giant carbon footprint 2019-09-26T04:00:00Z For those of you hiding out deep in the woods, it’s set in a dystopian future North America, a continent divided into downtrodden, fearful districts ruled by a decadent, luxurious oligarchy in the Capitol. Memorial Day’s lessons in amnesia 2012-05-24T15:04:00Z But rather than a spiritual meditation on the great beyond, or a dystopian fable, Elfman’s road movie fits the largely conventional mold of stories about people taking stock before ending their lives. ‘Next Exit’ Review: End of the Road 2022-11-03T04:00:00Z In his debut novel, “American War,” Akkad imagined a civil war and its dystopian fallout. 13 New Books Coming in July 2021-06-23T04:00:00Z But, given the political context in which it has aired, the dystopian programme has thrust itself into popular discourse in a way that few series have managed in recent memory. Samira Wiley: ‘Margaret Atwood responded with a tongue emoji’ 2017-07-04T04:00:00Z Huxley’s standing as one of the grandfathers of dystopian Y.A. is already established. ArtsBeat: Aldous Huxley's Brave New Storybook 2011-03-03T21:25:22Z Ishiguro takes a dystopian hypothesis – human clones being bred for their organs – and then declines to put in place any of the sci-fi framework that would allow us to understand how this could be. Twelve of the best new novelists 2011-02-25T13:05:56Z Her latest film, a Netflix production released in cinemas on 21 December, is Bird Box, a dystopian thriller with a controversial depiction of motherhood. Hollywood must drop fixation wih beauty, says Night Manager director 2018-12-08T05:00:00Z In Monáe’s dystopian but somehow ebullient alternate universe, “dirty computers” are misfits and outcasts whose identities are seen as bugs or flaws that need correcting, the way we might think of problematic software. Janelle Monáe brings an eclectic sound and idealism to her ‘Dirty Computer’ tour 2018-06-09T04:00:00Z One of the panel members was Sara Grant, the author of dystopian novel Dark Parties. Amnesty teen takeover: which books make you think differently about the world? 2012-08-22T11:19:21Z Scott's "Blade Runner" is also striking for its stylized apocalyptic and dystopian backdrops and fashion in a world in which only the unfortunate masses — and the corporations whose neon signs are ubiquitous — remain. "Blade Runner" and the lesson Roy Batty’s Replicant rebellion has to teach us 2022-07-16T04:00:00Z Doyle is up against this year's Costa children's book award-winner, Sally Gardner, with Maggot Moon, an unusual teen tale of a 15-year-old dyslexic boy living in a violent, dystopian 1950s England. Roddy Doyle in the Carnegie running with Greyhound of a Girl 2013-03-12T11:54:00Z She lives in a research compound with other, similar children, locked into a prisonlike cell and into a daily routine that is a cruel, dystopian parody of normalcy. Review: ‘The Girl With All the Gifts,’ and an Appetite for Flesh 2017-02-23T05:00:00Z After a wave of dystopian, sci-fi-inflected adaptations of young-adult novels in recent years, the romantic drama "If I Stay" arrives as the second movie this summer based on a more down-to-earth YA book. Chloe Grace Moretz drama 'If I Stay' is lifeless, reviews say 2014-08-21T04:00:00Z That is a radical vision—and like many Utopias, one with potentially dystopian consequences. The case for compassion, not empathy 2017-01-26T05:00:00Z In its dystopian vision of a present calamitously infected by fear, paranoia, self-interest and the denial of science, this movie is certainly of the moment even if it also evokes the past. | Contagion': ?Contagion,? Steven Soderbergh?s Plague Paranoia - Review 2011-09-08T22:00:14Z More dystopian drama from the insurgent simian world. Summer 2017's best movies: from Scarlett Johansson's hen night to Morrissey's teen years 2017-06-15T04:00:00Z How did you conceive your dystopian vision of the future? Director Rian Johnson on Looper’s True Meaning and Who's the Next Joseph Gordon-Levitt 2012-09-28T12:00:34Z Encountering a piece of dystopian fiction, it’s always fascinating to see what an author imagines the human race will be able to do without. Review: Poets Vie for the Golden Ticket in ‘Really Really Gorgeous’ 2020-02-03T05:00:00Z Surveying a landscape of impending ecological catastrophe, it proposes a future that is only mildly dystopian and prescribes laughter rather than apocalyptic despair as, if not exactly a remedy, then at least an acceptable palliative. Review: In ‘Downsizing,’ Matt Damon Sweats the Small Stuff 2017-12-21T05:00:00Z Right now there are many adapted, rebooted or entirely new futuristic science fiction stories that are quite dystopian. "Veep" creator on trading the Oval Office for lawless space in HBO's wacky comedy "Avenue 5" 2020-01-19T05:00:00Z But even then it was more like a daring thought experiment, a “what if we lived in a dystopian comic book?” kind of thing. Leonard Cohen, Hillary Clinton and the future: Where does the Democratic Party go after this crushing defeat? 2016-11-12T05:00:00Z The Greek filmmaker Yorgos Lanthimos is a deadpan dystopian comedian, an inventor of absurd, highly regulated societies that seem to exist in hidden pockets of everyday reality. Review: In ‘The Lobster,’ Colin Farrell Plays a Divorced Man in a Loner-Hating Society 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z In portraying a world engulfed by fear and mistrust, the film was a metaphor for our dystopian times, she said. Hollywood must drop fixation wih beauty, says Night Manager director 2018-12-08T05:00:00Z The stars aligned for Handmaid’s Tale in 2017, its bleak, dystopian premise making for an appropriate victor in a year that saw Donald Trump take office and the #MeToo movement take off. Emmys 2018: our predictions - who will win and who should win 2018-09-14T04:00:00Z The YA dystopian flick will reportedly premiere as a TV movie—with the hopes of spinning it off into a series. The fall of “Divergent”: The final film will bow on TV — here’s why it matters 2016-07-24T04:00:00Z He didn't, thankfully, and lived to write A Clockwork Orange, the dystopian novel on which Stanley Kubrick's cult film was based. 2010-01-07T14:25:00Z But they grew more serious when they discussed the movie's dystopian story, in which teenagers are forced to compete to the death on a government-sponsored reality TV show in a ravaged future America. Jennifer Lawrence: 'Hunger Games' important for 'our generation' 2012-03-16T18:53:53Z Drake Doremus’s futuristic romance reworks the hoariest dystopian premise: a future society where emotions are banned. Venice film festival – plenty of punch to disturb the peace 2015-09-13T04:00:00Z The thing is, whether your show is a sci-fi dystopian drama, a dark revenge comedy or a prestige limited HBO series, it’s actually not difficult to concoct scenes of women in peril. Perspective | ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ used to feel provocative. Now it’s just exhausting. 2021-04-28T04:00:00Z “This is an election in which science fiction writers can look at the events on the ground and say, ‘Hold up, this looks a lot like the opening chapters of a dystopian novel,’” he writes. Books: Dystopia, the election and when debate was an art form 2016-11-05T04:00:00Z Graham asserts he didn't want to create a dystopian vision. Privacy play wants your selfies 2014-04-25T07:48:20Z “The Handmaid’s Tale,” based on Margaret Atwood’s novel, is the latest dystopian TV series to resonate with some of the anxieties of our times. Trevor Noah Has a Theory on Trump and That Aircraft Carrier 2017-04-21T04:00:00Z But where a dystopian play like Caryl Churchill's Far Away used domestic terror to imply a universe on the edge of the abyss, Stephens's triptych offers isolated existential choices. Wastwater - review 2011-04-05T23:30:12Z “Oval” wants to hold a dystopian mirror up to the way we live now, and sometimes its approach resembles that of the artist-consultants: airily grand, conjectural. In Elvia Wilk’s “Oval,” Earth, Capitalism, and the Human Species Sink Toward Doom 2019-05-21T04:00:00Z Rufus Sewell stars as a high-up in a dystopian America where the Nazis won World War II. This season concerns a plan by the Nazis to remove American history from the public consciousness. What’s on TV Friday: ‘Private Life’ and ‘Fresh Off the Boat’ 2018-10-05T04:00:00Z Photograph: Sean Smith for the Guardian The premise of Gillian Cross's dystopian novel for young adults, After Tomorrow, is a little too close for comfort. After Tomorrow by Gillian Cross – review 2013-05-10T15:59:01Z Even readers who acknowledge the brazen evil of the dystopian premise — these televised duels offer prisoners a path to freedom — might find themselves titillated by its depiction, which functions as both satire and straight-up sportswriting. In This Satire, Televised Blood Baths Offer Prisoners a Path to Freedom 2023-04-28T04:00:00Z Surely there is a danger that such brutal scenes reinforce the dystopian tabloid fiction of "broken Britain"? Plan B: 'Strickland Banks may be soul, but it's still real life' 2010-12-16T22:29:00Z When “Vikaspuri” was published in India, many critics referred to it as a “dystopian” story. A Graphic Novelist Captures the Paradoxes of Living in the “New India” 2016-08-13T04:00:00Z Then we’re quickly transported to the smoky, dark environs of dystopian Los Angeles, visuals that were hallmarks of the original film. ‘Blade Runner 2049’ Trailer: The Gorgeous New Spot Has More Questions Than Answers 2017-05-08T04:00:00Z She’s sketched all kinds of utopian and dystopian societies, whether socialist, pastoral or libertarian. More reasons to hate Amazon: Ursula Le Guin is right about their model of books as commodities “written fast, sold cheap, dumped fast” 2015-06-03T04:00:00Z Frassinelli joined in 1968, after impressing his colleagues a series of short dystopian texts that were later published with accompanying designs under the ironic title “Twelve Ideal Cities.” Architects Dreaming of a Future With No Buildings 2021-02-12T05:00:00Z But more often metaverses are a bit dystopian — virtual refuges from a fallen world. Are We in the Metaverse Yet? 2021-07-10T04:00:00Z Jennifer Lawrence now plays the role with a thousand-yard stare so convincing that it's easy to see how the dystopian saga long ago surpassed its literary source material – a rare achievement. Comic-Con trailer paradise for Hollywood's 2014 movie blockbusters 2014-07-29T04:00:00Z The dystopian novel is Book One of the Atlanteans series by the Seattle author. Local Books: Bike rides and car trips — just in time for summer 2012-07-10T19:46:03Z In a world where infertility rules, "The Lottery" may well decide the fate of the human race in this new dystopian drama. TV This Week July 20 - 26: 'The Hunger Games: Catching Fire' 2014-07-18T04:00:00Z Its towering main atrium, punctuated by concrete balconies once used for transfer of wartime supplies from train to ship, looks like a dystopian backdrop from “Brazil” or “Metropolis.” ‘Doomocracy’ Puts the Politics of Fear on Display in Brooklyn 2016-10-06T04:00:00Z His knowledge of the region reveals itself in slightly dystopian scenes of nightlife and the rainbow-colored walls sliding behind Cash as he moves through the world. "Sorry to Bother You" speaks the hidden truths of "white voice" out loud 2018-07-19T04:00:00Z Why tell dystopian stories if not to learn something from them? The Handmaid's Tale is coming to Hulu – with a white man at the helm 2016-04-30T04:00:00Z The United States is stuck in a real-time dystopian nightmare that is all too real. Author Max Brooks on America's poor pandemic response and why Donald Trump is "a homicidal buffoon" 2020-07-06T04:00:00Z The premise of "The Handmaid's Tale," itself, portraying a surveillance state that eliminates reproductive rights as a dystopian fictional world rather than a modern reality, may inadvertently reinforce this gaslighting. Arc of “The Handmaid’s Tale” mirrors struggle for reproductive rights 2021-05-26T04:00:00Z And that strangeness is front and center in the video for “Generation Why,” which Ms. Mering directed as a dystopian travelogue, shot against a backdrop of beachside decay. The Playlist: David Bowie’s Unreleased Songs and a ‘Putin’ Satire 2016-10-21T04:00:00Z When nuclear terror reigned England has a long tradition of dystopian prophecy in literature and cinema. When nuclear terror reigned 2012-05-25T00:00:00Z By turns Dickensian, Marxist and dystopian, it's a movie as deliriously unclassifiable as it is expertly focused in its desire to provoke and entertain. 'White God' gives the child-dog fable a thrilling twist 2015-04-02T04:00:00Z Utopia There are plenty of dystopian stories around in popular culture at the moment. This week's new theatre and dance 2012-05-25T23:05:26Z Even in the 1950s, his fiction was dystopian; he envisaged future cities that became deserted after business hours, while everyone stayed indoors and watched TV. Constructive criticism: the week in architecture 2012-06-08T17:15:49Z Two, because dystopian literature lets us simulate our worst imaginings from the private security of our own homes, the better to avoid them in the real world. Dystopias are fantastic in fiction. But do you really want to live in one? 2016-11-04T04:00:00Z Men and women are gathered outside the structures, squatting or sleeping, some in groups, most alone like extras in a low-budget dystopian movie. A journey through a land of extreme poverty: welcome to America 2017-12-15T05:00:00Z The last season saw the character sober, married, a father and wrestling with life’s meaning and a brain disorder in a dystopian future. Hank Azaria reprises Jim Brockmire character in new podcast 2021-04-07T04:00:00Z Unfortunately, no amount of editing will redeem this dystopian dud. The Necessary Death of Charlie Countryman – first look review 2013-01-23T17:14:22Z Yet they are simultaneously making the same case that many conservatives made, say, in the early 1960s when Stanley Kubrick's dystopian novella "A Clockwork Orange" was first published. Violence in art: The burden of 'truth' 2011-01-14T22:02:00Z The barrier seems more of a forcefield than a physical construction – one that seals the locals in and everyone else out, creating a dystopian, sci-fi scenario. Under the Dome has already got me thinking about busting out 2013-07-10T02:49:26Z Bloody raves, dystopian subway dance parties, futuristic car travel—this one’s going to be hard to beat. Grimes' New Video Is Already Going to Be One of 2016's Best 2016-01-19T05:00:00Z There’s neither glossy escapism nor gritty dystopian metaphor here. A tale of two literary Americas: What a book on inequality accidentally reveals about inequality 2017-09-02T04:00:00Z I recently read the mighty Octavia Butler‘s “Parable of the Sower,” a dystopian road novel of survival published 13 years before Cormac McCarthy’s “The Road.” Picture Books About Kindness, Compassion and Peace in a Turbulent World 2018-01-12T05:00:00Z Translated by Stephen Snyder, the acclaimed Japanese writer’s fifth English release is an elegantly spare dystopian fable narrated by a novelist who hides her editor under the floorboards of her home office. ‘Read Receipts’ On: Two Dystopian Novels Predict the Surveillance State 2019-08-15T04:00:00Z To call a detention center a childcare center is a dystopian misnomer that sends a clear message: The war on immigration will be waged on the bodies and souls of children. A liberal parenting paradox: Meticulously raising our kids while migrant families are torn apart 2018-06-30T04:00:00Z Adapted from the classic dystopian novel by Ray Bradbury, this cautionary tale imagines an entertainment-obsessed future where “firemen” wipe out history by burning books and their digital reproductions. What’s on TV Saturday: ‘The Royal Wedding Live with Cord and Tish!’ and ‘Saturday Night Live’ 2018-05-19T04:00:00Z And what’s a dystopian metropolis without intrusive science and technology, eh? Cleverman season one, episode three recap – upping the sci-fi elements 2016-06-15T04:00:00Z So where might female roles come from if the dystopian genre fails entirely? Not the future after all: the slow demise of young adult dystopian sci-fi films 2016-03-25T04:00:00Z So they branched off to create a social movement of their own: a feminist utopia born of dystopian circumstances. Perspective | What will post-Roe America look like? Let’s look at pre-Roe America. 2022-06-08T04:00:00Z To call something Ballardian is to suggest dystopian landscapes pockmarked by the recurring images in his novels: empty swimming pools, abandoned hotels, deserted runways. Books of The Times: J. G. Ballard’s Memoir, ‘Miracles of Life’ 2013-02-05T21:10:03Z In Okja, it was a down-to-earth country girl who battles a dystopian corporation to save her only friend, a strangely adorable giant mutant pig. Parasite director Bong Joon-ho: 'Korea seems glamorous, but the young are in despair' 2020-01-31T05:00:00Z “We’re doing more optimistic episodes and stories, rather than just dystopian and negative ones,” he said. "Black Mirror" Season 5 still on the way and with more optimistic episodes 2018-12-31T05:00:00Z The Martian” is closer to classically optimistic science fiction than the dystopian works that have crowded the genre of late. ‘The Martian’ Author Andy Weir Brings His Nerd Thriller Into the Mainstream 2015-09-09T04:00:00Z Blade Runner serves as a record of how our dystopian fears have evolved over the past half-century. ‘I’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe’: what Blade Runner 2049’s dystopia tells us about 2017 2017-10-06T04:00:00Z Like so much of this is clearly Orwell's recasting of his own distempered 1948 into a dystopian future. The rest is power: classical music in the age of the dictatorship 2013-05-10T15:01:02Z The intent is to make you feel under constant scrutiny in what the presenters call a “dystopian forest,” but it isn’t particularly terrifying. Perspective | Ai Weiwei succumbs to the tyranny of fun 2017-07-27T04:00:00Z And the dystopian drama “Colony” airs its final episode. What’s on TV Wednesday: ‘Castle Rock’ and ‘Colony’ 2018-07-25T04:00:00Z In dark days, dystopian fiction must work overtime to keep up. A Dystopian Fable About the Unshakable Borders of Class 2022-11-01T04:00:00Z Related: How The Hunger Games staged a revolution Posters for the final part of the dystopian action franchise in some parts of Israel have been redesigned so as to remove the Oscar-winning actor. Jennifer Lawrence removed from Israeli Hunger Games posters 2015-11-20T05:00:00Z Villeneuve’s film is a rare example of the blockbuster with brains, a hugely entertaining romp through the dystopian future that also functions properly as an existential thinkpiece. Has Blade Runner 2049's failure killed off the smart sci-fi blockbuster? 2017-11-14T05:00:00Z Even psychological dramas set in today’s world like “Breaking Bad” or “Sons of Anarchy” have a dystopian edge — civil society has broken down, even if hasn’t been officially declared dead. Television Review: Andre Braugher Commands a Renegade Vessel in ‘Last Resort’ 2012-09-26T22:06:40Z "Of all the dead volcanoes on earth, you just had to wretch and roll through mine," he sings on Duet, a love song set in a dystopian wasteland. Everything Everything: Arc boasts "proper songs" 2013-01-24T08:03:39Z Instead they wield weapons, lead other characters and exist in film genres – such as horror, dystopian science fiction and post-apocalyptic settings – where strong male characters have usually dominated. Bella beats Bond as Twilight movie topples Skyfall from box-office peak 2012-11-24T16:22:26Z Suicide meets Sam Cooke in this politically charged powder keg fit to spark a dystopian uprising. Daily guide to Sasquatch! 2018: Artists to watch beyond the big names 2018-05-17T04:00:00Z The retro-futurist production design is gorgeously awful, the cast is awfully gorgeous, and the dystopian setting is explored with an appropriately Ballardian blend of suavity and aggression. Review: In ‘High-Rise,’ Tom Hiddleston and Class War Hit a Low Point 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z Reproduction is, well, fertile ground for dystopian fiction. REVIEW: The Lottery 2014-07-18T04:00:00Z It is the rarest of books: a genuine thriller, a brilliant distillation of our anxious age, and a work of high literary merit that deserves a place among the classics of dystopian literature. Review | Rumaan Alam’s ‘Leave the World Behind’ is a brilliant, suspenseful examination of race and class 2020-10-05T04:00:00Z A lot of recent books fall into this microgenre: climate-aware, speculative poetry, mixing the fantastical with what you might call dystopian realism. In Defense of Poetic Nonsense, With a Character Who Shares Your Frustration 2020-03-03T05:00:00Z Orwell's dystopian novel, which coined the concept of Big Brother, is being produced by Scott Rudin, whose hits include The Social Network and Iris. Greengrass to direct Orwell's 1984 2014-11-20T05:00:00Z Soft City was created in the 1970s, fuelled by a dystopian vision the artist shared with his friend and mentor, the counter-culture novelist Axel Jensen, whose celebrated science fiction books he illustrated. Artist of the week 202: Hariton Pushwagner 2012-08-09T14:27:00Z But it would also be a pity to see financial issues putting the kibosh on Max’s adventures in the dystopian outback. Mad Max: will courtroom feuding put the brakes on a Fury Road sequel? 2018-04-18T04:00:00Z And they were interested in the future — technologically, philosophically, sometimes in a dystopian way. Made in Detroit, Differing Music Models 2016-05-31T04:00:00Z Ms. Rei’s declamations capture its pride and its lament, while the guitarist Marc Ribot builds a blazing, dystopian billow around her. The Playlist: Kamasi Washington Releases a Blast of ‘Truth’ 2017-04-14T04:00:00Z The dystopian story envisions a futuristic society in which young people live idyllic lives inside an enclosed dome but with one catch — they are executed when they turn, in the movie, 30 years old. George Clayton Johnson, science-fiction author, dies at 86 2015-12-29T05:00:00Z So they might not seem like an obvious choice to bring a dystopian world to life. Rashida Jones and Mike Schur on Their 'Black Mirror' Episode 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z It's an action-packed dystopian tale of a fight to the death. Amnesty teen takeover: Sara Grant's top 10 books that entertain and inspire 2012-08-22T11:19:10Z Here’s what they told us about life in dystopian future Los Angeles. Five things we learned from the Blade Runner 2049 shorts 2017-09-29T04:00:00Z Nearly 50 years before that, George Orwell published his dystopian classic, “Nineteen Eighty-Four,” with its “Ministry of Truth” for falsifying historical events and “double-think,” the simultaneous acceptance of two contradictory ideas as true. Al Franken and Olivia Wilde: Calling a Lie a Lie 2017-06-17T04:00:00Z Their environment is particular: The lighting, by Carolina Ortiz Herrera, renders the setting — it may be the future — dystopian, hazy, purposely impenetrable. Review: Dancers Fighting for Their Place in a Dystopian World 2023-05-05T04:00:00Z But with dystopian landscapes, cinematic crispness and good-versus-evil narratives, game music summons worlds that speak to the fears and ambitions of an age that is at once entranced and intimidated by technology. Video game music comes to the orchestra concert hall 2015-06-12T04:00:00Z American actor Dylan O’Brien, who takes the lead role in the teen-oriented dystopian saga, appeared on the US talk show Live With Kelly & Michael recently to talk about the film. Petition demands Maze Runner cast apologise for 'thefts' from Native American burial site 2015-10-06T04:00:00Z Patrick Ness's The Knife of Never Letting Go may not leap to mind alongside teenage knife crime, despite the title; the setting isn't an inner-city estate but a distant planet in a dystopian future. YA fiction's knife crime lessons 2011-02-11T11:33:45Z “I don’t want to die,” he says, voicing the fear of extinction behind all dystopian fiction. Movie Review: ‘Elysium’ Sends Matt Damon Into a Dystopian Future 2013-08-08T17:18:18Z It is part thriller, part Ealing comedy and part dystopian science fiction. The Boulting brothers: holy fools 2013-07-26T13:00:19Z Inspired both by domestic politics and by American and European New Wave cinema, directors created epic dramas that portrayed apocalyptic government conspiracies and dystopian cyber-police states. The Most Popular Anime of All Time Comes to America 2017-04-07T04:00:00Z I suspect these writers sense – as I do – that we are living in the same dystopian present. Why Gil Scott-Heron’s "Whitey on the Moon" still feels relevant today 2021-08-02T04:00:00Z Noting that he has starred in several dystopian movies, including the ill-starred “The Dark Tower,” I wonder if he thinks America is headed toward a racial dystopia under the stewardship of Donald Trump. Able Was I Ere I Saw Elba! Actor Opines on Sex, Race, Bond 2017-10-04T04:00:00Z "Animal Farm" was followed three years later by an even bigger success: Orwell's dystopian novel "Nineteen Eighty-Four." Orwell’s ideas remain relevant 75 years after "Animal Farm" was published 2021-08-28T04:00:00Z But if Trump’s inaugural weekend felt like a dystopian launch party, it never sounded like one. The incoherent music of Trumpism 2017-01-23T05:00:00Z The music developed further the chopped acceleration Bowie had previewed on Diamond Dogs and it continued the dystopian preoccupations of that album. When Bowie met Burroughs 2013-03-09T09:01:00Z Ms. Egan’s vision is mostly dystopian, but what makes it most memorable is the eccentricity. Books of The Times: Jennifer Egan?s ?Visit From the Goon Squad? 2010-06-21T00:10:00Z This time there's a possible clinical dystopian sci-fi angle, hinted at by the Brave New Ventures website and stationery, but then how does this picture clue fit in? This week's new film events 2012-05-25T23:05:15Z Rue was a black character in the dystopian novel it was based on, but fans seemed not to realize it and complained loudly about the casting. I Saw Myself in ‘A Wrinkle in Time.’ But I Had to Work Hard. 2018-03-09T05:00:00Z Its premise has taken a thousand and one shapes over the years by way of sitcoms, Lifetime women-in-peril flicks or dystopian trifles. Dark comedy "Made for Love" is HBO Max's "Black Mirror"-lite tale of bad romance turned sociopathic 2021-04-01T04:00:00Z In the world of "Docile," created by KM Sparza, a dystopian America has been reduced to essentially two classes — trillionaires and those absolutely crushed by debt. March to the shelves for these new books: Recommended reading for spring break and beyond 2020-03-07T05:00:00Z When you think of stories that explore acts of survival, Odyssean journeys, harsh, wild winters, and dystopian landscapes probably come to mind. New page-turners heat up our summer reading: "Blacktop Wasteland," "The Only Good Indians" and more 2020-07-08T04:00:00Z SC: Well, I just think the dystopian stories are striking a nerve with people right now, and the Hunger Games contributed somewhat to that, but that can’t be the whole explanation for it. “Come for the Love Story, Stay for the War”: A Conversation with Suzanne Collins and Francis Lawrence 2013-11-22T13:00:05Z Ford has reprised his Solo in this year's "Star Wars: Episode VII," and also has just signed on to keep on with his dystopian swashbuckler Rick Deckard in a "Blade Runner" sequel. Harrison Ford plane crash stirs subconscious fears 2015-03-06T05:00:00Z By far its most famous post-“Alice” use appears in “The Matrix,” in a context that is unmistakably dystopian. The Rabbit-Hole Rabbit Hole 2015-06-04T04:00:00Z Then things take a turn for the dystopian. New band of the day: Heterotic (No 1,443) 2013-01-31T16:58:09Z The dystopian survival saga escaped from Sunday's 21st annual extravaganza with the most golden popcorn-shaped trophies, including best fight for the film's final three-way battle and best on-screen transformation for Elizabeth Banks' over-the-top futuristic makeover. MTV movie awards 2012: Twilight and Hunger Games fight for supremacy 2012-06-04T13:08:00Z In the film, which opened this weekend, teenagers in a dystopian society are conscripted to fight to the death in an ultra-chic enclave known as the Capitol. Noticed: Noticed: Movie Tie-Ins Extend to Beauty Products 2012-03-23T17:26:11Z Before I started “Watch Me Disappear,” when I was pregnant with my son, I spent a year working on a dystopian novel. Janelle Brown on taboos, motherhood and her novel 'Watch Me Disappear' 2017-07-28T04:00:00Z The film’s blend of curatorial nostalgia and dystopian prophecy captured a mood of self-conscious melancholy in its moment and set a tone of melancholy self-consciousness that has endured ever since. Review: ‘Blade Runner 2049’ Tries to Honor the Original and to Slip Free of It 2017-10-02T04:00:00Z They enlisted Sam Esmail, the creator of the critically acclaimed dystopian thriller “Mr. Robot,” to direct. In ‘Homecoming,’ a Sound Experiment Becomes Something to See 2018-10-26T04:00:00Z But for those whose taste for dystopian suspense is undiminished, Beukes’s tale of a mother and son making their way across a post-pandemic-ravaged landscape is prescient and taut. Review | In Lauren Beukes’s ‘Afterland,’ a mother and son go on the run in a post-pandemic America 2020-07-23T04:00:00Z Zumas injects some overt political commentary into the storyline of Matti, a teenager who wants to terminate her pregnancy, but mostly the dystopian elements remain tucked in the background. 'Red Clocks' imagines a dystopia that feels eerily close to home 2018-01-12T05:00:00Z Life looks like a dystopian Renaissance fair: doctors gather herbs to treat illness, children tend goats and gather wood for fire. Television Review: ‘Revolution,’ From J. J. Abrams and Eric Kripke, on NBC 2012-09-16T22:07:53Z “You look like an elder statesman in a sci-fi movie about a dystopian future.” Books Of Style: Annabelle Gurwitch’s New Book Asks Questions About Aging 2014-03-21T21:06:42Z A dystopian future in which the Earth is entirely flooded and mankind's bedraggled remnants live on an overcrowded ark, teetering on the edge of civil war. 2011 games preview 2011-01-01T00:05:42Z “The Hunger Games” is set in a dystopian future, but the characters are dressed to the hilt for it. A Futuristic Exercise 2013-12-04T23:14:53Z The author of “Brave New World,” a classic of dystopian literature, was born 123 years ago Wednesday. Remembering 'Brave New World' author Aldous Huxley, born 123 years ago today 2017-07-26T04:00:00Z Back then I could never have envisaged a dystopian future in which strangers could submit written questions to you while you were sitting alone in a room minding your own business. Tim Dowling's guide to long-term love 2014-05-17T04:00:00Z The occasion was the long-awaited return of “Starmania,” a dystopian rock opera that has turned into a singular French phenomenon since it was first heard in the 1970s. France Cheers for a Musical It Loves but Hasn’t Watched 2022-11-10T05:00:00Z “Part II,” whose faded posters could be seen in dystopian photographs of our hollowed-out real world during the pandemic, preserves that gimmick and continues that story. John Krasinski and the Tense Wait for ‘A Quiet Place Part II’ 2021-05-19T04:00:00Z In an interview with Salon before the concert, West and O’Farrill discussed this dystopian age, in which everything and everybody is for sale, and the deleterious effects it has had on music. Cornel West: “Donald Trump is a horror many of us can’t wrap our minds around” 2016-05-25T04:00:00Z Before he wrote “Lincoln in the Bardo,” Mr. Saunders was best known for his dark and often funny futuristic, dystopian short stories. George Saunders Wins the Man Booker Prize for ‘Lincoln in the Bardo’ 2017-10-17T04:00:00Z Tidbeck excels in drawing small details that send a chill up the spine — and turn this dystopian novel into a fine piece of horror-weird fiction. The best science fiction and fantasy books to read this month 2017-12-06T05:00:00Z The Odyssey committee said that narrator Nick Podehl's "gripping narration of this disquieting work of dystopian fiction is masterful." Corner: Let's hear it for these winning audiobooks 2011-04-13T20:22:06Z Utopian fiction has largely fallen by the wayside these days, trampled by dystopian visions of futures devastated by technology, climate, consumerism, religion, totalitarianism, or all of the above. 'Red Clocks' imagines a dystopia that feels eerily close to home 2018-01-12T05:00:00Z We have got a new set of fears to feed into the dystopian machine now, and Blade Runner 2049 seems to have processed them. ‘I’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe’: what Blade Runner 2049’s dystopia tells us about 2017 2017-10-06T04:00:00Z On the other hand, Ms. Atwood is comforted to see a growing number of people reading, and writing, dystopian fiction — a scenario that would be impossible under a real totalitarian government that banned free expression. How Feminist Dystopian Fiction Is Channeling Women’s Anger and Anxiety 2018-10-08T04:00:00Z There are many kinds of narrative about our relationship with the Earth, not just disaster stories, and it is as possible to imagine optimistic futures as well as dystopian ones. Climate change is coming to a theatre near you ... but should we care? 2011-02-16T17:46:35Z The activist and rapper Boots Riley tackles societal ills in this comic, unpredictable and sometimes unsettling dystopian tale about a young slacker. What’s on TV Saturday: ‘Sorry to Bother You’ and ‘Baskets’ 2018-11-24T05:00:00Z In this genre-blurring dystopian novel, set in the near future, the Georgia Flu becomes airborne the night an actor named Arthur Leander dies during his performance as King Lear. The ten best books of 2014 Though he doesn't shy away from the label "dystopian" — "That describes what it is" — he also doesn't see his body of work as some bleak end-times revelation or futurist prophecy. Sci-fi 'Ex Machina' feels modern, futuristic and classical at once 2015-04-09T04:00:00Z The demonisation of the welfare recipient continues apace; a broad dystopian worldview dominates the future. Britannia Unchained: Global Lessons for Growth and Prosperity – review 2012-09-27T07:00:03Z The series presents a dystopian view of urban decay that makes the Baltimore of “The Wire” look almost like Monte Carlo. Television Review: Killers Who Just Won’t Lighten Up 2013-08-08T22:34:06Z If we continue on our current trajectory, we’re talking a dystopian future that looks a lot like the past: infectious diseases overtaking heart disease as the biggest killer. Your Body Is a Wonderland 2019-10-15T04:00:00Z The sleuths eventually end up traveling to a dystopian London, where they untangle the evil plot that threatens the city. Video Game Review: A Pair of Travelers, Saving London Puzzle by Puzzle 2010-09-19T22:01:00Z Instead of losing relevance and power over time, as so many dystopian sci-fi flicks do, it’s aged exceptionally well. David Bowie, Elvis and “Blade Runner”: A fan theory to end all fan theories 2016-01-13T05:00:00Z Back in 2010, Shooter Jennings dropped “Black Ribbons,” a similarly mutated country album with a dystopian lyric sheet and at least a half-dozen guitar riffs that pushed the perimeters of good taste. In your ear buds, Sturgill Simpson’s new album is a drag. In person, it’s a triumph. 2019-10-08T04:00:00Z You don’t mind your work being labeled dystopian, though. ‘I’m Too Old to Be Scared by Much’: Margaret Atwood on Her ‘Handmaid’s Tale’ Sequel 2019-09-05T04:00:00Z Call it climate fiction, or dystopian, or literary fiction, or an adventure story – I want it to be all of those things. "You have to think about hope": Author Silas House on democracy's demise, climate refugees and dogs 2022-09-27T04:00:00Z As in her second novel, “A Little Life,” Yanagihara evinces a preoccupation with the horrific, and the dystopian future depicted in the final section is horrific indeed. After ‘A Little Life,’ Hanya Yanagihara’s Big New Novel Rewrites History 2022-01-07T05:00:00Z Here are issues – civil rights nuclear disarmament, radical feminism, the dystopian imagination, secularisation – with which we are still grappling. October 1962: the month that modern culture was born 2012-09-29T22:12:23Z Her voice remains arresting and androgynous, while the perspective, often, is dystopian and blatantly ironic: calling down a drone bombing, welcoming constant surveillance and looking forward to boiling oceans and burning forests. The Best Albums of 2016 2016-12-07T05:00:00Z Steven Spielberg’s “Ready Player One” is a dystopian story of a future America in which success in an enormous online virtual-reality game with a pop-culture focus is the source of real-world rewards. “Glass,” Reviewed: M. Night Shyamalan’s Unsatisfying Obsession with Superheroes 2019-01-19T05:00:00Z Whitehead’s alternative American history carries echoes of the real thing: Forced sterilizations and eugenics experiments aren’t just the stuff of dystopian historical fiction. Why Colson Whitehead made the Underground Railroad real: “It’s fanciful and childish, but it also had many possibilities” 2016-08-27T04:00:00Z Samara Golden’s “The Meat Grinder’s Iron Clothes” is a dystopian combination of mirrors and eight half-size miniature interiors — including some upside down — that create endless kaleidoscopic reflections of class conflict. Why the Whitney’s Humanist, Pro-Diversity Biennial Is a Revelation 2017-03-16T04:00:00Z In her latest and even more dystopian novel, Noble Conflict, the reader is forced to switch sides. Children's Laureate Malorie Blackman: 'I'm looking forward to redressing the balance for teenagers' 2013-06-05T12:54:04Z For the past six months, I’ve been shooting in America, and it seems increasingly clear we’re now living in a dystopian reality TV show. 'Trump made me do it': director Nicolas Winding Refn on how the American apocalypse is fuelling 2018-07-04T04:00:00Z You find yourself falling into its strange dystopian world without even realizing it. Perspective | Let’s talk about wonderful Indian science-fiction and fantasy novels 2021-03-22T04:00:00Z But the dangers of the current dystopian moment don’t lie in the centralizing of control. Deconstruction zone: Doubling down on dystopia, preventing the triumph of Trump’s will 2017-03-14T04:00:00Z The production was adapted by Michael Gene Sullivan from Orwell's 1948 dystopian novel about a totalitarian society where surveillance is pervasive, language is a weapon of suppression and TVs are used to spy on people. US actor Tim Robbins: I've gotten rid of my TV 2012-04-02T21:38:07Z My mother was firmly against this, insisting that I was much too young to see such a bleak dystopian satire. "Soylent Green" scarred me with its disgusting twist ending – but scientists love its prescience 2023-04-22T04:00:00Z He and the Weinstein Company used Lowry’s advice to keep The Giver from becoming a trendy movie about a dystopian society, full of sex and violence. This is the screenwriting secret to adapting "The Fault in Our Stars" 2014-06-03T04:00:00Z This dystopian debut, centered on a tech company that offers to wipe unwanted memories from its customers’ minds, follows four characters who grapple with the temptations and consequences of erasing the unforgettable. Newly Published, From Putin’s Russia to Pinball 2022-02-25T05:00:00Z This is a dystopian vision of life after The Flood, made specifically for listening on canoe boats on the Thames, but equally enjoyable in a grisly, slightly creepy way, wherever you listen. Radio review: Hackney Podcast 2011-07-26T19:29:01Z Have you heard about this dystopian South Korean drama yet? Lee Jung-jae Thinks ‘Squid Game’ Critics Should Watch It Again 2021-10-18T04:00:00Z If the overall feeling of “Everyday Robots” was a desolate one, Mr. Albarn said he liked to operate in a mode that was “dystopian yet hopeful.” Damon Albarn Is Releasing ‘Everyday Robots’ 2014-04-25T19:26:37Z More important, its dystopian allegory responds to a real need. The Petty Laments of Yorgos Lanthimos’s “The Lobster” 2016-05-23T04:00:00Z Strange and squelchy and all kinds of sick, “Mad God” comes at you with nauseating energy, its flood of dystopian images both playful and repulsive. ‘Mad God’ Review: Highway to Hell 2022-06-16T04:00:00Z But if daring to become an activist — the word is taboo in this dystopian Disneyland — is merely a way of salving liberal guilt, how meaningful can it be? Review: Hipsters Double-Check Their Privilege in ‘Cute Activist’ 2018-01-15T05:00:00Z As for the electronics, rather than “haunting” the orchestra players with shreds of music from the past, the apparition here was of a dystopian future in which their jobs were taken over by technology. National Symphony Orchestra brings a mélange to the Kennedy Center 2017-10-12T04:00:00Z We’ve seen so many books about the fall of our civilization, dystopian novels that focus on the ramifications for small and large communities alike. The Amish survive the apocalypse in 'When the English Fall' 2017-07-28T04:00:00Z But turning it into the material of dystopian fiction—where those who can’t find a mate are sequestered, hunted, then turned into animals? Cannes: With 'The Lobster,' a director keeps swimming in rebel waters 2015-05-17T04:00:00Z And about Alexander Payne’s “Downsizing,” a genial, barbed parable of consumerism, environmental crisis and social inequality disguised as a dystopian farce. Best Pictures, Maybe, but Telluride Is Not About Oscars 2017-09-04T04:00:00Z Woodley was previously seen as George Clooney's daughter in The Descendants and starred last year in the dystopian fantasy Divergent, in which Teller also appeared. O'Connell up for rising star Bafta 2015-01-07T05:00:00Z “The Handmaid’s Tale” is based on Margaret Atwood’s classic feminist dystopian novel about “handmaids” who are forced to procreate for high-ranking men and their infertile wives. Perspective | ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ used to feel provocative. Now it’s just exhausting. 2021-04-28T04:00:00Z Far more startlingly effective is “New Order,” a superbly crafted dystopian parable by Michel Franco. Perspective | At a perilous time, the Toronto International Film Festival captured the zeitgeist 2020-09-18T04:00:00Z Yorgos Lanthimos’s English language debut is just that, taking place in a dystopian society where single people must find a mate within 45 days or be transformed into an animal of their choice. And the Oscar might go to: the sure bets and underdogs critics have already seen 2016-06-22T04:00:00Z It’s one of the great dystopian sagas, a masterful portrait of a ruined world that could be born tomorrow. ‘NK3’: A dystopian thriller from Michael Tolkin, author of ‘The Player’ 2017-02-05T05:00:00Z It’s always been possible to argue with and about “The Dark Knight,” to be troubled or thrilled by dystopian, punitive visions of righteous and recreational violence. A Summer Without Superheroes 2020-07-01T04:00:00Z An online clothing company has removed a costume reminiscent of the outfit worn in the dystopian Hulu series “The Handmaid’s Tale” on Friday following social media backlash. Sexy 'maiden costume' yanked from website after backlash from 'Handmaid's Tale' fans 2018-09-21T04:00:00Z A novel imagines a dystopian near-future where abortion is again illegal, and single women are the subject of discrimination. New in Paperback: ‘An American Family,’ ‘Red Clocks’ 2018-10-12T04:00:00Z But last fall, she started fretting about the end of civilization — specifically, whether publishers were growing tired of the dystopian trope. ‘Station Eleven’ Joins Fall’s Crop of Dystopian Novels 2014-09-05T04:00:00Z On this track, Esmail’s frame is wider, and it accommodates dystopian views of a place called Homecoming, a “transitional support center” for U.S. “Homecoming,” Reviewed: Julia Roberts in the Heavy Weather of a Late-Capitalist Dystopia 2018-11-02T04:00:00Z In his new novel, the ingenious dystopian thriller “NK3,” Tolkin is back with a Los Angeles populated by mindless creatures who live for sex and drugs. ‘NK3’: A dystopian thriller from Michael Tolkin, author of ‘The Player’ 2017-02-05T05:00:00Z Ms. McCarthy’s work has a dystopian vibe, but the exhibition is equally concerned with positive prospects. New York Art Galleries: What to See Right Now 2019-03-21T04:00:00Z Part 2” looks much like most contemporary dystopian future worlds, one that’s by turns similar enough to ours to be reassuring and different enough to be diverting. Review: ‘The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 2,’ Katniss’s Final Battle 2015-11-19T05:00:00Z This relentlessly harrowing tale about a dystopian future version of America returns after scooping up eight Emmys, including best drama, in its first season. What’s on TV Wednesday: ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ and ‘Archer’ 2018-04-25T04:00:00Z Faught developed a plan to unify personally meaningful connections with Carlisle’s album and the dystopian soap opera “Passions,” DVDs of which now rest in pockets attached to the left side of the piece. Tapestry in Seattle cathedral weaves history and mission 2017-03-05T05:00:00Z As a dystopian critique, Town itself might not fully come into focus. A Dystopian Fable About the Unshakable Borders of Class 2022-11-01T04:00:00Z And if that future starts looking more and more like a dystopian vision? A Prescient Sci-Fi ‘Parable’ Gets Set to Music 2018-01-01T05:00:00Z He cited Philip Roth’s distilled, understated prose in “Nemesis” and Cormac McCarthy’s spare dystopian novel, “The Road,” as one model, and Bob Dylan’s warm, lush late style as another possible path. For Kazuo Ishiguro, ‘The Buried Giant’ Is a Departure 2015-02-19T05:00:00Z The original film depicted a dystopian Los Angeles in the year 2019, and despite a poor showing at the box office became a cult classic and today is lauded for its production design. Harrison Ford Will Once Again Be Rick Deckard 2015-02-27T05:00:00Z Set in a dystopian future, the film is said to speak directly to Canada’s history of trying to erase Indigenous culture. Winter Movies 2021: Here’s What’s Coming Soon to Streaming and Theaters 2021-11-04T04:00:00Z If you thought Westworld’s bravura first season brought this latest man-versus-the-machines saga to a satisfying conclusion, remember that was just “one eighth” of the planned dystopian opus. Roman, Samurai or sci-fi: which realms should Westworld season two explore? 2017-10-05T04:00:00Z They were often dark and dystopian: a new psychedelia in all but name. Hidden treasures: Martin Rev – Martin Rev 2013-01-10T17:03:53Z But in between the harsh dose of dystopian reality and nonstop grief, there is poetry, as well as maybe a little catharsis. For Travel or Hibernation: New Audiobooks to Uplift, Soothe or Terrify 2022-01-14T05:00:00Z Leonardo DiCaprio stars as Cobb, a guy with a unique gift in a strange dystopian future where corporate espionage has engendered an unsettling new technology. What to see in summer 2010 2010-05-23T20:30:00Z Together they repeat lines of seeming nonsense — Roxie Perkins’s libretto is full of the ominously capitalized words of dystopian fiction — and follow eerily precise rules as they try to cure the daughter’s illness. Cataclysmic Suffering Sprawls Through the Prototype Festival 2019-01-07T05:00:00Z Add in miniature electronics, flying devices, animal-machine hybrids, and covert military operations, and you have a recipe for dystopian daydreaming. Science-fiction turns real: Genetically engineering animals for war 2013-03-23T19:00:00Z Will Diane and Maia find their way back to our dystopian present? Fighting “The Good Fight” 2017-02-18T05:00:00Z There’s your dystopian cocktail, served chilled: the internet as universal despair enabler, a global climate of societal chaos and a data-harvesting company well positioned to exploit both. A Dystopian Cocktail, Served Chilled With a Twist 2019-07-26T04:00:00Z Fifty years ago this week, Kurt Vonnegut published the dystopian classic “Slaughterhouse-Five.” Sunday Reading: Dystopian Fiction 2019-03-31T04:00:00Z Science fiction as often considered by an audience, filmmakers and other storytellers as well, views our future as being dystopian. "Captive State" director Rupert Wyatt on sci-fi, commercial failure and the age of Trum 2019-04-28T04:00:00Z A scrupulous blogger enquires whether, in an unfamiliar and carefully created dystopian context, "Coal" might imply greater value than "Pearl"? Racism row novel Revealing Eden falls at every hurdle 2012-08-23T09:55:46Z On “The Walking Dead” a group of survivors from a dystopian upheaval are compelled to kill hosts of zombies in every episode. Real Violence Puts Pressure on TV Fiction 2013-01-13T21:09:28Z Set in dystopian London in 2540 AD, the book explores themes of commodification, psychological manipulation, developments in reproductive technology, and the power of knowledge. 35 Books Everyone Should Read in Their Lifetime 2015-07-22T04:00:00Z “Cloud Atlas,” which like its predecessor mixes a vivid realism with dystopian sci-fi and fantasy, tells six stories, all variations on the same plot but stretching from the 19th century to a remote future. David Mitchell Brings His Novelistic High Jinks to the Swinging ’60s 2020-07-10T04:00:00Z "New Order" chronicles how the rich and the poor both try to survive in this new, dystopian world where there is a point system, work permits, and other forms of social control. Michel Franco's dystopian drama "New Order" is an electrifying cattle prod to the nether regions 2020-09-14T04:00:00Z I looked around for validation from bystanders that this dystopian moment was really happening, but everyone walked by seemingly oblivious. A man’s crusade to bring civility to our rage-filled roads (Good luck with that!) 2015-11-11T05:00:00Z Her most recent plays, “Here We Go,” about faith and mortality, and “Escaped Alone,” which envisions a dystopian future, appeared in 2015 and 2016. Prepare to Be Provoked. Caryl Churchill Is Back. 2018-04-25T04:00:00Z A surfeit of dystopian apparel was evident on the men’s wear runways this year. Shop the Apocalypse 2018-12-15T05:00:00Z The MTV Movie Awards occupy a unique niche in the awards show pantheon — one where sci-fi fantasies, teen tearjerkers, serious dramas and dystopian YA blockbusters all vie for movie of the year honors. MTV Movie Awards: Five take-aways from Sunday night's show 2015-04-13T04:00:00Z Mr. Faitakis’s complex compositions evoke Weimar painters like Otto Dix as well as the murals of Diego Rivera, but his dystopian themes — covering social unrest and inequality — seem all too contemporary. Stelios Faitakis: How Greece Inspires His Art 2016-07-06T04:00:00Z The best thing about writing speculative or dystopian fiction, surely, is updating human language, pushing strange new words into a reader’s mind. In a New Dystopian Novel, the Country is AutoAmerica, but Baseball Is Still Its Pastime 2020-01-27T05:00:00Z He also produced and stars in the upcoming short film “Pragma,” which he described as a “dystopian rom-com set in the near future” where there is a “steady decline in sustainable relationships.” Meathead of ‘Ted Lasso’ Wanted to Play Rugby 2021-09-08T04:00:00Z There are colored neon tubes on the ceiling and a certain dystopian air to the place, which used to be a steel-ceilinged check-cashing store. Science Fiction Meets Music (Fanatically) at Jupiter Disco 2016-09-06T04:00:00Z C.M.’s voice, with its withdrawn quality and intimations of ruin, is an odd one to preside over a novel this sprawling and ambitious, this strange and dystopian and vividly imagined. ‘Biography of X’ Rewrites a Life Story and an American Century 2023-03-20T04:00:00Z The story unfolds in a desolate, somewhat dystopian Mediterranean landscape, though the setting is never explicitly identified. Five International Movies to Stream Right Now 2021-06-04T04:00:00Z Whatever is the right answer over legality and risk, there remains something distinctly dystopian about the cheap, barely-there high that comes from huffing on a balloon. Is the growth in nitrous oxide misuse a laughing matter? 2014-08-13T04:00:00Z Jennifer Lawrence stars in Gary Ross's adaptation of “The Hunger Games,” based on Suzanne Collins's dystopian best seller about young people forced to kill one another on television. The ?Hunger Games? Books Become a Movie Franchise 2012-03-09T22:00:00Z The teaser trailer will appear in theaters with Lionsgate's "The Hunger Games: Mockingjay -- Part 1," the first installment of the dystopian series' two-part finale. Lionsgate to handle distribution of wide-release CBS films 2014-11-13T05:00:00Z “The Handmaid’s Tale” is dystopian sci-fi, but it plays like horror, from its constant sense of menace to its ominous score. Review: ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ Season 2 Moves Into a Dark Future 2018-04-23T04:00:00Z Young people living in a dystopian world are forced into some sort of bizarre competition in 2014's "The Maze Runner." TV This Week, July 12-18: 'Masters of Sex' and more 2015-07-10T04:00:00Z Fifty years later, it can sometimes feel as if we are living in the sequel, or at least some kind of weird dystopian reboot. Dystopia, Apocalypse, Culture War: 2018 or 1968? 2018-05-17T04:00:00Z The film takes place in a dystopian version of New York City run by gangs jockeying for control. ArtsBeat: Critics' Picks Video: 'The Warriors' 2011-03-07T23:02:17Z His previous films ranged from lavish historical epics, tragic war stories, and hardboiled crime dramas to dystopian thrillers, cerebral science fiction, and subversive political parodies. Why "The Shining" is a hopeful film 2019-11-06T05:00:00Z A video that explores a dystopian movement farm. Datebook: The art of an influential school, video dystopia, the drawings of a Chicano activist 2016-02-18T05:00:00Z Put baldly like that, it sounds like too much for one book to pack in, too unlikely to be anything other than dystopian science fiction. Saci Lloyd: 'It's not squids in outer space' 2011-07-15T14:20:22Z What can you say about building the world which is dystopian, but also resembles life as we know it. "Dual" director on a world where Karen Gillan duels her own clone for survival: "Karen is a maestro" 2022-04-15T04:00:00Z Douglas Friedman’s kitchen in Marfa, Tex., looks more like a mysterious appliance or a piece of art furniture — perhaps imagined by Terry Gilliam for his dystopian satire, “Brazil” — than a room. Kitchens and Their Evolving Personalities 2017-10-02T04:00:00Z It’s a film about dogs, set in a futuristic dystopian Japan. The most exciting comedy and drama films of 2018 2017-12-27T05:00:00Z The actual potential of A.I. is a hotly debated topic among academics, some of whom think it will never achieve the kind of abilities that spur sci-fi dystopian dreams. The Future According to Grimes 2020-10-28T04:00:00Z Assange ends his book by fantasizing about the imminent dystopian future. Julian Assange’s latest wake-up call 2013-04-30T17:42:00Z And, they suggest, it might suck again soon: Jeff and Sharee wind up in an uncomfortably grounded dystopian future where the planet is too hot for farming. Time Traveling Bong: Doctor Who for the 4/20 generation 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z Video artist Elizabeth Price faces up to dystopian and post-nuclear possibilities in a spirit of amazement. This week's new exhibitions 2012-02-11T00:05:00Z Fox’s YA dystopian thriller is battling a bleak 19 percent average on Rotten Tomatoes, though audiences seem slightly more enthusiastic with a B CinemaScore. Box Office: 'Mission: Impossible - Fallout' Cruises Past... 2018-08-05T04:00:00Z "Utopia" is facing a TV landscape that looks, if not quite dystopian, then certainly challenging. 'Utopia,' an 'experiment,' seen as hope for reviving reality TV world 2014-09-16T04:00:00Z The appeal of these books seems to lie in the fact that by putting so much value on the teenage girl population, the dystopian governments effectively enable them to change that system. ArtsBeat: Teenage Girls in a Dystopian World 2011-05-09T13:00:36Z Whether or not you accept that dystopian premise, its sideways development is astonishingly artful. When Disability Isn’t a Special Need but a Special Skill 2020-01-13T05:00:00Z Excitement about Naomi Alderman’s dystopian novel “The Power” has been arcing across the Atlantic since it won the Baileys Prize for Women’s Fiction earlier this year in England. ‘The Power’ is our era’s ‘Handmaid’s Tale’ 2017-10-10T04:00:00Z There are a lot of dystopian series on television these days. ‘The Leftovers,’ on HBO, a Tale of Mysterious Disappearances 2014-06-26T04:00:00Z Probably 1984 and Brave New World, because of the dystopian aspects. “I Was Destined to Write a Gladiator Game”: A Conversation with Suzanne Collins and Francis Lawrence 2013-11-20T10:45:11Z At once creatively futuristic and hypnotically retro, Beyond the Black Rainbow will absorb viewers in its unique dystopian futurescape. ArtsBeat: Hello, Ozzy: Tribeca Lineup Adds Ozzy Osbourne and Carol Channing Documentaries 2011-03-14T16:00:16Z Cinematic visions of the future have always favored the dystopian over the utopian, preferring to nail-chew over our shared anxieties rather than build upon hopeful fantasy. Moon Nazis and sex in space: what can we learn from movies set in 2018? 2018-01-03T05:00:00Z The "Hunger Games" franchise went from "massive worldwide hit" to "critically acclaimed" with its second installment, "Catching Fire," which goes deeper into the human consequences of the series' dystopian class conflict. 'Mockingjay Part 1' sets up 'Hunger Games' finale nicely 2015-02-28T05:00:00Z It’s a dystopian society that’s sort of blown wide open by a young man who sees a better way to experience life than the way things currently are. Jonah Platt on channeling his inner Beast for a holiday Beauty 2017-12-12T05:00:00Z The gory Spanish-language film arrived on 20 March without fanfare yet its tale of a dystopian future where people must fight over food to survive proved horribly well-timed. What can we learn from Netflix's all-time top 10 movies? 2020-07-20T04:00:00Z Or Why Women Can’t Write,” Johanna Russ, herself an author of dystopian literature, wrote that women writers are often stuck with male myths and male protagonists. The bad mother’s last refuge: Smashing the cult of mommyhood 2015-10-04T04:00:00Z She now feels reassured — if not about the future of the planet, then at least about the shelf life of dystopian fiction. ‘Station Eleven’ Joins Fall’s Crop of Dystopian Novels 2014-09-05T04:00:00Z I’m drawing this rather dystopian view from this year’s report on wine market trends published by Silicon Valley Bank. Perspective | Why the increasing retail availability of wine might not be such a good thing 2019-01-25T05:00:00Z But in El Akkad’s dystopian vision, those differences have led, once again, to secession and internecine warfare. ‘American War’ follows today’s vitriol to a dystopian future 2017-04-03T04:00:00Z The fourth season pushes the action into a lightly dystopian future, with a grayer Brockmire becoming the commissioner of a struggling M.L.B. What’s on TV Wednesday: ‘Little Fires Everywhere’ and ‘Brockmire’ 2020-03-18T04:00:00Z It was almost like their dystopian Statue of Liberty in Miami. Tell Us 5 Things About Your Book: Miami During the Cocaine Boom 2017-11-05T04:00:00Z Many of the songs envision a dystopian future of greed, disenfranchisement and government control. Music Review: Dark but Danceable Visions of a Chilly Technological Future 2011-08-21T22:18:08Z This is a beautiful movie, and its vision of the near future isn’t dystopian — it’s just nice. The 5-Day Oscar Countdown: Her, Great Documentaries & Lana Del Rey 2014-02-28T15:13:44Z A chilly take on dystopian science-fiction, this rare Godard fantasy film was shot in early 1960s Paris, unaltered in any way to look more futuristic. 9 Great Godard Films to Stream Now 2022-09-13T04:00:00Z “You,” with the comic relief offered by satire, isn’t the dystopian nightmare of Netflix hit “Squid Game.” Anatomy of TV hit ‘You’: right book, creators, global reach 2022-01-06T05:00:00Z Some of the most important — and simultaneously most depressing — lines of praise about Margaret Atwood’s influential dystopian novel “The Handmaid’s Tale” center on the speculative narrative's prescience. Maybe Gilead can't hold: Lessons from Margaret Atwood's "Handmaid's Tale" sequel "The Testaments" 2019-09-23T04:00:00Z The 10 debut titles in the running for the £10,000 award range from dystopian to popular psychology, and span the globe from Somalia to Finland, Kashmir to Winston Churchill's family home in Kent. Guardian first book award longlist ranges around the world 2010-08-27T14:32:00Z Set in a clinic where test-tube babies are fed alcohol to determine their social status, Huxley's Lab is a dystopian vision of a culture hell-bent on perfection. Huxley's Lab 2010-04-07T21:30:00Z Livermore, in his fourth consecutive La Scala premiere, set the Shakespearean tragedy in a contemporary city of skyscrapers, with video images projecting a dystopian fate as it falls to Macbeth’s tyranny. Despite pandemic, famed Italian theater opens season 2021-12-07T05:00:00Z Despite appearing in his fair share of dystopian sci-fi, he fears none have helped him prepare for this pandemic. Domhnall Gleeson: ‘As far as I can remember Phoebe Waller-Bridge smelt lovely’ 2020-04-14T04:00:00Z Genre lines are similarly fluid in this movie set in a dystopian world: is it science fiction or is it action? Five Science Fiction Movies to Stream Now 2021-04-16T04:00:00Z The chilling, dystopian anthology series questions what technology pushed to its limit will do to humanity. Here's What You Should Binge-Watch While It's Snowing 2016-01-22T05:00:00Z The general tone, suffice it to say, wasn’t cheerful, relying on descriptions of troubling real-life phenomena that, until recently, seemed the province of dystopian science fiction. “The facts are not enough” 2014-04-09T12:45:00Z I don’t mean just that it does without vampires, magic, futuristic dystopian overlords, or any of the other trendy kid-lit staples of the moment. The Enduring Appeal of “The Pushcart War” 2014-09-17T04:00:00Z I for one welcome our new dystopian nightmare baby. “Yelp for people” — Bad idea or worst idea ever? 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z It sailed past last weekend's winner, "Divergent", which is based on the novel by Veronica Roth about a dystopian world divided into factions. 'Noah' rains down on 'Divergent', 'Muppets' to win U.S. box office 2014-03-30T16:31:27Z In any case, Mr. Simons wasn’t the only designer wrestling with dystopian visions and the once and future dreams of his adopted country. Calvin Klein’s Style Sharknado 2018-09-12T04:00:00Z Let’s think about all those books and movies about future dystopian societies where the rich live in glass bubbles raised above the rest of humanity who are a dirty, teeming, unwell mess. Illness is big business 2013-02-20T20:29:00Z The year is 2019, but “near future” might be a more accurate delineation for this terrifyingly plausible work of dystopian fiction. Robert Schenkkan's 'Building the Wall,' set in Trump's America, imagines the unimaginable 2017-03-20T04:00:00Z What do you do when reality starts looking uncomfortably like your dystopian fiction? ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ Wants to Be More Than TV Medicine 2019-06-05T04:00:00Z Many Japanese are familiar with Ishiguro’s 2005 dystopian novel “Never Let Me Go” through its dramatisation in a local TV series last year, though the fact that Ishiguro wrote the work was less known. 'Who's Kazuo Ishiguro?' Japan asks, but celebrates Nobel author as its own 2017-10-06T04:00:00Z What is past and what is future, what is utopian and what is dystopian in this political theater of the violin and of the mind? With violin in hand, Mark Menzies finds hope for the future in the past 2017-02-05T05:00:00Z In her hands, the possessed become bug-eyed, skeletal zombies as difficult to subdue as teenage heroines in dystopian movie franchises. In ‘Asmodexia,’ Evil Infects Souls Like a Plague 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z The creator of the dystopian TV series Black Mirror has said a career of anticipating the worst meant he was better mentally prepared for the coronavirus pandemic. Expecting the worst helped me prepare for it, says Charlie Brooker 2020-05-04T04:00:00Z A world where no one cooks at home but, instead, orders food made in dark kitchens delivered to their tiny apartments by low-paid gig-economy workers sounds dystopian. Would you live in a house without a kitchen? You might have to 2018-06-24T04:00:00Z Less than a decade after publication, it already feels a bit dated, partly because its dystopian vision seems unduly optimistic and partly because its vision of male geek rebellion has turned stale and sour. Review: In ‘Ready Player One,’ Spielberg Plays the Nostalgia Game 2018-03-28T04:00:00Z On the other, dead mothers, dystopian images of state-regulated bodies, and the terrifying loss of power and control. How 19th-century literature spread the archetype of the "evil abortionist" 2022-07-09T04:00:00Z I admire its confidence and its strangely rosy vision of a dystopian future, how it assumes that the spirit of the 1980s will live on forever, that the cassette is the end of technology. In Vintage TV Ads, a Curious Fountain of Hope (and Cheese) 2020-06-25T04:00:00Z So now, here, offscreen, it is the future, utopian and dystopian in equal parts. Happy “Back to the Future” Day 2015-10-21T04:00:00Z I’m not a ‘dystopian, futuristic master,’ I’m a schnook walking the street. El-P interview: "It's an insane reality we're living in' 2012-07-05T13:48:00Z Why does the dystopian “Dean of Surveillance” at Voth’s academic institution seem so desperate to verify the text’s authenticity? “Confessions of the Fox” Is a Cunning Metafiction of Vulpine Versatility 2018-06-27T04:00:00Z Reviewing it, Adam Sternbergh calls the book a “dystopian cocktail, served chilled: the internet as universal despair enabler, a global climate of societal chaos and a data-harvesting company well positioned to exploit both. … ‘ 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2019-08-01T04:00:00Z And I would say, “Because I don’t want to write a dystopian novel.” Why I set my Young Adult novel about abortion in the 1990s 2019-09-08T04:00:00Z As his company, the Coconut Computer Corporation, grows and churns out more products, Rao’s ambitions widen and the novel takes on a dystopian bent. She Wrote a Dystopian Novel. Now Her Fiction Is Crossing Into Reality. 2022-04-27T04:00:00Z Make Room!,” which was translated to the screen as “Soylent Green” in 1973, he painted a dystopian nightmare of too many people scrambling for too few resources. Harry Harrison, a Prolific Writer of Satiric Science Fiction, Dies at 87 2012-08-18T02:52:27Z Lee’s dystopian novel opens on a wasted landscape where the remnants of civilization survive in stratified compounds walled off from the lawless scrap heap of North America. The top 50 fiction books for 2014 Margaret Atwood did not have any creative control over the latest adaptation of her dystopian novel "The Handmaid's Tale," but she was very clear what she didn't want. Once preposterous, now immediate; Margaret Atwood on 'Handmaid's Tale' 2017-04-17T04:00:00Z Though the book ends on a cautiously hopeful note, it’s pretty dystopian, particularly the section about fake video and audio that’s increasingly hard to distinguish from the real thing. New & Noteworthy 2018-10-02T04:00:00Z Alarming as such dystopian comparisons were, they offered some deep satisfaction in the early days of our dark ages. Perspective | Turns out the Trump era isn’t ‘1984.’ It’s ‘King Lear.’ 2017-05-28T04:00:00Z Her newest novel, “Zed,” doesn’t answer these questions, but rather asks them over and over again, until what begins as a familiar addition to the dystopian or techno-horror genres becomes far stranger and more appealing. Review | A technocratic society unravels in Joanna Kavenna’s ‘Zed’ 2020-01-12T05:00:00Z Mostly it feels confused, though the pieces themselves were pretty simple: dystopian tailoring and designer anoraks, accessorized with slashes and asymmetry, accented with police-tape yellow and a melting flower photo print. Diary of a Cruise Season 2016-06-21T04:00:00Z His London is a dystopian hellscape riddled by sickness, injustice, cold, and want. The Ghosts of Christmas: Was Scrooge the First Psychotherapy Patient? 2015-12-24T05:00:00Z But he does make a person feel better about watching entertainment dystopian enough that we should be pedaling a stationary bike to provide the power required to broadcast it, a la “Black Mirror.” Are you watching "Love Island"? It's the feel-superior hit of the summer 2019-07-13T04:00:00Z And, more to the point, how might you combine a dystopian novella based on these questions with the work of 20 different graphic artists to form a coherent exhibition? Hari Kunzru's Memory Palace 2013-06-18T09:36:00Z Her 2011 collection, “Life on Mars,” which won the Pulitzer, is inflected with dystopian themes and tropes from science fiction. Tracy K. Smith Is the New Poet Laureate 2017-06-14T04:00:00Z George Miller’s dystopian thrill ride “Mad Max: Fury Road” took four prizes: editing, production design, costume design and hair and makeup. 'The Revenant' and Leonardo DiCaprio Win Big at BAFTA Awards 2016-02-14T05:00:00Z “It’s a dystopian future where people eat plastic. They have organs growing. And I’m a surgeon. I remove these organs.” Bonding With Léa Seydoux 2021-10-08T04:00:00Z Mr. Ishiguro published “Nocturnes,” a collection of novellas, in 2009, but his last novel was the dystopian “Never Let Me Go,” in 2005, about a group of teenagers raised to be organ donors. ArtsBeat: Kazuo Ishiguro Readies First Novel in 10 Years 2014-04-04T19:47:29Z Is dystopian fiction timely or just too much these days? Review | In Lauren Beukes’s ‘Afterland,’ a mother and son go on the run in a post-pandemic America 2020-07-23T04:00:00Z “The entire week was an implicit middle finger to Trump’s dystopian view of America,” she continued. “The Democrats had this in them all along”: Samantha Bee on the DNC’s “implicit middle finger” to Trump’s fear-mongering dystopia 2016-08-02T04:00:00Z The latest film is based on Suzanne Collins' trilogy of dystopian novels where young people fight one another to the death on live television. Hunger Games devours US box office 2013-11-25T08:24:28Z Bird, a Chinese American adolescent, is living a dystopian existence: The United States is grappling with an uptick in hate crimes and violence targeting Asians as it enforces strict policies to uphold “American culture.” 15 New Books Coming in October 2022-09-29T04:00:00Z Leah Hampton is seen dressed head to toe in the "Handmaid’s Tale" uniform, which is worn by the women of Gilead, the fictitious and dystopian society of the popular Hulu series and the original book. Couple's 'Handmaid's Tale'-inspired pregnancy announcement accused of promoting rape 2019-11-23T05:00:00Z "There are lots of different strategies for dealing with the difficulty of representing utopia," observed one member of the audience, adding: "People don't dare write utopian novels; dystopian ones are so much more fashionable." Use of Weapons by Iain M Banks 2012-08-10T21:55:06Z Instead of fusing literary fiction and reportage, “Saha” combines a dystopian thriller with a series of intimate character sketches that form a portrait of a community. A Dystopian Fable About the Unshakable Borders of Class 2022-11-01T04:00:00Z In “Bargain,” a new dystopian South Korean series on Paramount+, a man shows up at a hotel far from the city to consummate a deal. Sex, Thugs and Kidneys: ‘Bargain’ Bids to Be the Next ‘Squid Game’ 2023-10-04T04:00:00Z Translated into a dystopian future, this New Joan of Dirt serves as emblem for all the stalwart commoners in whose crushing defeat lies a kind of inviolate spiritual victory. Lidia Yuknavitch blasts Joan of Arc into outer space 2017-04-24T04:00:00Z So, if you want a post-apocalyptic story that thwarts the expectations of the dystopian genre, here it is — with a slice of artisanal cheese. Review | Jonathan Lethem’s ‘The Arrest’ imagines a kinder, gentler apocalypse 2020-11-09T05:00:00Z While definitely not as dystopian as edible goop, the lack of variety is still pretty bleak. We asked an AI to draw its favorite food. The results were bleak 2022-06-14T04:00:00Z It didn’t help that I happened to be reading Gary Shteyngart’s “Super Sad True Love Story,” a dystopian satirical novel that meshes almost too perfectly with the world envisioned by “Talk to Me.” Art Review: Art That Interacts if You Interface 2011-07-28T17:28:56Z “Station Eleven,” a quiet dystopian novel, unfolds in North America after a deadly superflu has wiped out most of humanity; a band of Shakespearean actors travels to scattered camps of survivors to perform plays. Shortlists for National Book Awards Announced 2014-10-15T04:00:00Z The most prolific writer of our age has penned a dystopian novel for our times. Perspective | The 10 books to read in November 2018-10-30T04:00:00Z If Galliano had ever been tempted to ease up on his treatment while in detox, this dystopian allegory of extreme aversion therapy might get him back on track. John Galliano: the books he should have read in rehab 2013-06-05T11:50:27Z “I may not be the first Jew to write a dystopian novel,” Levinson says, stabbing my pancakes with his fork. “Tell Me How This Ends Well”: Tricky gods, sex slaves and patricidal Jews 2017-05-28T04:00:00Z But I wonder why it is that we want to call it dystopian. Clap On Your Bose, Baby, ’Cause It’s Noisy as Heck Out There 2018-02-09T05:00:00Z But such technological marvels can feel unnerving, as if they’ve been plucked from a dystopian novel. Rogue One: the CGI resurrection of Peter Cushing is thrilling – but is it right? 2016-12-16T05:00:00Z None was disappointed by the quality of the work, but each – notably Tom Maschler – proclaimed that Sillitoe's representations of working-class existence were based upon a bizarre dystopian hypothesis. Alan Sillitoe obituary 2010-04-25T14:15:00Z The Game: In this dystopian thriller based on Suzanne Collins’s novel, the government of Panem forces children and adolescents to fight to the death in a televised competition. In Films Like ‘Nerve,’ Players Become Pawns 2016-07-27T04:00:00Z Health's brand of dystopian noise fits perfectly with the darkly menacing game. OK, computer: could soundtracking games be the future for bands? 2012-05-25T15:31:00Z The 10-year anniversary of “The Hunger Games,” which popularized young adult dystopian trilogies for the masses. From ‘Fire and Fury’ to a ‘Crazy Rich’ resurgence: The biggest book news of 2018 2018-11-13T05:00:00Z To generations of Americans with even a passing acquaintance with contemporary art, the Keane name raised images of sad children trapped in dystopian worlds of deprivation and misery. Margaret Keane, Painter of Sad-Eyed Waifs, Dies at 94 2022-06-28T04:00:00Z In part, this is because we have dystopian novel overload, a condition Jill Lepore diagnosed in The New Yorker a few years ago. In a New Dystopian Novel, the Country is AutoAmerica, but Baseball Is Still Its Pastime 2020-01-27T05:00:00Z Lionsgate has seen massive success with its similar "Hunger Games" franchise, which also follows a female protagonist in a dystopian future. 'Insurgent' could kick off with as much as $60 million 2015-03-19T04:00:00Z It opens as a dystopian novel: It’s 2038, and climate change is decimating humanity in earnest. Review | ‘Greenwood’ is an absorbing saga of families and trees — and how they survive 2020-03-29T04:00:00Z The line separating us from our dystopian future may be equally thin. Lionel Shriver Imagines Imminent Economic Collapse, With Cabbage at $20 a Head 2016-07-11T04:00:00Z Seduction doesn’t get much more dystopian than that. Philanderers, Predators and Pickup Artists: A History 2020-02-04T05:00:00Z Ghost in the Shell, her new cyborg film, is based on Japanese anime characters and features a key combat scene set in a dystopian urban lake. Scarlett Johansson, charismatic queen of science fiction 2017-03-25T04:00:00Z Mr. Tancharoen, however, largely does away with the otherworldly fluff and recasts the characters as the inhabitants of a dystopian modern world. Mortal Kombat Is Back In a Fight for the Future 2011-04-17T00:31:06Z Both are set in a dystopian future where handsome young dudes lead the charge against a repressive order. The Pop Musical: Go Big (and Loud) or Go Home 2019-11-22T05:00:00Z In the dystopian thriller the impoverished and desperate contestants who play deadly games for a chance at a huge cash prize wear simple and now iconic green tracksuits. “Squid Game” costumes are being banned from some schools for their "violent message" 2021-10-27T04:00:00Z There is a dystopian tinge to the weight of the sums. Watching Lottery Drawings in an Age of Plutocracy 2018-10-23T04:00:00Z The dystopian 1973 novel “The Bridge” is set largely in the 21st century, when environmental laws have forbidden killing of any kind — leading the human race into a form of voluntary suicide. D. Keith Mano, Christian novelist who explored extremes of sex and faith, dies at 74 2016-09-21T04:00:00Z This intricately plotted novel is set in a dystopian universe in the near future, but sometimes reads like present-day journalism. 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-02-27T05:00:00Z The Hunger Games was its own dystopian universe. Hollywood Jack-of-all-Trades Adam Shankman on His New YA Novel 2016-04-20T04:00:00Z Charles’s first film as a director was 2003’s Masked and Anonymous, a strange tale about a rock icon playing a benefit concert for a decaying, dystopian America co-written with and starring Bob Dylan. Borat director Larry Charles: why I asked terrorists to tell me a joke 2019-02-20T05:00:00Z It’s as if we were in a massage parlor where a dystopian movie is playing. Review: Slow Poses and Clouds of White Powder 2023-10-25T04:00:00Z Those are some fairly dysfunctional offices, thick with incident and intrigue and sex and therefore both a welcome escape from the grind of actual work and a space for dystopian projections. Even Superheroes Punch the Clock 2016-08-10T04:00:00Z The dreary action film “Kite” takes place in a dystopian city with an impressive range of accents and acting styles. ‘Kite’ Is Based on Yasuomi Umetsu’s 1998 Anime 2014-10-09T04:00:00Z This newspaper has already detailed how Trumpism was cloned from Lewis’s dystopian satire. Analysis | The novel that inspired ‘Blade Runner’ didn’t predict our current reality, but these writers did 2019-12-17T05:00:00Z The Bone Season also has pivotal scenes set in London and Dublin, and hints of a dystopian world far beyond. Fantasy author on Oxford's influence 2013-08-20T10:24:51Z An epic dystopian portent of the cursed Earth to come. From Blade Runner 2049 to It: Week in geek's top science fiction and fantasy films of 2017 2017-12-26T05:00:00Z There’s a strangely paradoxical and dystopian quality to these visions, which are at once wholly human and inhuman. ‘Earth’ Review: Humanity Is Digging Its Own Grave 2020-01-08T05:00:00Z Even The Handmaid's Tale takes place in a dystopian near future. As Television Expands, the Emmys Are Becoming a Battlefield 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z Mr. Bong, the critically acclaimed director of the dystopian thriller “Snowpiercer” as well as “The Host,” which is set in Seoul and stars a man-eating river monster, is not your average tour guide. Seoul’s Hundred Faces 2015-07-23T04:00:00Z Looking ahead, we’re entering the uncomfortable era when many “futuristic” movies are set – usually of the dystopian, apocalyptic, “you really don’t want it to turn out like this” variety. From Blade Runner to Rollerball: did cinema's sci-fi dystopias predict the future? 2017-09-25T04:00:00Z ‘COUNTERPART’ Two types of thrillers — the paranoid Cold War and the dystopian science-fiction varieties — are overlaid in this nifty series, which posits alternate earths that intersect in a Berlin basement. The Forecast: ‘The Americans’ Ends, J.K. Simmons Multiplies 2018-01-05T05:00:00Z The bill passed despite his veto, and now Massachusetts is a dystopian drug-addled nightmare state keeping its populace cowed with the superficial satisfactions of sex and consumption. But I’m a good Mormon wife 2012-06-01T23:00:00Z In his latest collection, the ever inventive Marcus delivers taut, bleak, dystopian stories that are disturbing and outlandish yet somehow eminently plausible. 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2018-09-06T04:00:00Z Many of you would be desperate to watch more of this strange, cold depiction of our dystopian future. Firefly to Futurama: the cancelled TV shows you are still angry about 2017-06-23T04:00:00Z The self-funded the trailer, and clips from the ambitious project — which is set in a dystopian world where a government shutdown was eminent — illustrate Crowley’s potential as a filmmaker. “A Grey State”: A right-wing conspiracy theorist films his own deadly descent into madness 2017-07-05T04:00:00Z Best known for his dystopian novel "Brave New World," Huxley predicted some of the most frightening aspects of modern society years before they came to pass. Happy birthday, Aldous Huxley! 2016-07-26T04:00:00Z This twisting, cluttered design suggests a dystopian model railway built by someone with a fondness for Dumpster diving and conspiracy theory. Identity Crisis: Theater Productions That Refuse to Be Theater 2016-09-09T04:00:00Z You wouldn’t think a movie about dystopian rebellion would inspire a lavish Hollywood premiere. At 'Mockingjay' premiere, glitz and glamour among the ruins 2014-11-18T05:00:00Z But, in the course of eight episodes, it proved to be a darker, grittier show than I’d expected, and one that resonates in uncomfortable ways with our dystopian American present. A Brazilian Thriller That Exposes the Sinister Side of Meritocracy 2017-04-21T04:00:00Z Beyond the smoothly intricate footwork, her stagecraft involved a black-and-white color scheme and an occasional nod to the dystopian future in which her music purportedly unfolds. Janelle Monáe Kicks Off Celebrate Brooklyn! 2014-06-05T04:00:00Z Donald Trump may not be a big reader, but he’s been a boon for sales of dystopian literature. Why Orwell’s ‘1984’ matters so much now 2017-01-25T05:00:00Z “It’s very 2020,” he added, meaning the act of “putting together really ad hoc solutions to a dystopian nightmare.” The inflatable pool is the official symbol of America’s lost summer 2020-07-17T04:00:00Z Just to be completely transparent: You are not in the hands of an expert on dystopian fiction. What Happens to People Who Support a Corrupt Government? 2022-10-16T04:00:00Z His feature films include the dystopian drama "Never Let Me Go" and the psychological thriller "One Hour Photo." Mark Romanek in talks to direct 'The Shining' prequel 'Overlook Hotel' 2014-07-18T04:00:00Z But don’t let that dystopian classic overshadow her new novel, “The Glass Hotel.” Review | Emily St. John Mandel’s ‘Station Eleven’ was a huge hit. Now she’s back with a different apocalypse. 2020-03-23T04:00:00Z The New Zealand director will write and produce the film adaptation of Philip Reeve’s tetralogy about a dystopian steampunk future, with his protege Christian Rivers making his debut in the director’s chair. Peter Jackson to produce film based on Mortal Engines books 2016-10-25T04:00:00Z You are also tapped for "The Power, " another very strange, dystopian, futuristic but funny story. Rainn Wilson opens up about life, death, "Blackbird" and being "#blessed" 2020-09-18T04:00:00Z Those with the broadest potential bases of support would seem to be the emotional drama This Is Us, the sci-fi sensations Westworld and Stranger Things, and the dystopian saga The Handmaid’s Tale. Here’s Who Should—and Actually Will—Win Emmys This Year 2017-09-12T04:00:00Z There is a dystopian scenario where the brain becomes open for business. ‘We will get regular body upgrades’: what will humans look like in 100 years? 2018-09-22T04:00:00Z What happens now that House of Cards has become a sunny version of the material it intended to make dystopian? How the reality of Trump's America outpaced House of Cards 2016-03-16T04:00:00Z The concentration of power in the executive branch, and Trump’s evident willingness to wield it, certainly echoes dystopian fears of “1984”-style totalitarianism. Deconstruction zone: Doubling down on dystopia, preventing the triumph of Trump’s will 2017-03-14T04:00:00Z In the memorial’s central chamber, cameramen prepared to shoot a scene of the dystopian Hulu series “The Handmaid’s Tale.” The absurdity and dread of witnessing ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ filming in D.C. 2019-02-27T05:00:00Z On the face of it, dystopian movies are the hardest sell in cinema. ‘I’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe’: what Blade Runner 2049’s dystopia tells us about 2017 2017-10-06T04:00:00Z Only something that extreme could strip away the surety and yes, cockiness, Rick had acquired through his ability to survive and even thrive in the new dystopian world. ‘The Walking Dead’ Season 7 Premiere: Negan’s Victim Is Revealed 2016-10-23T04:00:00Z This may sound, depending on your ideological orientation, more dystopian than utopian. Are We in the Metaverse Yet? 2021-07-10T04:00:00Z But if the Amazon Echo, flickering on a night table, prompts dystopian dread, the cell-phone butt dial belongs to a different genre. Rudy Giuliani and the Butt-Dialler Within All of Us 2019-11-05T05:00:00Z Here they are: “The Hunger Games,” “Catching Fire” and “Mockingjay,” by Suzanne Collins, the dystopian trilogy about a girl fighting for her live against an evil totalitarian empire. The way we read now: Top 5 e-books at Seattle-area libraries 2013-03-22T22:59:26Z The show is set in a dystopian Los Angeles overrun by aliens and warfare. What’s on TV Wednesday: ‘Castle Rock’ and ‘Colony’ 2018-07-25T04:00:00Z Its story line — teenagers in a dystopian future search for treasure inside a virtual-reality world called the Oasis — was exceedingly difficult to explain in marketing materials, especially without resorting to spoilers. ‘Ready Player One’ Overcomes Challenges to Dominate Box Office 2018-04-01T04:00:00Z In a dystopian world nearly 40 years after the second world war, what remains of Earth has been split into three superpowers after an atomic war — Oceania, Eurasia, and Eastasia. 35 Books Everyone Should Read in Their Lifetime 2015-07-22T04:00:00Z Many are set in dystopian futures and several feature children who are terminally ill. Book doctor: Are children's books darker than they used to be? 2013-06-24T16:30:35Z The novel takes place in a dystopian, nightmare version of London, in which the populace is drugged and human beings are born in incubators. Happy birthday, Aldous Huxley! 2016-07-26T04:00:00Z This work began in 2011, when Arizona State University’s president, Michael Crow, challenged Neal Stephenson, the author of several sci-fi novels, to stop writing dystopian stories, and offer ideas with a brighter outlook. Science Fiction Writers Take a Rosier View 2014-09-17T04:00:00Z The movie looks and plays like a western but also flirts with dystopian science fiction and pure pulp: bang, bang, splat. ‘Bacurau’ Review: Life and Death in a Small Brazilian Town 2020-03-05T05:00:00Z Each of the stories, which stretch from the 19th century to the dystopian future, centers on a character who, through the familiar combination of self-actualization and community, transcends barriers of the mind, body and soul. Critic’s Notebook: Toronto Film Festival’s 11 Busy Days 2012-09-15T00:32:33Z Whatever mix of instinct and serendipity produced such a vivid dystopia for such a vividly dystopian time, the shock and originality of that nowness can’t be repeated. Haunting, chillingly plausible, peerless … how The Handmaid’s Tale changed TV 2017-09-18T04:00:00Z The journey of the story is how to resolve the dystopian tension of the sunniness of “On a Roll” and reprise the Nine Inch Nails song properly. The Best Episode of the New “Black Mirror” Is a Princess Tale Starring Miley Cyrus 2019-06-05T04:00:00Z With Hoffman's character playing a significant role in the final two parts of the dystopian franchise, movie bosses will be planning how to include him - if at all. The films affected by actors' deaths 2014-02-06T07:26:14Z Drag queens, “old punks,” Michael Jackson, lazy rivers, puppeteers, and a dystopian reality game in which undesirables are eliminated by drones. New & Noteworthy, From Suffrage to Sexism 2020-02-25T05:00:00Z A world inhabited only by robots, their billionaire owners and a large and increasingly restive population is the plotline for countless dystopian fantasies, but it’s a reality that appears to be drawing closer. What if the Government Gave Everyone a Paycheck? 2018-07-09T04:00:00Z Mr. Shelley is best known for offsetting his dystopian worldview with exuberant amounts of information, true and invented. The Lower East Side as Petri Dish 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z Standish lives with his grandfather in Zone 7, in a dystopian 1950s England where violence, torture, hunger and enforced slavery are the norm. Maggot Moon by Sally Gardner – review 2012-12-28T22:55:01Z Watching this experiment in dystopian electioneering, there was little chance of that. A D.N.C. Opening Night for the New Abnormal 2020-08-18T04:00:00Z Controlling Faith, an agile rooftop runner in a dystopian but gorgeous futuristic city and utilising a fast-paced mix of parkour and martial arts, you simply swipe in different directions to run, jump and dive. Mirror's Edge 2010-06-05T23:05:00Z There’s clearly an enormous appetite for feminist dystopian tales at the moment. Margaret Atwood Will Write a Sequel to ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ 2018-11-28T05:00:00Z The pill has to be sugared with spectacle and romance, but dystopian futures perform a function. ‘I’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe’: what Blade Runner 2049’s dystopia tells us about 2017 2017-10-06T04:00:00Z “Squid Game,” the dystopian Netflix drama that exploded into an international smash hit, made history on Monday, picking up multiple drama awards. ‘Squid Game’ and Lee Jung-jae make Emmys history. 2022-09-12T04:00:00Z In the lurid 1973 dystopian thriller “Soylent Green,” Edward G. Robinson movingly played a man who embraced euthanasia, dying in a special chamber while being soothed by classical music. ‘Plan 75’ Review: Leaving Early 2023-04-20T04:00:00Z Fractured and dystopian, it’s like “Black Mirror” by way of Vine. The Playlist: The Gospel According to Alicia Keys 2016-11-04T04:00:00Z "All utopian futures are alike; each dystopian future is dystopian in its own way." "Soylent Green" scarred me with its disgusting twist ending – but scientists love its prescience 2023-04-22T04:00:00Z “I didn’t want anything that was too realistic or dystopian,” she said. Here’s What 11 TV Writers Are Bingeing 2020-05-05T04:00:00Z From its breathtaking opening, which conjures a dystopian London in a not-too-distant future, this is an action-packed thriller with a warm heart and a disturbing message about a broken society. Children's fiction prize book club: Momentum 2011-07-15T14:22:22Z This martial arts drama adapts the classic Chinese tale “Journey to the West” for a dystopian, post-apocalyptic future. What’s on TV Sunday: ‘Westworld’ and ‘Into the Badlands’ 2018-04-22T04:00:00Z In general, TV has been uniquely bad at conveying dystopian fantasies. This Show Imagines What Life Would Be Like if the Nazis Had Won World War II 2015-01-27T05:00:00Z This assault on reproductive rights is real, dangerous, and happening quickly—and it definitely has dystopian overtones. Why I set my Young Adult novel about abortion in the 1990s 2019-09-08T04:00:00Z An important precursor to "The Matrix" in the dystopian tradition and a near-classic of the 1970s European design aesthetic that Fassbinder imbibed so thoroughly, "World on a Wire" deserves consideration on its own terms. The 10 greatest "missing movies" 2011-07-20T00:30:00Z An acclaimed adaptation of George Orwell's dystopian vision on the future, "1984," is crossing the Atlantic to make its U.S. debut on the Broad Stage in Santa Monica this month. In a new era of surveillance and doublethink, '1984' takes to the stage 2016-01-03T05:00:00Z But what they are reading — horror and dystopian novels, magazine profiles of sports figures, online news articles, etc. — frequently isn’t counted in surveys as “reading.” Perspective | How to encourage teenagers — especially boys — to read this summer 2020-05-26T04:00:00Z This future is only 13 years away, as Lionel Shriver depicts it in “The Mandibles: A Family, 2029-2047,” her searing exemplar of a disquieting new genre — call it dystopian finance fiction. Lionel Shriver Imagines Imminent Economic Collapse, With Cabbage at $20 a Head 2016-07-11T04:00:00Z There was a time when the words “dystopian” and “futuristic” were nearly synonyms, but even the most alarming events in Marcus’s genre-roaming book seem no more than five minutes from now. Are Ben Marcus’s Dark and Disturbing New Stories the Literary Answer to ‘Black Mirror’? 2018-08-31T04:00:00Z “Mockingbird,” which garnered a Nebula nomination, is set in a dystopian future where people have forgotten how to read. Review | Let’s talk about fantasy and science fiction books that have fallen off the radar 2021-01-12T05:00:00Z It’s a divorce novel and a state-of-the-Jewish-soul novel and running below it, like a headline news ticker, is a plausible dystopian nightmare. ‘Here I Am,’ Jonathan Safran Foer’s Tale of a Fracturing Family 2016-09-06T04:00:00Z I wanted not to do this dystopian vision of the future where we're overrun by robots because . "Veep" creator on trading the Oval Office for lawless space in HBO's wacky comedy "Avenue 5" 2020-01-19T05:00:00Z Mr. Riley adds a touch of loopy surrealism when Cassius pops into the homes of his marks, and drops hints of dystopian satire in the form of advertisements for a company called Worry Free. Review: ‘Sorry to Bother You,’ but Can I Interest You in a Wild Dystopian Satire? 2018-07-02T04:00:00Z However, this dystopian drama isn't about the spectacle of chaos but how that chaos brings out the best and worst of those enduring it. "Y: The Last Man" presents a fascinating dystopia that probes the artifacts of our gendered world 2021-09-14T04:00:00Z Lots of things happen, of course, as per the dystopian rule book, but for all the jumping and scaling of heights, the movie remains grounded. Movie Review: In ‘Divergent,’ Jolted Awake by Fear and Romance 2014-03-20T14:31:38Z Coin is the leader of the rebel alliance against the dictatorship running the fictional capital city Panem in the novel's dystopian future setting. Julianne Moore joins cast of 'The Hunger Games: Mockingjay' 2013-09-13T21:33:18Z But it’s not as if great roles for women in dystopian visions and alien invasion movies are anything new. Mad Max: Fury Road's strong women won't surprise true genre fans 2015-05-15T04:00:00Z Unlike the video itself, which at nine minutes of gruelling, dystopian terror, is nasty, brutish and quite long. Does MIA's Born Free video overstep the mark? 2010-04-28T10:30:00Z “Jupiter Orbiting,” the latest work from Pether, exists in a dystopian sci-fi milieu populated by many colorful toys that he examines as if artifacts from a strange, happier world. 12 Dance Performances to See in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-01-03T05:00:00Z Once, an ancestral portrait heavy with generational weight might have hung in that spot, but this being a gently dystopian tale it’s the faces of the descendants who flicker there. Movie Review: Frank Langella in ‘Robot & Frank’ 2012-08-17T15:03:02Z Look out for her, too, in dystopian sci-fi Ready Player One. From Alden Ehrenreich to Zazie Beetz: the 40 rising film stars of 2018 2017-12-28T05:00:00Z Of last weekend's new offerings, the dystopian vampire drama Daybreakers and the Michael Cera comedy Youth in Revolt lost way more than half their original grosses to pratfall out of the top 10. 2010-01-17T22:10:00Z Gosling’s K is by no means reduced to a social justice warrior of the future, but the theme of enslavement has been strong in recent dystopian movies. ‘I’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe’: what Blade Runner 2049’s dystopia tells us about 2017 2017-10-06T04:00:00Z The Handmaid’s Tale and Westworld are not dissimilar in the broadest ways: dystopian tales of a credible near-future, wrecked by carelessness and male delusions. Haunting, chillingly plausible, peerless … how The Handmaid’s Tale changed TV 2017-09-18T04:00:00Z Many Japanese are familiar with Ishiguro’s 2005 dystopian novel “Never Let Me Go” through its dramatisation in a local TV series last year, though the fact that Ishiguro wrote the work was less known. 'Who's Kazuo Ishiguro?' Japan asks, but celebrates Nobel author as its own 2017-10-06T04:00:00Z “And I wish we were sitting here talking about this dystopian fictional world, and how glad we are that we’re not in that, because we have a female president. I wish that were the conversation.” Elisabeth Moss on The Handmaid’s Tale: 'It is a feminist story' 2017-06-10T04:00:00Z Carson has been telling stories about a dystopian future ever since he got into politics. Ben Carson, or the tale of the disappearing Cabinet secretary 2018-02-05T05:00:00Z On a certain level, “The Answers” is a dystopian project; it borders on science fiction. ‘The Answers’ Runs Down the Rabbit Hole of Love 2017-05-30T04:00:00Z Opening wide this week, "The Maze Runner" follows a group of teens in a dystopian world, and the maze they confront. 10 bookish movies coming in September 2014-09-19T04:00:00Z Ms. Hegarty’s rendering of her bathroom walls with the rot so fully in command offers an intimately dystopian vision. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2018-12-19T05:00:00Z To take stock of the present, carve out a day for Hulu’s ballyhooed, chillingly timely adaptation of Margaret Atwood’s dystopian classic “The Handmaid’s Tale”—even though we all know how this one ends. Weekly Culture Review: “The Handmaid’s Tale,” the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, and More 2017-04-28T04:00:00Z It represents a new wave of dystopian and surrealist fiction from Middle Eastern writers who are grappling with the chaotic aftermath and stinging disappointments of the Arab Spring. Middle Eastern Writers Find Refuge in the Dystopian Novel 2016-05-29T04:00:00Z You know people do like stories about vampires and there are very successful franchises and TV shows based on them or dystopian worlds. Fault in Our Stars is a 'real story' 2014-06-18T04:00:00Z |
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