Gattaca
{5/5} “If you’re going to pretend like you don’t care, don’t look up.” Gattaca, released in 1997 Vincent is on track to go into space — to Titan. But he does a lot of extra things every day that people don’t know about to ensure that happens. His DNA is genetically inferior, so he makes […]
Away (season 1)
{5/5} “The three-quarter mark is the hardest part of the journey… You and I are aware of that; we have no idea how it feels. Emma’s 20 million miles from the people she loves.” Away season 1, aired in 2020 Emma is commander of the first mission to Mars, launching from the base on the […]
Up Against It
{4.5/5} “The feral was in danger. Executioners had registered its protoconscious activity. The feral was made up of life-support routines, though, and imbued with high levels of system permissions. It outran its executioners, ran traces and saw that routines lethal to its continued function were triggering all around — computational landmines, algorithmic hails of bullets. […]
Minority Report
{5/5} “Where’s my minority report?” Minority Report, released in 2002 John Anderton is chief of the Precog crime unit in Washington DC. The precogs are three people with an unusual talent — they can see murders in the future. Now they say that John himself will commit a murder — he will shoot a man […]
Landscape with Invisible Hand
{4.5/5} “We could always consider doing a courtship broadcast.” Landscape with Invisible Hand, released in 2023 Adam befriends the new kid in class, Chloe. He even invites her and her family over to stay the night, because they don’t have a place to live. Their former teacher, a human, killed himself because he lost his […]
Dual Memory
{4.5/5} “Ships in port start to light up in the sunset, and at random their lights blink off and on. Machines are on our side, right? No, they’re on their own side, which happens to be ours. Our world isn’t ours, even if it’s the world we made. I know that. No one else does. […]
The Island
{4.4/5} “The whole reason you exist is because everyone wants to live forever. It’s the new American dream.” The Island, released in 2005 Most of the Earth’s population has been wiped out by disease, and the people who are left live in a very structured society. They eat what they’re told, work on what they’re […]
A Bridge of Years
{4.5/5} “He had come here from a world of disappointment and miscalculation; in its place he had discovered a pocket universe of optimists and cynical romantics… They believed in a future the couldn’t define, only sense — used words like ‘justice’ and ‘beauty,’ words that betrayed their own fundamental optimism. They believed without shame in […]
Star Trek: DS9 — Prophecy and Change
{5/5} “Every one of us is so wronged and dishonored and inflicted with the deaths of those nearest and dearest to us that we righteously believe that we have the right to strike the last blow!… But let me ask you a serious question, my fellow long-suffering Cardassian: have you thought about what this world […]
57 Seconds
{4.5/5} “We have developed the neural technology that allows you to be your best self. Without even trying. You’re still you. Just the best you.” 57 Seconds, released in 2023 Franklin manages to sneak backstage to meet his favourite tech guru, Anton Burrell, When a man tries to shoot Anton, Franklin saves his life. In […]