Sentences with phrase «on dystopian»

Of course, we can always wear a respirator - type air mask and look like we're on the HAZMAT cleanup team, but what if we don't want to appear like an extra on a dystopian sci - fi movie?

Set on a dystopian Earth nearing the end of its life, The Surge offers a grim vision of our future.

Focusing on the dystopian 25th Ward, promising absolute happiness for its citizens, the base atmosphere is a mix of dystopian cyber punk and utopia.

Heather is also an English faculty member at Wenatchee Valley College, and is working on a dystopian YA novel called

Heather is also an English faculty member at Wenatchee Valley College, and is working on a dystopian YA novel called Bait.

An artful mix of suspense, fantasy and social critique, Emily Schultz's The Blondes puts a feminist twist on the dystopian stories that have been crowding fiction shelves for the last several years.

Here, however, we're focused on dystopian novels in which crime and crime - solving are central to the action.

On March 29, 2017, The Chicago Tribune published a commentary by Sam Weller entitled Without School Librarians, We're On a Dystopian Path.

I'm not big on dystopian stories either.

Cinematic adaptations of young adult novels focusing on a dystopian future are nothing new but there are thoughtful films that truly stand out in the crowd (like The Hunger Games series and The Giver) and then there are movies like Insurgent.

Fahrenheit 451, an upcoming HBO film, is based on a dystopian world, in which books are illegal.

Ready Player One's bubblegum whirlwind of pop culture nods is going to deliver a lighter, blockbuster - friendly spin on dystopian escape via cyber-reality when Spielberg's movie version of the book arrives at the end of the month.

The Handmaid's Tale focuses on a dystopian future where women are forced to live as concubines under a fundamentalist dictatorship.

The story takes place on a dystopian Earth and stars Tom Cruise as a drone repairman who holds the future of mankind in his...

In «Ready Player One,» Steven Spielberg takes on a dystopian future where video games offer the impoverished an escape.

His appearance in the 2006 film, A Scanner Darkly, based on the dystopian science fiction novel by Philip K. Dick, received favorable reviews, and The Lake House, his romantic outing with Sandra Bullock, did not do well at the box office.

Argentine filmmaker Juan Solanas makes his English language debut on this dystopian romantic fantasy thriller, which spells out its high concept quickly.

35 years after the original Blade Runner changed the landscape of big screen science fiction, Blade Runner 2049 (2017) dared build on the dystopian portrait of the ecologically devastated urban imaged on screen by director Ridley Scott and his team of designers and artists.

Their highly idiosyncratic output includes the 2012 bloody black comedy «Sightseers» and last year's «High - Rise,» based on a dystopian novel by J.G. Ballard.

I have not, but I have watched the new series on Hulu based on the dystopian novel.

Sept. 19: If you just can't get enough films based on dystopian YA novels, 20th Century Fox's The Maze Runner should provide your next hit.

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As a Valentine's Day promotion, Netflix's dystopian series «Black Mirror» has created a dating app based on «Hang the DJ,» a fan - favorite episode of the show.

To promote the movie Insurgent, the sequel to teen dystopian blockbuster Divergent, eOne (the film's Canadian distributor), Facebook and the digital creative and marketing agency Spoke - Isobar have partnered to launch two 15 - second looping ads that can be viewed on Instagram, Facebook and YouTube.

It's often easily missed when concentrating on the inevitability of IoT and any dystopian concerns.

On shelf after shelf in the Indigo bookstore downstairs, they're peddling the same story, that of a dystopian future where teens are forced to fight to the death for the amusement of adults.

To help promote its dystopian thriller The Man in the High Castle, Amazon is touting a new radio stream called Resistance Radio on Twitter and at South by Southwest.

The third book focuses on Jane and Mark Studdock, an academic couple who end up falling on opposite sides of a conflict involving the dystopian events surrounding Bracton College, a sinister corporation, and a mysterious figure dug up from the bottom of a well.

For survival to be based on literacy is not a new idea in dystopian fiction or in Atwood.

For those just joining us, Bruce Miller's television adaptation of Margaret Atwood's firebrand 1985 novel centers on the world of Gilead, a dystopian society where a Christian theocracy has forced fertile women into slavery as Handmaids.

Now 30 years later, LA has become an even - more - dystopian megalopolis, where new controls on replicants enforce their complete obedience.

Mad Max — Dystopian; Society is crumbling and fucked up but still exists The Road Warrior — Post-apocalyptic; Society has completely fallen apart and everyone is on their own Fury Road — Post-apocalyptic dystopia; A new, completely fucked up society has emerged from the rubble of the old one.

Chris, you have painted a dystopian world where we spend # 200m on a player, he gets crocked for the season, and unlike our chief rivals, we can not afford another # 200m spend, not to mention 2 lots of # 300k a week.

James Dashner, the author of «The Maze Runner,» a top - selling dystopian science fiction series that was turned into a film trilogy, has been dropped by his publisher, Random House, due to his inclusion on a list of authors who allegedly engaged in harassment.

Cuomo has committed hundreds of millions of dollars to the MTA in the 2018 budget, but Nixon is intent on turning its rusting carriages and rotting switchboards into a dystopian symbol of his administration.

A new play provides an all - too - realistic dystopian vision of the financial crash's impact on ordinary lives.

via www.buzzfeed.com - This time around, our favorite dystopian hero Thomas (Dylan O'Brien) will lead his group of escaped Gladers on their final and most dangerous mission yet.

My sister is a huge lover of dystopian novels so I will definitely pass these recommendations on to her.

By the time the platform formally launched on Thursday in Houston, the test kits had sold out, meaning there are thousands of people somewhere in Texas so fed up with Tinder they decided to take part in this fodder for a B - rate dystopian movie.

Albury Wodonga Online Dating Fear of the Unknown — You could make a particularly dystopian movie about what happened in Albury - Wodonga on the Victoria - NSW border in early 1919.

The episode offers a dystopian take on the future of online dating.

Writerly insights on far - flung fiction (and some cool science - y facts) from fairy tales and myths to dystopian fantasy and magical realism.

The plot, which is a parody of a dystopian science fiction story along the lines of Tron or The Matrix, focuses on an unexceptional mini-figure construction worker, Emmet (voiced by Chris Pratt).

And, based on the premiere, V has enough narrative drive and character definition to pull viewers into the creepy suspense of its dystopian world.

Convinced by ambitious scientist Bolivar Trask (Peter Dinklage) that the solution to the problem is to green - light a line of mutant - targeting drones called Sentinels, Tricky Dick acts with predictably self - serving expediency — and inadvertently triggers a series of events that leads to a dystopian future in which humans and mutants alike teeter on the verge of extinction.

Give or take the occasional blip on the radar (like THE DISASTER ARTIST and THOR: RAGNAROK), it's a disheartening, deflating, dystopian landscape out there, folks.

The production design of the shimmer has invited several comparisons to Tarkovsky's Stalker, a film whose influence on production design has most recently manifested in the most unexpected of places — dystopian YA adaptations ranging from Mockingjay to The Maze Runner, which have taken the otherworldly designs of «The Zone» and stripped them of their initial surreality.

With as much as they have riding on their shoulders, the fact that Minecraft: Story Mode hasn't turned into a heavy, Walking Dead-esque slog is a testament that you can still work through some deep subjects without needing to crush your audience beneath the heavy stone weight of dystopian reality.

As we learned in the first film, a dystopian future society divides citizens into factions based on their abilities — except for «divergents», who act as wild cards in the system.

«The Hunger Games: Catching Fire» By Joan Alperin Schwartz Once more we return to the dystopian world of Panem, ruled by the evil President Snow (Donald Sutherland) The film begins as Katniss Everdeen (Jennifer Lawrence) after winning the 74th Annual Hunger Games, along with her best friend and fake soul man, Peeta Mellark (Josh Hutcherson) are about to go out on a «Victors Tour» Life is good for both Katniss and Peeta... They live in comfortable houses, have all the food they could possibly want, nice clothing and are the «darlings» of Panem.

But once it's time to unleash RoboCop on the streets of a fine - looking Detroit (the dystopian touches are undercooked this time around), the movie falls into the same trap as its titular character.