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ISRA 88 or Mission 88 (Thomas Zellen 2016)
There is no lack of hyperspace travel movies nowadays. From kitschy over-designed PASSENGERS to such small and probably mostly ignored lean budgeted space-travel fictions as ISRA 88. Featuring a cast of two – a marvelous Lt. Col. Casper van Dien (Starship Troopers, Thrill Seekers) blunt & uniquely dedicated science officer and a couch potato…
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The Man in the High Castle (TV series season 1&2 after 1962 book by Philip K Dick)
Arguably The Man in the High Castle is the TV series of a particular alternate moment in our history. It is as if the popularity this series enjoys is just one facet of a constant up-swell, not only a dilation of the Overton Window that now celebrates identity politics, but also a genuine ‘hyernormalization’ of nationalism, islamophobia,…
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PARALLELS 2015
Parallels is a recent sci-fi movie based on a story by Leona and Laura Harkom. It is by all means a minor movie, maybe the least one to attract attention or enter the competition for the most innovative indie science fiction movie of the year. Nevertheless, I want to thank V Leac for pointing this…
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World on a Wire (Welt am Draht 1973)
File this recently rediscovered, forgotten and restored movie under visionary retrofuturistic visions, mind hacks and cybernetic paradoxes. Rainer Werner Fassbinder was always a big enigma for me and I can’t say I was able to see many of his movies. But this is one might easy make it into the top 10 sci-fi movies I’ve…