Maybeland – The Handmaid’s Tale Madeline Joint June 4, 2015 Features, Independent, Maybeland 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 -...
Maybeland: Cyborg Stephen O'Nion February 17, 2015 Features, Independent, Maybeland 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...
Maybeland: District 9 Phil W. Bayles January 21, 2015 Features, Independent, Maybeland 4 Comments Ever since 1897, when HG Wells first wrote of Martians attacking London in The War of the Worlds, science fiction has dreamed up many an idea of what might happen when we finally make contact with life from...
Maybeland: Barbarella Madeline Joint January 16, 2015 Features, Independent, Maybeland 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 -...
Maybeland: Equilibrium Madeline Joint November 27, 2014 Features, Independent, Maybeland 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...
