Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. “It’s just work.” Or so Mark (front right) dared to suggest to his boss in Severance. Credit: Apple TV+ As I write, I am ...

Polish directing duo Helena Ganjalyan and Bartosz Szpak make an auspicious debut with this enigmatic drama about a trio of young women whose comfort comes at a cost. Appealing primarily to ...

The CBC radio commentator over the weekend chirped optimistically of the latest presidential perfidy, “Well, (U.S. President Donald) Trump won’t be around in four years, so…” *Billed as $4 ...

In the summer of 2021, a 22-year-old man named Jake Davison walked out into the streets of Plymouth and shot four people with a pump-action shotgun. He had already killed his own mother with the ...

The Electric State isn’t about dystopia. It’s the dystopia itself. Dir: Anthony Russo, Joe Russo. Starring: Millie Bobby Brown, Chris Pratt, Ke Huy Quan, Jason Alexander, Woody Harrelson ...

With demagogues, oligarchs and dictators rising like the sea levels, it seems that state powers around the globe are increasingly being used to benefit the few rather than the many, putting the ...

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HOW DO YOU concoct a plausible fictional near-future, in which people’s reliance on technology has gone too far? If you read “The Dream Hotel”, a gripping new novel, you can discern one recipe.

The Russo brothers’ upcoming Netflix movie The Electric State may be set in an alternate ‘90s dystopian reality, but stars Stanley Tucci and Giancarlo Esposito say that the movie’s themes of ...

From the leadership of philosopher-kings to state-controlled education, it’s worth seeing whether his proposals represent a utopian dream of a society or a dystopian nightmare. This, of course, is ...