Tag: dystopia

Can a place be tainted by the actions of those who inhabited it before, a sickness seeping into the foundations and the walls, like damp turning to mould,

A ruined world of derelict high-rises, the stains of the rising smoke blackening the holes where the windows once were, dust clogs the air as a rusted van

A film of more adjectives than sense, Burst City (爆裂都市, Bakuretsu Toshi) is a Japanese dystopian punk rock musical of disenfranchised youth displaced by the machinations of the

The eighties are remembered as an era of excess and success, but like the crumbling pyramids of Egypt or statues of slave traders waiting to be toppled it

A novelist whose friends included Dorothy L Sayers and Virginia Woolf, Muriel Jaeger’s name is not so well known or celebrated, possibly because her output was less prolific

In matching uniforms of modest decorum the girls walk down the sterile corridors to their dormitory in Lily Hall, playing cat’s cradle, taking their vitamins, scrubbing and anointing

In the avenues and alleyways of Los Angeles, trouble is brewing; it is June 2028 and the water supply has been cut off by Clearwater, and predictably and

If horror reflects the fears of the time it is made, then the three films which comprise The Purge are a terrible indictment of modern America, the first

Forty years after original release, it is the violence for which Rollerball is remembered; ironic then, that in the promotional materials at the time of release director Norman

Riding on the crest of a wave of box-office success in the USA, The Maze Runner now hurtles into multiplexes nationwide, the latest in an increasingly desperate succession