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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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Upside Down (2012)
Upside Down is a fantasy-romance film written and directed by Juan Diego Solanas. Starring Jim Sturgess and Kirsten Dunst, the film is about a man searching an alternate universe for a long-lost love from his youth. Adam (Sturgess) is an ordinary guy in an extraordinary universe. He lives humbly trying to make ends meet, but his romantic spirit holds on to the memory…