Cristian Tamas
‘Extraction 2’ Has Wrapped Filming After 5 Months of Snowy Sets
Actor and comedian Jim Carrey says that the fastest he ever said yes to a role was 1998’s The Truman Show, in which he played mild-mannered insurance salesman Truman Burbank. The dramatic comedy tells the story of a man whose day-to-day life is secretly fabricated for a TV audience. Everything from Truman’s wife to his friends to the neighborhood he lives in is part...
FEVER DREAM – A BEAUTIFUL AND BONKERS FUTURE CULT CLASSIC
“There's an oppressive malevolence to Peruvian director Claudia Llosa's adaptation of Samanta Schweblin's novel that seeps through Fever Dream like a slow-acting poison. Perplexing...
“ANNA”, ITALIAN SF TV SERIES
“Anna” is an Italian science fiction TV series of 2021 (based on a SF novel by the Italian writer Niccolò Ammaniti, published in 2015),...
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IS NEITHER ARTIFICIAL NOR PARTICULARLY INTELLIGENT
“AI systems put power in the hands of the already powerful. What we see time and again, from facial recognition to tracking and surveillance...
THE SPIRIT OF THE AGE: WHY THE TECH BILLIONAIRES WANT TO LEAVE HUMANITY BEHIND
Jeff Bezos and his contemporaries are using their fortunes to achieve God-like ambitions for the future.The American novelist F Scott Fitzgerald once wrote: “Let...
DUNE VS. FOUNDATION
“Foundation” is a fictional world grounded in logic, whereas “Dune” is one grounded in large, philosophical ideas.Asimov is very disinterested in the individual characters...
“STARS BETWEEN”, A SF OPERA PREMIERE
A new 20-minute opera, Stars Between, with a libretto by SF writer E. Lily Yu and music by Steven K. Tran, is now available on...
PREMIO IMAGINACIÓN Y FUTURO (IMAGINATION AND FUTURE) AWARD – MEXICO
MEXICONA, the first Mexican virtual convention of speculative fiction, presented the Premio Imaginación y Futuro (Imagination and Future Award) “to celebrate, recognize and uplift...
2021 THE GALACTIC IMAGINARIUM FILM FESTIVAL
One of the few SF and Fantasy Film Festivals in Eastern Europe, that brings a fresh concept of gathering together, through live video streaming,...
“THE TRUTH AND OTHER STORIES” BY STANISLAW LEM
The Truth and Other Stories by Stanislaw Lem, translated from the Polish by Antonia Lloyd-Jones; Foreword by Kim Stanley Robinson (MIT Press, September 14th...
THE TRUTH IS STILL OUT THERE: IS IT TIME TO TAKE ALIENS MORE SERIOUSLY?
“The Pentagon has been quietly investigating unidentified flying objects since 2007. The fact that they think they might exist is good news to those...
A Former Leftist Icon Turns to Science Fiction
"As Greek finance minister, he made a name for himself for standing up to Germany. But his political star burned out quickly.Now, Yanis Varoufakis...
THE 19th INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS OF DANSES MACABRES AND MACABRE ART IN GENERAL, 9th-12th of September 2021, Bucharest, Romania
“The Danse Macabre (from the French language), also called the Dance of Death, is an artistic genre of allegory of the Late Middle Ages...