Tagged dystopia

In this new series of articles, our writers are watching classic films for the first time. Here we have Robert catching up on Terry Gilliam’s Brazil. Earlier this year, bizarro director and ex-Monty...

Thracian gladiators. Highland knights. Petulant teenagers. These are the kinds of people who are born to lead revolutions. Courageous defiance comes with the territory of being a sword bearing, bow-wielding...

We honestly couldn’t tell you what happens in Mute. And that’s not a spoiler warning. Alexander Skarsgård is a mute bartender searching for his missing girlfriend, Paul Rudd is a black-market surgeon and...

There are certain stories that only animation can tell properly: the tale of a roomful of toys reuniting with their owner, a clownfish’s journey to find his son, or a version of Hamlet featuring lions. Now...

16 year-old Thomas (Dylan O’Brien) wakes with no memories in ‘The Glade’, surrounded by boys hardened by years fighting for survival in their little community. Fighting what? Surrounding them sits the...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1CTesYaduBA&safe=active For those of us who grew up with the amusing antics of Wallace and Gromit, Balance can feel like the eerie, ghost-like shadow that haunts the dark...

Welcome to another edition of Maybeland, where we explore some of the cinematic visions of the future. Here we examine the right-wing religious tyranny of The Handmaid's Tale. The U.S. is no more -...

There aren't enough expletives or adjectives to express quite how much you need to see Fury Road. Its brutal war-torn world, built on the liquid viscera of blood, milk and oil, is a dystopia; but the future...

You know what best symbolises an apocalypse? Fire. Ideally with a dash of brimstone. Spurting from the ground for no discernible reason, springing from pockets with an obscure source, burning continuously in...

Barbarella (1968) is campy '60s madness – hilariously dirty, adorably silly and oddly captivating. In the far future, humanity has moved past sex, war and jealousy and created a universal harmony of love -...

As is customary in dystopian cinema, it is hard to figure out what Kurt Wimmer’s Equilibrium (2002) is in favour of as opposed to what it condemns. Starring Christian Bale as John Preston (most likely no...

The Hunger Games hasn’t given birth to twins. Instead, it has stretched out the limbs of its concluding chapter to the point of cracking dislocation. The bite of the adaptation’s first instalments has...

Logan’s Run (1976), starring Michael York as the titular Logan-5 and Jenny Agutter as the titillating Jessica-6, is a sublime '70s disco-era false-utopia flick that is in turns terrific fun and troublingly...

In 2027 the youngest human on Earth is killed. None will come after him. They’ve all stopped: there are no more pregnancies, no more births, no more babies, and no answers. In the chaos of the 18 years since...

There's one major problem for Divergent, and it begins with T, H, and G. In a world where "Katniss Everdeen" was just a meaningless string of syllables, this teen-centric adventure might just about get by; but...