Colossus: The Forbin Project (1970) Review
September 19, 2026
I have watched this more times than is defensible. A film about a computer, a requirements document and a mountain, and the machine is never once broken.
Tag: Dystopia
Dystopias are warnings wearing story costumes, and the good ones age into prophecy. This tag collects reviews of dystopian film and fiction: engineered societies, quiet horrors, and the presents each dark future was written about.
DystopiaGeorge Orwell Day: The Rules About Sentences
September 9, 2026
Orwell spent his life dismantling the class and empire he was raised inside, took a pen name so his family would not be embarrassed by his poverty, and died at forty-six. His most useful legacy to writers is not the…
AprilHate Week
June 14, 2026
Hate Week comes from Orwell's 1984. Why the novel stays relevant decade after decade, and what writers can learn from fiction that became a permanent warning.
2000sDaybreakers (2009)
June 6, 2026
The Spierig brothers imagined a near future where vampirism has won. It is a genuinely smart science-fiction idea, and for its first hour the film is a sharp dystopian satire.
DystopiaUnderworld Series (2003-2016)
June 6, 2026
The Underworld films turned the vampire into a leather-clad action hero across five entries. As a whole it is more than the sum of its uneven parts.
2020sSinners (2025)
June 6, 2026
Ryan Coogler's Jim Crow-era vampire film uses the genre to explore Black art and cultural memory. It establishes the stakes of everything that follows.
2000sIdiocracy (2006)
May 19, 2026
Mike Judge's 2006 dystopian satire. Average man wakes in 500-years-dumber future.
1920sMetropolis (1927)
May 17, 2026
Fritz Lang's 1927 German silent SF epic. The film every dystopian city movie has copied.
1990sFortress (1992)
May 17, 2026
Gordon's 1992 SF prison action film. B-movie premise, A-movie commitment from Gordon.
2010sDredd (2012)
May 16, 2026
Dredd is the rare comic book adaptation that fully understood its source material. Alex Garland wrote, between his collaborations.
1990sStarship Troopers (1997)
May 16, 2026
Starship Troopers is one of the most misunderstood films of the 1990s and one of the most accomplished political satires in mainstream science fiction. The adaptation is loose in ways that have generated decades of argument.
1990sDemolition Man (1993)
May 16, 2026
Demolition Man is one of the funniest action films of the early 1990s and one of the most accidentally prescient. Marco Brambilla directed in his feature.