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The Survivalist (2015 Stephen Singleton ) vs Z for Zachariah (2015 Craig Zobel)
I would like to shuttle back and forth between two recent post-apocalyptic movies: The Survivalist directed by S Singleton and Z for Zachariah by Craig Zobel. Both are very different in mood, setting, acting. Differing gender -relational triangles pull each of the end-of-the-world worlds apart: one woman and one man(The Survivalist) and two men and one
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400 DAYS (Matt Osterman, 2015)
400 Days is a true classic of the eerie, it makes it easily into my top 10 of the last years. I consider that it carries and brings to fruition the unspoken space program preparation doom of such Cold War era classics as Outer Limits or Twilight Zone. The weird is palpable – oozing, leaking
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The Thrill Seekers [aka The Time Shifters 1999]
File under: futurist adrenaline junkies, death tourism addicts, capitalist gore hounds from the year 2077. Probably this low budget sci-fi 1999 movie by Mario Azzopardi went unseen & unheard for most of you (including me). I was made aware of its existence by Zero Department member and Clinamen publisher from Geneva Lucas Cantori. He was