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Sci-fi series The Lazarus Project makes time travel Armageddon bingeworthy viewing
Mines all our fears about viral Armageddon, nuclear escalation, financial disaster, and environmental catastrophe.
Westworld’s new season feels like a much more normal TV show – at least… initially
It doesn’t just dish out futuristic landscapes, robots, and technology it still also has ideas. Lots of them.
How to watch creepy British mystery series The Midwich Cuckoos in New Zealand
The creator of The Night Manager returns with an uncomfortably spooky mystery series.
Spiderhead offers cerebral sci-fi thrills—and a fun villainous role for Chris Hemsworth
Consider it “weekend viewing” rather than “future classic.”
Pixar’s promising Lightyear quickly nosedives into disappointment
Pixar’s latest effort is a disappointing experience, though not a disaster.
The top 20 science fiction movies to watch on Netflix
There’s plenty of sci-fi awesomeness to watch.
Something feels different: 6 of the best film and TV multiverses
It’s a wonderful life…especially when you can ditch your boring reality for a spicy parallel one.
Russian Doll returns with a satisfyingly bonkers second season
Natasha Lyonne continues to be terrifyingly cool as she does the time warp again.
Win a double pass to A24’s existential sci-fi After Yang
Get ready to contemplate the nature of life, love and technology.
Trippy neo-western Outer Range has arguably the best use of Josh Brolin yet
Not only does it honour the western genre, it’s also a work of super trippy science fiction.
Retrospective: sci-fi classic Silent Running is a better film about eco-activism than Don’t Look Up
This insanely beautiful film has never been more relevant.
Action-packed Halo series nails the sights and sounds of the iconic games
We take a peek under the helmet of the new live-action Master Chief, hearing from the series’ stars.
Night Raiders is a confronting sci-fi allegory about the treatment of Indigenous peoples
This insight into continued injustices somehow lacks dramatic conflict or complexity.
Ryan Reynolds can’t save flimsy Netflix sci-fi The Adam Project
The movie feels like an undercooked mush of better time-travel films.
Star Trek: Picard season 2 is a grand return for everyone’s fav geriatric space Captain
Expect Borgs, Klingons, Romulans, the Starfleet Academy and the most iconic bald scalp in the galaxy.
Retrospective: RoboCop has badass 80s action and brutal social commentary
“Your move, creep.”
Learn more about Raised By Wolves from its creator and stars
“Yeah, the suits, man… I think I’ve got the smell of lube out of my skull, so it’s all good.”
Moonfall has the ludicrous plotting and F-the-world-up moments you’d expect
It’s exactly what you expect, if perhaps not quite as earth-shattering as maybe one would hope.
Raised By Wolves is back, picking up from a crazy first season of sci-fi
So much crazy stuff happened in the first season, we almost don’t know where to begin.
The Matrix Resurrections is really good – and it’s also outrageously bananas
Wildly literal commentary on sequels and reboots is more weird, more self-aware, more fun.
Revisiting the Wachowskis – some of the best, worst, and wildest films of recent decades
A return to the Matrix universe prompts a fresh look at the sisters’ hugely ambitious career.
The comfort of watching pandemic saga Station Eleven during the COVID-19 pandemic
With an emphasis on exploring humanity over misery, it’s a a calming reflection on current times .