sci-fi
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In a totalitarian sci-fi world, a hammer thrown by a young athlete smashes a "Big Brother" figure declaiming to brainwashed citizens from a vast screen.
From Barron's • Mar. 29, 2026
One of them, XPrize & Singularity University founder and chair Peter H. Diamandis, just launched a $3.5 million fund to promote optimistic sci-fi films to counter the AI doomsday narrative.
From Salon • Mar. 26, 2026
BBC Culture film reviewer Nicolas Barber described the space epic as "a mind-stretching sci-fi" that manages to be "zippily entertaining" throughout, while Empire called it "witty, wise and preposterously entertaining".
From BBC • Mar. 23, 2026
The sci-fi blockbuster “The Matrix” inspired him to get a computer-animation associate degree, but he couldn’t find work after graduating.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 21, 2026
Thomas’s old room had thrown up in sci-fi.
From "Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence" by Sonja Thomas
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