Sentences with word «dystopia»

The two teens, Natalie and Bella, talked about their lack of interest in the overabundance of dystopia in the market.

Homefront: The Revolution throws players into a near future dystopia where catastrophic events have brought the United States to its knees and enabled the Korean People's Army forces to impose...

But 2015, like every year before it, was brimming with quality cinema, whether it was in telling stories of futuristic dystopias where gas and water are at a premium, of dogged journalists hunting down the truth behind decades of sexual scandals in the Catholic Church, of human emotions personified, or real - life psychological experiments.

Hugh Howey's Wool is a proper futuristic dystopia in which the dead don't eat the living but rather harbour the secrets of what has gone before; secrets to be picked at and peeled away piece by piece to unveil the true horror of the world.

If your only complaints about «Marvel's Inhumans» were «Hawaii looks too pretty» and «not enough speeches,» here's a grimmer, talkier comic - book dystopia for you, maniac.

And perhaps Lofland is the same, as his second film confirms the fact that this kid can act, that he's more than just his accent, and that perhaps a new wave of young stars who don't rely on teenage dystopia as a route to fame is on its way.

They investigate visions that have turned out to be illusions or utopias that have become into dystopias.

I put my YA dystopia on hold to take part in NaNoWriMo for the first time.

Set in a 1980's style cyberpunk dystopia with a pleasing neon aesthetic and a fantastic synth - pop soundtrack Kill To Collect makes a great first impression.

If there's one thing we can all agree on, it's that reality TV in the post-apocalyptic dystopia of the future is brutal.

Lucile Hadzihalilovic's unforgettably unsettling Evolution is set on a rustic island somewhere off the coast of France, perhaps in the stretch of azure sea between the YA dystopia of The Giver and the chilly urban streets of Under the Skin.

Gotham is a name first - used for New York in the early 19th century, which then went on to become popular when Bill Finger used it in his Batman series — which has led to Gotham being understood as a metropolis both imaginary and real, a gothic - meets - science - fiction dystopia where superheroes fight supervillains on the rooftops of the common people.

The good news is that we are not on the verge of what the Boston Globe has called a «Matrix - like cyberpunk dystopia» in which we all become robohumans, controlled by implants that «impose false memories» and «scan for wayward thoughts.»

Director Drake Doremus («Like Crazy») chats about the sci - fi dystopia of «Equals,» its stars Nicholas Hoult and Kristen Stewart, and the self - taped audition that set the bar.

So far, the French e-book hasn't seen much love, but the German book has been selling fairly well for a young adult dystopia n book.

Join androids 2B and 9S and their ferocious battle to reclaim a machine - driven dystopia overrun by powerful machine lifeforms.

This isn't dystopia, as many think; it's a news report from 2014.

Why our future Orwellian dystopia will stem more from rabid paparazzi than a surveillance state

There are so many complexities to the levels of understanding of the future and the way in which it is represented, that this film, for all its dullard sensibilities and lewd language, is as thought provoking as any film about dystopias and the erosion of our societal standards.

At this point, a Mad Max - style dystopia seems like a more appealing Australian setting than what we actually have.

At heart, Triple 9 is a nihilistic adventure set in a disturbing, urban dystopia filled with nothing but untrustworthy backstabbers.

Masterfully Crafted Story and Characters — The game tells the story of androids and their ferocious battle to reclaim a machine - driven dystopia overrun by powerful weapons known as machine lifeforms

Like any good»70s sci - fi yarn, Double Fine's new side - scrolling metroidvania is bathed in lava lamp neon, shellacked with a thick layer of self - aware goofiness, and rooted in a near - future dystopia ruled by an evil supercomputer.

The team at Creative Assembly made something very special here: their love of the first (and best) movie is clear in every texture, in every retro - future UI element, in every tiny story of a corporate dystopia gone even further to hell.

Thanks to one video sent to Jalopnik, we can see that the future envisioned by LeEco CEO Jia Yueting — the man backing electric startup Faraday Future — is straight up dystopia, with parents held back from their families,...

If dystopia comes to America, it will come from you leftists, unequivocally.

It's also a future dystopia movie — sorry, I meant to mention that part earlier.

Titles like Cat's Cradle and Slaughterhouse Five are unrelentingly dark, but the societies are not true dystopias.

Speaking of Bioshock, the environments certainly deserve their comparisons to everyone's favorite steampunk underwater dystopia of Rapture.

Cinematographer Roger Deakins made light come alive in this fictional dark dystopia world with contrasting pools of light moving and transforming differently in almost every scene.

If much sci - fi is about the philosophical question of what it means to be human, or of imagining dystopia to comment on the politics of today, Arrival takes a more personal, emotive approach to the genre.

Using appropriation more pointedly, works from Martha Rosler's powerful Bringing the War Home: House Beautiful series (1967 - 72) juxtapose images from lifestyle magazines with found Vietnam War photography to wrench a distant, all - too - real dystopia into the living rooms of middle - class Americans.

Just as the phoenix rose... okay, it's only fiction, but just as Jesus rose... no, that's fiction too, well, anyway, the fictional Christian nation of Ameristan will rise like the Jesus Zombie Bird in the fictional future to create a fictional dystopia.

Starring Alexander Skarsgard as a mute bartender, alongside Paul Rudd and Justin Theroux, the film screams out its Blade Runner influences, and no better time to release a futuristic dystopia coming off the heels of Blade Runner 2049.

The Brexit Secretary at least now promises it won't be «a Mad Max - style dystopia», which you might think was setting the bar a little bit low.

The Patchogue Arts Council is proud to present Dystopia, a group exhibition featuring the artwork of Detlef E. Aderhold, Anu Annam, Krystle L. DiNicola, Lisa Harden - Stone, Gina Ienopoli, Jaynes Johnes, Linda Louis, Melissa Maiello, Andrea Manning, Tommy Mintz, Ben Owens, Michael Sauer, Mark Strodl, Syelios Stylianou, Chris Vivas, Joan Weiss and Nechana Winston.

It's always happy hour in this slice - of - life dystopia Most games today put you in the shoes of the valiant knightly figure saving the world, or the jaded antihero caught up in global -LSB-...]

THE GLOBE AND MAIL, Toronto: China's High - tech Dystopia Teeters on 50 Million Frustrated Bureaucrats (Opinion)

Wes Anderson's dog - filled dystopia arrives, Christian Bale does Dick Cheney, and gay - conversion therapy stories show alongside supernatural thrillers

Where does a prophet of dystopia go after predicting something like that?

Titled Dystopia, the show will include new paintings, drawings, installations and exterior murals.

Drawing on Fritz Lang's film Metropolis (1927), Bercea's images oscillate between dystopia and utopia.

Drawing on the nineteenth century European Romantic tradition, the show surveys contemporary and historical connections to wonderment and dystopia at dusk, twilight, night and dawn.

His conclusion wasn't far off from the one I reached when I wrote about Dave Eggers» new tech dystopia novel The Circle, namely that there's less and less separating the so - called new business of tech from the old business of, well, business.

But it's also a boldly attempted strike against the monolithic corporatization of fan service, and arguably one of the few films that defines dystopia as nothing less than a marketplace of trademarked, cross-promotional intellectual property.

Takeback Mode looks to be a nice wrinkle to arena / lane combat, and the fact that the whole mode is about securing as much money as possible fits the corporate dystopia narrative of the game nicely.

His use of captured movement creates a suspended dreamlike space that, while written in recognizable forms, transforms into a surreal dystopia when combined with hyper - real depictions of anonymous modern spaces.

Unlike some recent anti-tech jeremiads (including Keen's two earlier books), the author portrays our current Internet dystopia in a larger context of human history.