apocalyptic fiction
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These Transformers Sequels Are… Man, They’re a Lot
The live-action Transformers movies aren’t really what you’d “beloved.” Despite making a lot of money, most of them aren’t especially well-regarded critically, and fans of the original property don’t exactly take to them well. They occupy a weird space in Hollywood wherein those initial five movies actively didn’t care in any fashion about being disliked.…
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Steven Spielberg Heroically Told Michael Bay to Stop Making Transformers Movies
Michael Bay has regrets. During a press interview for his upcoming film Ambulance, the director revealed that the significantly better director Steven Spielberg once advised him to stop making Transformers films, advice I desperately wish Bay had taken. What’s surprising to me is that Spielberg only told him this after making the third movie in…
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Station Eleven’s New Trailer Reveals a Strangely Uplifting Apocalypse
Despite the fact that most of the world’s civilisation has died off from a super-flu, the survivors who star in HBO Max’s adaptation of Station Eleven seem to be in pretty good spirits about the whole thing. In a new trailer, one man (played by David Wilmot) even says to the group of survivors he’s…
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The Major Sci-Fi, Fantasy, and Horror Anniversaries of Autumn 2021
Let’s face it. We’re all old. Even if that’s not technically true, there’s always something a person can say or do to make you feel that way. One of those is when we realise a movie we feel an affinity for is way older than we remember it being. The best course of action? Use…